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Why You Nag and Four Ways to Stop It
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Sometimes children (and adults) choose disobedience. They refuse to do what they're told. They delay the inevitable thinking they can avoid it altogether. So, we nag.
Nagging also might be necessary because we tell children what to do, rather than teach
Magic School Bus Science Club- For all the kids who loved to ask why.
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I'm writing today to tell you about this AMAZING , HANDS-ON, YEAR-LONG SCIENCE JOURNEY! 50% off for only 10 days!
The Magic School Bus Science Club is a 12- month science kit subscription based on the award-winning series, The Magic School Bus. If you haven't heard about the series before, each of the stories center on the antics of a frizzy-red haired fictional elementary school teacher, Ms. Frizzle, and her class, who board a “magic school bus” to take them on field trips to impossible locations, like the solar system, clouds, the past, and.....
A Study of Shakespeare's Hamlet for High School
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As part of my Shakespeare for High School series I would like to like to cover at least one tragedy and one comedy. While we have also covered Romeo and Juliet (which is also a tragedy), for the purposes of talking specifically about a Shakespearean tragedy we are going to study Hamlet.
What is a tragedy?
In a tragedy, the main character is doomed by a singular fatal flaw. Shakespeare’s tragedies feature a wide array of flaws, and these flaws.....
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- Tags: Highschool, Plays
US Elections Resources and Freebies!
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- Tags: Elections, Highschool, US Government
They will grow up. Preparping your children.
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Some days, it feels as if my young children will never grow up, and ten days feel like ten years. Some days, I blink and they are grown and graduated, and ten years flew by like ten days. So how do we create the best path for our kids from birth to life after graduation?
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- Tags: Boys, Children, Encouragement, Family, Homeschool, Motherhood, Parenting, Teens