Come join Nicholeen at the 2017 Uplift Families Conference! This event is not hosted by Teaching Self-Government. The 3-fold purpose of “Uplift Families” is to 1. strengthen parent-child relationships 2. provide tools and resources that improve parenting skills 3. help children make safe and healthy choices Uplift Families Vision To promote happiness, prosperity and societal […]
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Thisweek’s Gem is on remembering the most important thing during theholidays or any time of the year – the relationships. Myfavorite quote from this Gem is this: Thereally powerful vision-driven type person enjoys the serving part;enjoys the creating. She draws happiness from the joy that she’sgiving away! Right Click To Download Merry Christmas from us
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Anticipating Daddy Dates by Nicholeen Peck Memories are priceless! And, memories with daddy are extraspecial. I know not all households have daddies, so if there isn’t adaddy at your house you can apply this article to mommies, grandmas,and grandpas too. When I was young my daddy deliberately made time each week to takeone of his
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What are you doing for ThanksgivingDay? Do you go to grandma’s house or do you cozy up at home? Nomatter what you do, or how large or small your group is there aresome simple fun things you can do to make Thanksgiving day fun. In this article I am going to sharewith you some old
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“What if the Revolutionary War never happened?” “Then cows would sing at baseball games.” or “What if sausage was a health food?” “Then everyone would wear red shoes on Wednesdays.” What? Does any of this make sense to you? That’s the whole point. This hilarious game was taught to me this last week by my
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There are many ways to show love for family members. However, in our family, we don’t write to each other as much as we talk to each other or do acts of service. So, for one of our family activities we decided to make a family mail system.
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Family activity nights are big deals at our house! Not that we spend a lot of money or anything, but we do keep them a big priority. We know that having regular family activities keeps our family relationships fresh. The night gives us something to talk about and look forward to.
Here are is a list of our top ten activities which don’t really cost anything:
1- “Knock Your Socks Off”
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Many people ask me what we do for Christmas and how we keep the family feeling united during all the hustle and bustle of the holidays.One of those ways is traditions.I am excited to have an article for you about some of the Peck family’s favorite traditions. Family traditions are so important for fostering love
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Family activities don’t necessarily need to be elaborate! I am a bit of a romantic, so I always try to think up things that sound memorable.
Tonight we drove around our small town until we found a place that had a lot of leaves that needed to be raked up. We made the ever traditional huge pile of leaves and jumped in, rolled around, buried each other, took pictures, and wrestled a bit. Soon it was time to go. (the draw back of daylight savings time) We decided that we didn’t want to be done. We wanted to take the fun home with us. So, we quickly went home to get some strong garbage