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4 Moms on Bedtime, Home Construction, Forced Association, and Favorite Read-Alouds

May 23, 2013

Buy our ebook here. For kids that share rooms at night, do you let them talk quietly? Do you have a point where they have to be silent? How do you enforce not talking? I have one child that will talk for hours and keeps her sister awake. I am all for letting children talk, [...]

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4 Moms Share Vegetarian Recipes

May 16, 2013

Have you bought our ebook yet? The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are sharing vegetarian recipes today, so this is the day you find out The Smockity Family is not vegetarian. As in, we like our meat. But I don’t want to let you down, so I have dug around and found some vegetarian recipes [...]

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4 Moms Answer Questions About Sharing, Church, and Extreme Honesty

May 9, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are answering reader questions. How do you teach sharing without forcing it? I have shared my views on forced sharing before, and I stand by those and believe them strongly, even though I have been called “selfish” for them. (Thanks, “anonymous”.) We have plenty of toys that belong to [...]

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4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Questions About Seating Arrangements, Snacks, and Books

May 2, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are at it again, answering reader questions. Remember to “like” the 4 Moms Facebook page if you would like to leave a question for our consideration. How do you handle seats at the kitchen table? Assigned? Anywhere they want? What age do they stop sitting in booster seats? My [...]

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4 Moms Answer Questions About Personal Space, 15 Passenger Vans, and Dawdling

April 25, 2013

It is time once again for questions and answers. The questions are from you and the answers are from 4 Moms of 35+ Kids. And you, if you would like to chime in below in the comments. Please, do, if you have something to add! How do you deal with personal space issues with a [...]

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4 Moms Discuss Difficult News Stories, Naptime, and Sleeping Through the Night

April 18, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids take questions on our Facebook page and try to answer those to the best of our abilities. Here’s the thing, though. In most cases we are only telling you what works in our families. In the years I have been perusing the internet for parenting advice, I have noted [...]

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4 Moms Discuss Teaching Advanced High School Subjects

April 11, 2013

Have you bought the 4 Moms’ ebook yet? The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are discussing how we teach upper level, or advanced, high school subjects. As a homeschool mom, I have often been asked, “What about when they get to high school? How will you teach trigonometry? Do you have a foreign language degree? [...]

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4 Moms Answer Questions About Lying, Prioritizing, and Crockpot Cooking

April 4, 2013

Have you bought the 4 Moms’ ebook yet? The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are answering reader questions from our Facebook page again this week. How do you deal with lying when there is no hard proof, though you strongly suspect who did it? This is an area where I made a painful mistake that [...]

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4 Moms Q&A – Birthdays, Switching Seasonal Clothes, and Grieving a Stillborn Baby

March 28, 2013

How do you celebrate birthdays? Since we have 10 people in our family, we do not do big shindigs for every birthday, otherwise we would be partying every time we turn around. Our rule is when you turn 5, 10, or 15 you get to have a “friends” party. And we like to keep those [...]

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4 Moms Deal With Snotty Attitudes and New Babies {Plus a GIVEAWAY}

March 7, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are answering questions submitted on our 4 Moms Facebook page. How do you deal with a snotty attitude in a 7 year old? Some days he’s just nasty. My children know they are to speak respectfully and be considerate to everyone they encounter. If they disobey that expectation, we [...]

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