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18 Cleaning Games for Kids That Make Chores Fun

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Curious about how to make chores fun? Read on for a list of awesome cleaning games for kids including some unique chores games! Moms. Dads. Grandparents. I feel ya. You see the house a wreck after Johnnie and Susie ran around, playing gleefully, absent-mindedly dropping toys left and right, changing their wardrobe about five times in ...

How Parents Can Encourage Reading at Home & Limit Screen Time

If you are looking for ways of encouraging your child to read, here's a smart way we've done summer reading incentives that also limits screen time. These tips for parents to encourage reading serve multiple purposes for both parents and kids. Try out these strategies to encourage good reading habits in your kids! One of the defining ...

The Age-By-Age Guide to Teaching Kids How to Do Laundry

Teach kids to do laundry with the following age-appropriate laundry chores so that they have all the necessary laundry skills far before the time they leave home. This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Tide at Walmart. The opinions and text are all mine. I have a large family. There will soon be seven of us. Seven bodies ...

The Fast (Yet Lazy) Way To Do Laundry Only 3 Days a Week

We are a large family of six, and it can be a daunting task to know how to do laundry fast for so many bodies. My husband likes to change his pants (at least) after work for some "chillin' shorts." And my daughters like to play dress up, and my three-year-old likes to "accidentally" get himself soaking wet at the sink, and my baby's poop ...

11 Daily Habits That Keep Your House Clean With Kids

If you want to know how to keep your house clean, I'm sharing my best tips below, so keep reading! Big thank you to Endust for sponsoring this post. Trying to keep a clean house while raising young children seems like an oxymoron. Am I right? I have not one child, not two, but four children at home with me, all day long, as we homeschool. ...

Why To-Do Lists are Overrated and What List You Need Instead

Over a year ago I took this amazing course from Elayna Fernandez, The Positive Mom, called Stepping Into Balance. She really challenged me during the course as she pushed me toward a new way of thinking about goal creation, what a balanced life looks like, what my passions and purpose are, and how to deal with anger and frustrations in new ways. ...

The Truth About Paying Kids for Doing Chores

This is a sponsored post. All opinions on should kids get paid to do chores and otherwise are my own. The other day we went to the grocery store and my 6-year-old daughter Alison brought her purse with her. As I'm loading up the vehicle to go home, she pulled out a $1 bill and offered it to me, to help pay for the groceries. While the ...

How Kids Can Unload the Dishwasher Without Breaking Anything

I am all for cleaning with awake kids, instilling the value of work, and having my children do chores. One of my five year old twins' chores is to unload the dishwasher first thing in the morning. Unfortunately, by having my young children unload the dishes by themselves, they have, on several occasions, broken cups, bowls, and plates. We've since ...

9 Ways to Speed Up Your Everyday Cleaning Routine

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #RealLifeClean #CollectiveBias I don't love cleaning my house every single day. I don't love sweeping up after just about every meal, or cleaning dishes, or scrubbing bathtubs. But, cleaning is a necessary part of life. In my experience, ...

Improve Your Family Life with a Basic Kids Chore Chart {Free Printable}

Five months ago now, I posted a picture on Instagram of our first official basic kids chore chart that I crudely made by hand, laminated, and stuck on the fridge with a magnet. One of my main goals for homeschooling for preschool this year was establishing good chore and habits in my children along with life skills. And this simple, basic chore ...

15 of the Best Parenting Tips and Articles from 2014

This year, 2014, has been a great year for me and the ole blog. Today I'm sharing my best parenting tips (in order or most traffic received according to my Google Analytics) that I've written and share in blog posts in 2014. So, if you are a new reader, I hope you'll enjoy checking them out, and getting a better feel for who I am and my parenting ...

Life Skills for Kids – How to Teach Them to Your Preschoolers

Part of the reason I chose the Preschool curriculum I did (and you should too, it's only $20!) is because it emphasized teaching life skills for kids, like making your bed, using a knife and scissors, knowing your address and more. So, it has me thinking about what life skills kids, especially preschoolers should know, and some smart ways of ...