It’s a season of change. School has started in our area and our family is about to make some big changes, so we’re starting our homeschool year off saving money and staying frugal. Read more to find out what we did.
Now that I have a 9th grader and a 7th grader, I decided it’s time to have them work on home economics and have a new chore chart since we haven’t had one in a while. I posted it on the fridge this morning and most of the kids are excited. My 7 year old has … Read more
Last night in Family Home Evening, my husband and I introduced the concept of The Bean Counter Game as found in Oliver and Rachel DeMille’s Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning. Note: In the book, the official name of the 5th ingredient is The Bean-Counter Game. Since yesterday was Labor Day, we spent the day … Read more
Does your family need to change the way it does chores? Mine did. When I applied my new method, and gave it a couple weeks, the results were amazing. The Back Story Last time I posted about chore charts, I had a weekly spreadsheet idea that worked well for our family at the time. Sometimes, … Read more