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How to Get Your Kids to Unload the Dishwasher

July 7, 2016 By Lauren

Want your kids to start doing chores without a fight? You won't believe how easy it is!

  You know when there’s a power outage? You walk to whatever room you keep your flashlight or candle stash, and even though you know the power is out (because you’re moving with the sole purpose of finding a light source), you still flip several switches on your way from Point A to Point B purely […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: chores, kids, parenting

Keeping Screen Time Under Control: A Summer Plan

June 13, 2016 By Lauren

keeping screen time under control

Summer vacation has arrived! Days, weeks, and months of freedom stretch before us. No homework, no after school activities, fun in the sun, sibling squabbles, cries for ‘just a few more minutes’ on the iPad, clothes and toys and junk all over the house… Hold on a minute! Keeping Screen Time Under Control: A Summer […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational Tagged With: chores, kids, nagging, responsibility, screen time, summer

Meme Monday: Chores- Perception vs Reality

January 4, 2016 By Lauren

A chore is all that stands between my kid and food

Does your kid look at life this way or is it just mine? Meme Monday: Chores- Perception vs Reality   Like it? Share it! Click on the picture to bring you to Facebook. 

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: chores, food, hunger, meme monday, perception, reality

Meme Monday: Wash It or Wear It?

October 20, 2014 By Lauren

Funny Flowchart

Welcome to another edition of Meme Monday! The other day I was lamenting the fact that the laundry is NEVER done. Just when I finish putting away the last of the 20 loads I did over the weekend, there’s a whole fresh crop waiting to be washed, dried, folded, and (my least favorite part) put […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Meme Monday, Parenting Humor Tagged With: busy, chores, clothes, families, flowchart, fun, funny, laundry, public, smell, stains, wash, wear

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