Category: Creative Parenting
Discipline Tips to Foster Maturity in Tweens
Try these 10 discipline tips to foster maturity and build character in your tween. more
It’s All About Attitude! How’s Yours?
Sometimes the attitude adjustments need to come from us parents, not our kids. It’s time for a parenting attitude check. more
Talk to Your Daughter about Menstruation… Period!
How do you talk about her first period with your daughter and help her to be prepared? Read on to learn some great tips from experienced youth worker and mom, Jo Brielyn. more
Date Night… with Your Kids
Five creative ways to celebrate family date night and bond with your kids. more
Kids and Body Image
Five ways I helped – and continue to help – my daughter with her body image. more
Fun St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Kids
Here are some of my favorite websites and links to articles with fun ideas and St. Patrick’s Day activities for kids and families to enjoy. more
Last Minute Valentine’s Day Ideas
If you’re looking for last minute Valentine’s Day ideas to use with your kids, check out these fun ones. Happy Valentine’s Day from Creative Kids Ideas! more
Snow Day
These creative ideas for fun games and activities to play in the snow will help you take advantage of the winter weather and have fun with your kids. more
Creative Kids Ideas’ Jo Brielyn Interviewed on Blog Talk Radio!
Founder of Creative Kids Ideas, Jo Brielyn, will be interviewed on Blog Talk Radio tomorrow! Check out the details and tune in. more
Family Goals for the New Year
Read on to learn why making family goals for the New Year is beneficial for your family and to find out what mine are. more
Family Goals for the New Year
First of all, I apologize for slacking on my blogging duties lately. Preparing for the holidays, trying to meet book deadlines, having the kids off from school, and fighting off the dreaded colds and stomach viruses that hit our family in December, all have kept me running like a crazy woman! (Okay, crazier woman.) Anyhow, enough with the excuses. I’m back and ready to kick off 2011 the right way – with family goals for the New Year.
I have a confession. I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t even like to think about them. Why? Let’s face it. Come mid-February, too many of those resolutions have already fizzled out and are forgotten – at least mine do. Unfulfilled resolutions don’t lead to real changes.
On the other hand, I am one who constantly seeks ways to improve and the beginning of a new year is an excellent time to initiate those improvements. Instead of making New Year’s resolutions, I choose to use the start of the New Year as an opportunity to reevaluate my life, determine areas I can make better, and build new goals to achieve in the upcoming year. Not resolutions but life changes. Usually I focus on personal or career related goals. For 2011, however, I am adjusting my focus to create goals for the benefit of my whole family in the New Year. I encourage you to do the same.
Read on to learn why making family goals for the New Year is beneficial for your family and to find out what mine are…
What goals have you set for your family? I’d love to hear what your plans are and how they’re working!
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