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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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4 Moms Talk Buddy System, Dinner Recipes, Hand-Me-Downs, and Sharing

February 28, 2013

Buy the 4 Moms ebook! The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids have decided to make some changes in our posting. From now on 3 of us will be answering Q&A each week, and once monthly all 4 of us will be back together writing on a preassigned topic. To have your question considered for our [...]

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4 Moms Answer Reader Questions

February 21, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are answering reader questions this week. Here are some questions that were submitted to me on the Smockity Frocks Facebook page. Congratulations on the college scholarship! How did you prepare her? How did she come to be a finalist for the scholarship? How do you keep good transcripts? First, [...]

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Teaching Children to Work Hard With a Good Attitude

February 14, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are discussing how to get children to work hard with a good attitude. I have discussed before how we teach our children to do chores, and why we believe it is important to do that. Today’s topic is a bit more complex than just a chore list or chore [...]

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Valentine Recipes {LINKY}

February 7, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are hosting a Valentine recipe linkup! Raising Olives The Common Room Life in a Shoe Here are my homemade funfetti Valentine cupcakes. Or you could go hog wild and make these rainbow cupcakes and put the same Valentine toppers on them. And in case you aren’t feeling foody, see [...]

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4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Questions

January 24, 2013

What do you drive? We went from a mini-van to a Suburban, and didn’t get a bigger vehicle until we filled that to capacity and were expecting another. We had ordered and were waiting on the arrival of a used 15 passenger van, which we were supposed to get in time for us to use [...]

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On Encouraging Self Sufficiency in Children

January 17, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are discussing self sufficiency in children. A reader question prompted the topic of this post, “What do you do for your children and what do they do for themselves? Baths, cleaning, clothes maintenance, etc.” My policy is to allow and encourage children to do any and all things they [...]

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4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Questions on Preschool, Homeschooling with a Newborn, and More

January 3, 2013

The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids are answering reader questions today, and here are a few of the questions you all have asked me. I am debating whether to let my daughter attend preschool a couple days a week so she has an idea of what school and schoolwork mean before we homeschool. Just wondering [...]

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