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Parenting Resolutions

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Raising Needham

Resolutions Parents Can Actually Keep

The New Year brings new hopes and challenges but a host of resolutions we don’t usually keep.

Let’s just put it out there shall we? We don’t keep our New Year’s resolutions. We mean well but those grand thoughts of ditching the holiday weight and curbing our TV watching usually fall by the way side just weeks into the first month. Not this year! I am making resolutions that I can actually keep. What’s my secret you ask, simplicity. No need to set yourself up for failure. Make some resolutions that are actually attainable. Here are some off my parenting list: So that is where I am this first week of the New Year. I am trying to make more realistic plans for the next year and with some adjustments along the way and think I can make them stick. Now that my parenting goals are done it is time to move on to my personal goals. That list …

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Raising Needham

Raising Needham: Back to Basics

The New Year is a great time to get the family back on track and get the year started in the right direction.

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions per se, but I do like to set goals for myself and my family several times a year. I set exercise, health and career goals but I also set parenting goals. Nine times out of 10 these goals bring me back to the parenting basics that most of us know and strive for. Sometimes we all get off cours, and this time of year with all of the holiday parties, school vacation and general rule bending can be the worse time for model parenting. That being said, now that the holiday craze is over, why not wipe the slate clean, get back to basics and set some parenting goals. The first thing I did with my kids after they awoke from a super fun family New Year's Eve party was to take down the holiday decorations. This …

Ann Hesenius

10:22 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012

Where is God and church/temple in all of your BASICS?!? :)   more ›

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