Tag: Parenting
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Keep acts of kindness!
We had a conversation yesterday, my kids and I on ways to be kind. Since one of our family goals this year is to perform acts of kindness, I figured I would start at home. My second son wants to be more kind to his family, to dad, mom and his siblings. My daughter wants…
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Keep being true, keep being you!
The enterprise of being you, a complete individual, unique in your own way and in your own thoughts starts with being complete. I am complete on my own and in my own terms. This is the lesson for today. Keep being complete. It’s a lesson I learnt after looking at an assignment my daughter completed…
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Keep what matters for you!
On this 120th day of writing, I am in awe of how I continue to write day by day. The details, the feelings, the mood that seem to flood in my mind and into words one day at a time, is humbling. Is this how those who call themselves writers begin? I really want to…
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Keep smiling!
My baby is 6 month old today. For the past 6 months, he has filled my life with joy. Like the sweetest sweets, which lingers long after the first taste. He remains my heart’s joy, my secret treasure, my soul’s desire. I literally smile everytime I see him and he smiles back. Every moment with…
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Keep simple
We kept things simple today. Kids woke early, took their bath and wore their Christmas pjs. We all wore our pjs. Since the pandemic, my middle son has been wearing only his pjs. It’s the only thing that makes sense to him since we were home all day anyways. I used to plead with him…
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Keep the magnificence of the universe in mind!
For the first time in 800 years, my kids and I saw Jupiter in close proximity to Saturn. If you know anything about my kids, my boys in particular, you would know how deep they love the planets. In fact, on two different occasions, for Halloween, they have both dressed up as Astronauts. If you…
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Keep running your own race!
Homeschooling 2020 came to an end on Thursday/Friday. This keep is in praise of all the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncle and even friends of families that helped make it work. It’s also in praise of all children, their courage, resilience through this pandemic of a lifetime. Many may assume that because children are home that…
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Keep L.I.F.E questions in mind!
In the ‘Book of Beautiful Questions’ by Warren Berger, he provided tips for warming up your questioning muscle. One of them focused specifically on what families can do with their children using the acronym L.I.F.E. L stands for little, I stands for information, F stands for failure and E stands for Exchange. The L.I.F.E questions…
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Keep things simple!
There is something wild and powerful about choosing simplicity. It is also liberating, when choices are simple, easy and effortless by design. I have been on a purposeful progression towards simple. Especially with my family. In choosing simplicity, we went for a walk at Forest Park yesterday. The weather was beautiful for a December day…
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Keep experiencing life!
Myself and my household have reached fatigue levels when it comes to the pandemic, homeschooling and work. We are also ready for 2020 to come to an end. Nothing seems as it should. Time seems to be going neither fast nor slow and it’s only the 10th day of December. Day 31 can’t seem to…
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Keep finding flow!
I read in the book ‘Finding Flow’ by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, that our choice with life is simple. We can choose either to die or choose to live. If we choose to live, note that everything conspires against life. Everything. But still the choice is ours. The ability and will to live begins with me. Living…
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Keep wonderful moments!
We took the kids to a drive through winter wonderland last night. Every first weekend of the December was Santa day. Since we moved to St. Louis 3 years ago, we started the day with Breakfast with Santa at my children’s school. Then we drive around looking for places that evoke Christmas so as to…
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