Our family culture involves lots of music time.  It is a huge focus for all of us.  My older two children both spend lots of time singing, and playing piano.  They have a special music mentor who helps them excel in these areas. 
Their music mentor has spoken with me many times about how my daughter [...]

 ”My son has ADHD…My main concerns are the impulsiveness…and  the fighting with his brothers- he literally cannot walk past without hitting them, punching them,   teasing them.  Car rides can be a real nightmare.  (The therapist says “just leave him home sometime”— yah- he’s 6 years old, I can’t just leave him home alone,  and leaving him with a [...]

“I have been reading your website and listening to your CD’s and practicing what I’ve learned from you.  It has helped tremendously with the level of peace in our home.  A situation occurred last night with my 12 y/o which has me a bit stymied.  He was at a church camp-out and playing flag football [...]

 ”In your house, what are the privileges that are taken away when they lose ‘everything’ for 24 hours?   At what age can they understand that?   Or, what do you do with very little ones who are testing boundaries (and throwing fits) but can’t really do chores or understand losing things?  I don’t know if my 29 month old could [...]

Below are four new posts.  This should keep you all busy for a few days. 

“I’ve just been wondering about how to respond appropriately when my children get hurt.  I don’t want to be unsympathetic or cruel, but how do you respond if it’s something you have pointed out they shouldn’t do or they might get hurt, or they are disobeying a rule (like not running in the house or [...]

Enjoy all that the children are and do.  Interact a lot with them.  Play!  They grow too fast to waste any time.  I have spent too many days trying to be “productive” in my life, and missed the really important things.  I have promised myself not to do that any more.  Why would I choose [...]

A week ago, I was standing in the kitchen canning peaches, and my whole family atmosphere fell apart all around me in a matter of five minutes. 
My son was asked by his father to help with something in the back yard.  My son didn’t want to do it, so he decided to have an attitude [...]

There are some great questions in some of the recent comments. 
“…Most women I know are neglecting taking care of themselves on some level (physical or spiritual) to take care of their families or other obligations. Personally, I have been struggling lately to try to find some time for myself on a daily basis for things like scripture-reading, [...]

Tomorrow our family has to leave early for the day.  While driving the car tonight I realized that we didn’t have any gas, and if we had to get gas tomorrow morning, we would probably end up running late for our appointments.  So, I decided to take some time this evening to re-fuel the car. 
As [...]