Whether someone is preparing for a job interview, or thinking about broader life goals, knowing your strengths and weaknesses is essential to making choices. Often times, these are asked for in job interviews or scholarship applications and teens and young adults have no idea what to say that honestly represents them. As parents, we often […]
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How can I teach study skills for middle school or high school students? Have you ever thought this? I certainly have. The teen years can present many challenges and we want to set our kids up for success! Maybe you have a child that is very intelligent but also disorganized. Maybe you have a child that
Over the last couple of years, I made a new resolution…”Be Kind to Yourself.” A year or so ago, I had to get a new driver’s license and so I had the old and the new to compare. It was clear from the two pictures that over the 4 years in between, I had started to take better care of myself.
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What is Success? Have you ever thought, “I want to be successful?” I know I have. But what is that…really? Is it having a lot of money, being well educated, having freedom, helping others….what is success? A couple of years ago, I was talking to a new neighbor and we started swapping stories about our
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Why does it matter that we talk about habits for tired moms? Who has time for that? Whether you are a mom with littles or a homeschool mom who spends all day with your kids, it’s important to take care of YOU. Does your morning sound like mine used to: Up since 4:30 after a
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Meal planning in a large family seems like it would be absolutely necessary. But for many years, we managed to get by winging it. Mostly we went to the grocery store every 2 days and made sure we bought enough for those 2 days. It resulted in us spending a lot of extra time and
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I always think it is interesting to hear how someone came up with an idea. What was the story or trigger that made them realize they could take the leap and start something new? My catalyst was a writing workshop. Like many things we do with our kids, I went hoping to inspire my daughter…to
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How can we go about overcoming obstacles to achieving goals? After all, we all have goals but something stops us from actually doing what we set out to do
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As a homeschooling mom, I started emphasizing time management with my kids when they reached junior high. By the time they were in highschool, it was expected that they would manage their time and get their school work done in a timely fashion. That worked in theory, but how that played out in real life
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Ten Minute Momentum is a place where I want to help you look at your minutes and days a little differently. For too many years, I disqualified myself from accomplishing goals. I had lots of excuses. I was busy. I didn’t have time. I had too many kids. Homeschooling and foster parenting took up all
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