Raising Well Behaved Kids
I vividly remember being invited to a Pampered Chef party at a neighbor’s house. I had 5 children under 6 at the time and was expecting...
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gretchen knuffke
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
Avoiding Overwhelm
One thing that I struggled with as a young mom was the feeling of being overwhelmed with all the things coming at me. I grew up in a...
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gretchen knuffke
- Apr 28, 2020
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School At Home During Covid-19
With millions of us now doing remote learning with our children, it can be challenging to keep our kids focused. I have heard from many...
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gretchen knuffke
- Apr 27, 2020
- 3 min
Potty Training 101
This post is for my daughter who is potty training her toddler and any other moms who need some pointers. Now is the perfect time to...
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gretchen knuffke
- Apr 7, 2020
- 3 min
Your Family Traditions
Our family has a tradition of watching The Twilight Zone on New Year’s Eve. It is one of the things that our grown, college age, teens,...
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gretchen knuffke
- Apr 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Most Effective Parenting Style
Raising a child is the most important thing that most of us will do in our lives, but oftentimes parents have little idea on what is the...
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gretchen knuffke
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
The Importance of Family Dinner
One positive aspect of this global quarantine may be that families start eating together again. I even think that it may be one of the...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Raising Readers
When I was in 5th grade my teacher, Mrs. Huffman, read aloud to our class every afternoon. Some of us would draw, some of us would lay...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
Celebrate the Good Stuff
There was a time, in all my innocence, that I really believed that if I just did everything right all the time, and controlled everything...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 27, 2020
- 2 min
Parenting is an Action Verb.
A big part of your parenting mission and parenting plan should be identifying your rules, boundaries and expectations. One of the things...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 26, 2020
- 1 min
Outing Bags
I’m not really sure what to call these! I had some tote bags, big ones with flat bottoms were my favorite, that I always kept packed for...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
Organizing Your Home
Once I had determined my mission and my goals as a mom, it was time to prepare my house and my kids. I had already instituted the...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Creating Your Mission as a Mom
I mentioned that I spent some time identifying my household systems and crystallizing my goals as a mom. I have always been highly...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 21, 2020
- 2 min
The Importance of Routine.
I thought I would back up a second and explain why the schedule that you created yesterday matters so much to your kids. A routine is a...
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gretchen knuffke
- Mar 20, 2020
- 4 min
New Parenting Series Day 1 - Daily Schedules
I thought I would write a series on parenting during this enforced time out to help some of you that might need ideas on how to hold it...
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