Family
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Even Sporadic NFP Use Has Many Untold Benefits
My husband and I were one of those Catholic couples who got married not knowing about Natural Family Planning (NFP). We planned to have kids right away and were ultimately shooting for six kids (five for a basketball team and… Continue reading
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#MeToo, In the Time of 50 Shades and GoT?
Last week, Alyssa Milano reignited a decade-old campaign to raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault. Her tweet resonated with millions. But while the problem is global and pervasive, and our hearts are broken for our sisters,… Continue reading
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Protected: A Long Story
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Continue reading
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What Nino Read July 2017
I haven’t been keeping track of Nino’s reading the past couple of months. He had asked for a vacation from school this year as he realized that his siblings were officially off school. So far the summer has been spent… Continue reading
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How to DIY Your Child’s Homeschooling Curriculum
It’s that time of year — the most exciting, for every DIY homeschooler mom!! It’s curriculum-designing time. We’ve been homeschooling for ~18 years so I’m way more confident now than I was years ago when I first tried to do this. Back… Continue reading
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Why do parents find it bad if their children fall in love in high school?
You’ll have to define “bad”. Bad = not thinking things through, operating on emotion alone, allowing oneself to be in situations where one could make bad decisions that one will most likely regret later, e.g., think sex or drugs or… Continue reading
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Did young children in previous eras have tantrums like today’s toddlers?
All toddlers throw tantrums. The reasons may be different, the manner and intensity of the tantrum may be different, but toddlers throw tantrums because they’re testing the limits. The parents’ response will partly determine whether the child matures or… Continue reading
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What Nino Read, April 2017
Galileo’s Leaning Tower Experiment Viking Raiders The Wishing-Chair Collection Draw Really Cool Stuff Space (DK Eyewitness) Knute Rockne (COFA) Cleopatra Spider The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt How to Draw Spider-Man Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (for dictionary work) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart… Continue reading
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What Nino Read, March 2017
Track Team Titans The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue! Peter Kent’s Big Book of Armor Who Were the Vikings? King Jack and the Dragon How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball The Kingfisher First Encyclopedia Can You… Continue reading
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What Nino Read, February 2017
175 More Science Experiments To Amuse and Amaze Your Friends A Lime, a Mime, a Pool of Slime A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink Ang Binibining Tumalo sa Mahal Na Hari Ang Prinsipeng Ayaw Maligo Charles Dickens: The Man… Continue reading