Green parenting is a different sort of parenting, more natural, and definitely far less stressful on parents and kids alike. The approach is more informative, and more “kindergarten” in the sense that the original kindergartens were invented by children as fun learning experiences. That’s terrific for training, and it’s also a lot of fun in choosing everything from toys to …

Simply asking kids to do some kind of chore or helpful gesture like coupon cutting is usually about as effective as telling your cat to use the toilet.  Various manners of reward-based systems can be effective for getting chores done, and, believe it or not, they can also help your family save money.

Meal Planning and Sales Searching

When meal …

Family holidays can be a great joy, but they can also be hard work too. Parenting teenagers or children of any age can be a challenge, but factor in holiday excitement and the stress of packing and you could end up with quite a bit of bother around the home. Trips require a lot of planning, especially when you have …

The school routine is in “ACTIVE” mode. The kids are very happy to be back to school, to meet their friends again as well as the teachers. Some kids don’t like the end of summer vacations because they have to get back into the school schedule again, but my kids were excited to go back.

Once I was at home during Summer vacations I guess they felt they were fulfilled when it comes to have mom around. Now that they now I’m doing my best to work from home and keep picking them up at school, they feel very comfortable and serene about going to school.

Tomorrow we are planning a trip to a Pool Park with tubes, slides and big pools. The kids are so excited. I also invited my niece and nephew to come with us because their parents are working and they can have fun with us. We have to take two cars but that’s just fine, we just want the kids to …

Thursday we went to Kidzania. I believe United States doesn’t have this park. It is a city for children aged 3 to 15 where they are treated as adults. It has everything a normal city has: supermarket, post office, hospital, school, travel agency, nightclub, etc.. When the children enter the park they receive Kiddos (Kidzania Money) and than they …

My kids have been asking me to go to the movies for quite some time, so I decided to choose an interesting movie and the three of us went to the Cinema (daddy at work…).

So, we went to watch Nanny McPhee Returns.

The daycare my kids used to attend has always a lot of Summer activities. Although they are at home with me since I quit my job, my son and daughter (and myself) have a great connection with the daycare and the personal. We went there to visit on Tuesday and we were informed of the activities they were having this week. Wednesday we went to the daycare director’s house pool and yesterday we joined them in a camping park.

This week I had a crazy week at home, I can say it was house full of kids. Between nephews and neighbor boy and girls I had an average of five kids per day in the pool.

So far I’m surviving this week alone with the kids although yesterday it was quite a busy days. A neighbor boy and girls came to our house to play in the pool. I must confess that I like to have the kids here, enjoying each other, playing and having fun but it’s really noisy and I come to I point I can’t hear them anymore.

One week ago my father died and today my mother came to my house to have lunch with us and spend the afternoon. Although very emotive when she meets someone that gives her condolences, but I’m sure soon she will overcome it.

At lunch time I had the visit of my ex-coworker, his wife and daughter. They…

The days are getting warmer and the need to be outdoors is increasing. However due to my father’s hospitalization / death / and all the paperwork we have to take care when a close relative dies, I can say that I’m exhausted. Emotionally and physically.