Parenthood Ideas

Bring the Heat! A Desert Theme for Preschoolers

Bring a little bit of the American Southwest to your preschool classroom with these desert themed activities. Prickly pear cactus, coyotes and tumbleweeds abound when you create a preschool desert theme that will introduce children to the landscape and culture of the Sonoran desert.

These art activities will help children understand some of the features of a desert landscape.

Cactus Sculpture: Provide children with green Play-Doh and several photos of cacti in a desert landscape. Fill a short clear plastic cup with rocks and sand and have children place their Play-Doh sculptures in the mini desert landscape.

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Expecting

I looked in the mirror yesterday and caught a sideways view of my belly.

Can I really get any bigger?

I have ten weeks left in this pregnancy, my second and last. I wish I didn’t know it was my last—that this is the last time I will feel the first flutters in my stomach, and then subtle kicks and then, at this stage, rolls that contort my tummy into the strangest shapes.

This being my second, I don’t have time to just sit and revel in the miracle growing inside my body. My three-year-old is a handful, to say the least. She’s wonderful, of course, but stubborn and challenging. I’m sur

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Are You Raising a World Challenger?

As parents we desire nothing more than to raise our children up to be the next generation of World Changers. That phrase can almost seem cliché’ at times. What does it really mean to raise up a world changer? If you are being really honest, do you believe that your child is going to change the world? If you don’t believe it, you better believe they definitely won’t believe it.

I love hearing Pastor Steven Furtick talk about his sons and how they are the greatest men of God of their generation. Sounds

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How parents know when they need more help with their child: The Grandmothers

How parents know when they need more help with their child: The Grandmothers If you are concerned about something your child persists in doing or saying, first ask, “Is the behavior developmentally appropriate?” Is his behavior matching that of kids at his stage of development?By The Grandmothers

My pediatrician says he’ll outgrow it.

Of course he will. He’s an average kid from a good-enough family so he will not be wearing diapers to high school, sucking on his pacifier at his college graduation ceremony, or throwing tantrums in the grocery checkout line when he goes shopping with his wife.

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