Getting organized is good for your health. I know my mental attitude and outlook improves a hundred fold when my house is clean and orderly. When it is chaos, my life seems to mirror that. I am grumpy, unmotivated, less likely to be patient with my kids, and less likely to make good decisions. Who wants to cook that healthy slow food when the kitchen is a wreck and the pantry is so stuffed I cannot find the things I need? Ordering takeout starts to sounds a little too good. Likewise who wants to … [Read more...]
Their Time is Occupied, But Not Their Brains
By Kirsten Olson, Author of Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture It's the end of the school year, exam time for school age children. Everywhere around the country children are studying (and Facebooking and YouTubing, and searching online while listening to music). Simultaneously. While most adults support the act studying for children (teaches them discipline! keeps them off the streets!), my own three teenage children report they will be … [Read more...]
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