The Christmas school holidays have already begun for our family. We have eight weeks to rest and recover from a full and happy year. These holidays my priority is to create lots of family fun while spending as little as possible. We have five children aged 10 and under and like many larger families have to be careful about our spending. I wrote…
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Parents! Pray, hope, and don’t worry
This is a transcript for my short regular podcast series for the Journey Catholic radio program. It’s like a two-minute pep talk for frazzled parents! In more than a decade of parenting, my husband and I have had our share of anxious moments over our children – sleepless nights with sick babies, accidents,…
Random (mostly happy) thoughts from the trenches of family life with young children
I love some of the ideas people gave me for my 40 things for 40 years challenge. Learn to play the ukulele and go busking with it is my favourite! Thanks Annemarie! I’m really taken with this idea of doing 40 new or challenging things this year while I’m 39. Who knows how much time any…
Parents, hold your children to a (reasonable) standard
Photo by Ken Doerr. The following is a transcript from my Peaceful Parent segment on The Journey radio program. Late last night when I went to have my shower I found that only one child had left her day’s clothing on the floor, which was a welcome sight really, since until recently I’ve been greeted by…
Marilyn Rodrigues 