by Jackie Bledsoe | Oct 5, 2012 | Raising Kids
October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month. An article in the Huffington Post states one incident of bullying happens every seven minutes. Wow! By the time you read this post and watch the YouTube video below someone will have to deal with bullying. Needless...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Sep 12, 2012 | MentoRING, Raising Kids
I recently became a writer for the first online magazine made for educators, The Educator’s Room. I’ll be writing articles from my experience as a parent and teacher of homeschoolers, as well my experience as a trained homeschool tutor. The...
by Guest | Sep 8, 2012 | Money, Raising Kids
The cost of participating in youth sports is an ongoing and ever-increasing one. Parents shoulder the responsibility for sports gear, travel expenses, sports camps, pictures, registration fees and more. As such, fundraising has become a readily accepted practice by...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Sep 4, 2012 | Raising Kids, RestoRING
Being kind, it seems, is sometimes missing in our house. Or in our car, while in route to our destination. Or anywhere we are. The last week or so our kids have frequently gone into what I call “verbal warfare” over the smallest things. Sometimes they...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Sep 3, 2012 | ProspeRING, Raising Kids
Married life with kids has changed my wife and I in a major way. I like to joke that the first decade of 2000 was our “baby making” decade. Still not sure if my wife likes when I say that or not. We started off in 2000 with our first child, and ended in...
by Jackie Bledsoe | Sep 1, 2012 | ProspeRING, Raising Kids
Living an active lifestyle will make you a healthier person. Exercise helps prevent disease. Therefore when you complete regular physical activities you reduce your risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancer types. Then why don’t a...
