Sorry I missed you last week! We decided to skip town and head to Kansas City while our house’s main floor is getting a remodel. That picture is our family at Worlds of Fun as we waited out a rainstorm that never ended.
Trip recap:
- Renting a house is my new favorite way to travel as a family!
- Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead
- Union Station Science City
- Sea Life Kansas City Aquarium
- Kids’ tablets: What parameters do you put on yours? What educational tools do you use? Audiobooks? Ebooks? How do you monitor their screen use?
- Games: What games does your family love? Are your kids good winners and losers?
New favorite thing: Donuts and drinks on the parish playground after Mass. Kids play, parents catch up. Everyone wins!
What I’ve been reading:
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- He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.
- No Greater Love by Mother Teresa (audio on Hoopla)
- Tell me More by Kelly Corrigan (audio on OverDrive) *TISSUE ALERT*
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling. It’s getting dark, not ready to say how I feel about it yet, but I need to start reading it during the day
- Nearly finished with Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Pass the tissues!
- Still working our way through the Henry Huggins audio collection (narrated by Neil Patrick Harris)
Book Buddies With Jane & Friends
- If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back to Episode 013 Starting a Kids’ Book Club
- We have our next meeting this weekend to discuss Lisa Hendey’s book, The Mystery at Midnight ( from her Chime Travelers series about twins who go back in time to solve mysteries about saints)
- Listener Sheila contacted me to say that her daughters started their own book club this summer! They already met once and are hoping to read 3 books this summer.
Catechesis programs for little ones: What do you know about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd? How does your church reach the little ones?
The Well-Behaved Child by Dr. John Rosemond check discipline system
- 6 Checks (keep track on dry erase board in kitchen)
- Checks 1-3 are warnings (“buffer zone,” limit this for older kids)
- Check 4: Lose dessert
- Check 5: Lose screens
- Check 6: Go to bed 1 hour early
Amanda wants to know how I get the kids to “work it out”
- In response to my annual summer PSA on FB to the neighbors, letting them know that they’re going to hear a lot of screaming from my house that they haven’t been hearing all winter
- Summer rules
- Bodies have private parts that stay private
- Keep your body to yourself
- Tidy up before you leave
- Work it out
- Walt’s 1st grade teacher taught them: Unless there’s blood, barf, or a bathroom emergency, you can probably handle it.
- Talk to the person you’re having a problem with. Talk to them again. And again. Ask friends for help if you need to. Come to an adult if you really can’t work it out or if it’s an emergency.
- When they come to tattle, whine, or get me to referee I say
- That doesn’t sound like an emergency. That sounds like something you need to work out with _____. Come back if it’s an emergency.
- I let them know with my body language that I’m not engaging them on it.
- They come less
- How do you help your kids learn to work it out? Do you have household ground rules that are helping everyone to have a happier summer? Send them my way! I want to hear about them!
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