I am so excited to share my latest project with you all! Audacious Arrows is a Bible reading podcast for kids. If you’ve read any of my content here at Acorns to Oaks then you probably have caught on to the fact that I am passionate about God’s word and especially that my children know,…
It’s not that we don’t want generous and kind children. We certainly do! Which is why we don’t “teach our kids to share”. Instead we have other strategies we implement in our home. The word “share” is in our family’s vocabulary. We use it often, but we take a different approach for getting to the…
There is a tipping point in every parent’s life where teaching kids to tell time becomes essential. When they are little you can say “in ten minutes we’ll…..” and it is so wonderful that the kids don’t actually have a clue about when ten minutes is actually over. However, there is breaking point. “When is…
With Halloween around the corner we find no shortage of opportunities to help our kids deal with fear. We have a neighbor who has a history of dressing antique dolls in white, squirting red paint all over them, and having them in and around dog kennels in the front yard. Another neighbor enjoys hanging a…
I want to share with you how we do wonderful and exciting birthdays for cheap. I mean really cheap. My kids party budget is $25.
My dad sparked my interest in butterflies as a young child. We would go on “butterfly hunts” and order chrysalises from catalogs together. Hoping to recreate those wonderful memories with my own kids we have made a little tradition each summer of delving into the magical world of butterfies!
If you’ve exhausted your current list of family-friendly movies perhaps one of these 6 might be a novel suggestion. Get some popcorn ready!
You can bark at your kids all day to put the clean laundry away, tidy their room, or feed the dog, but it won’t do a bit of good if they don’t know how to do those chores!
Kids messes tend to wear us down because they are so daily – hourly even! Here is a little toolbox of strategies to use so that you lose it less often.
