In this world it is easy to believe that the average is the way to go, but I ask...

What is Average?

You know what it isn't?

A REAL Person! 

The average of 2 and 6 is 4, right?

But, guess what? 

Neither the 2 or the 6 will ever be a 4.  Never.  There will have to be compromises to 6 and 2 in order to try and be a 4.  

Let your unique you, your unique kids and your unique schooling situation echo you!

Also...

To have a successful home-based education experience isn't something that some ...

Can you imagine what it would be like to have your kids have self controlled behavior?  What about making good choices in middle, high school and college and into adulthood?

What would that peace of mind feel like for you?

The primary way our kids learn life skills and behavior is through our own actions and mimicking us. 

So, if we can walk ourselves through the steps of self mastery and show them how it works in every day situations, and walk them through the steps when they are facing some...

You know what my self talk was after I recorded this video for you?  

The world will not let me have a proper video with house work, garbage trucks, city edgers etc.  

Was that true? 

Of course not.  Just a bad timing happenstance... but it can easily feel like that way unless we put a stop to it with the first of these self-talk questions.

Is This REALLY True?

I was tempted to re-record this video for you, but it would have defeated the whole purpose of everything we are talking about!  Yo...

Last week we talked about ways YOU know there is a conversation that needs to be had with your child because of your own discomfort, frustration and lack of understanding.  

In this video I go through details of the 5 signs you can get from outside of yourself that a conversation needs to happen!   

1. Quiet

2. Outbursts of frustrations

3. School 

4. Friends and outside voices

5. Your gut

When we set the tone and expectation for conversation and quality questions when they are with us the...

Connecting with people. 

Feeling Heard.  

Knowing what you think and feel is validated and matters.

These are basic human needs and wants at any age and in today's world when it is easy to get pushed aside, people need to know they have someone in their corner and wouldn't it be amazing if it were your family?  

The basis of every great change is a conversation.  

Every week in the fb group All Things School From Home, we will be doing live videos just for you!

In the video above I go ov...

What you do not schedule you do not do.

Do you schedule a manicure or pedicure? Yearly check up? (so fun!) Vacations? Playdates? Lunch with friends?  You get it.

If you didn’t ever PLAN anything it wouldn’t happen.  You HAVE to be intentional.

As I am coming into my busier season with teaching school, serving in youth, running a women’s group, and keeping our family businesses going I have to be very intentional about my time not only for the balls I need to keep in the air, but also for wher...

I am doing a leadership bible study and this was something that came up on Day 1 and it was a great reminder.

In all of our lives we have KPI’s (key performance indicators) of success from childhood to adulthood.  Did you learn “on time”? Did you get a good grade? Did you get into the “right” college or do the “right” thing after high school? Did you even finish high school? Then it goes on into relationships, marriage, business and jobs, retirement funds and bluh…. 

All of those “adulti...

Do you go on a trip cross country, especially a country you have never been to without a map?  No way!  Same goes for a new experience or a new season in life.  

Summer, in it's typical flavor is full of unsanctioned time, less rules, less productivity and more free!  But, just like we can't go through life only in play mode, neither can the kids.  Getting BACK into the swing of a school year is always a challenge and this year...  well let's just say everyone is trying to figure it out and the...

There is no doubt that this year has turned us all sideways and a little upside down.  The things we had taken for granted are now dreamed of.  For me... hugs.  I miss hugs.  I miss NOT feeling weird seeing two people having a normal social interaction like a handhold, handshake or high five before realizing they must live in the same space.  I am not even what some would classify as overly germ cautious, but it is just the norm now.   You know it has happened to you.  Watching TV or a movie and...

Funny how “planned” life roads never take you where you think they will, isn’t it? 

I sometimes look back on those 5 year plans, 10 year plans or life plans and have a good chuckle.  I remember before college I had a whole plan to be riding the high seas doing whale research around the world, meet a husband and get married around 30-32, settle down with 2 kids near a research center and continue with my work. 

“Oh honey”…  I would say.  “Great plan, but it won’t happen that way.  It will be so...