Professional Mothering Blog

Welcome to our mothering blog. The Professional Mothering Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the professional-mothering.com web site.

Taking a break...

I just wanted to inform my readers who may be expecting new posts: My family is moving right now, and when that's done, I'm due to have my next baby in less than 7 weeks. We are excited about these changes in our life, but it does mean that I will be very busy! I will resume blogging at the end of September. I will announce when the baby arrives, and whether it's a boy or a girl.

Also, I am changing my web-hosting for this site, so expect some changes and perhaps a few glitches as the conversion takes place.

Preschool Curriculum

Sharing insights into our preschool curriculum, how I organize our preschool, and sharing some preschool forms planning sheets, and charts that I have created to help me focus.

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Sign Language

Teaching our children sign language has been very rewarding for our family as we have been able to communicate easier and earlier than we would have otherwise.

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Phonics for toddlers

In my research of teaching phonics for toddlers, I began with the alphabet. I found Sidney Ledson's fantastic books, and went from there.

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Rhythm for Preschoolers

Outlining the methods I use with my own children, "Beginning Rhythm for Preschoolers" is an ebook to help you teach your young child how to read music.

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Homemade Instruments

A variety of homemade instruments, including claves, tuned glasses, rain sticks, coconut halves, metal bowl, jumping coins, stringed instruments, the shaker, and the guiro.

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Scripture Reading Challenge

scriptures4kids.org is hosting a scripture reading challenge for children. If they read every day for 60 days, they receive a $10 gift certificate to Deseret Book!

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Moon Craters

Moon Craters are a sensory activity that invites young children to touch and explore different textures.

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Family Home Evening

One of our favorite traditions is to have a weekly family home evening, usually on Mondays, to spend time together in family worship.

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Armor of God

Putting on the armor of God was made easier with a few small assistants from our kitchen cupboards.

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Flower Crowns

Spring is here, and what better way to let your children enjoy the flora then to let them wear flower crowns?

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Easy Granola

This easy granola recipe is one of my favorites to make because I can use the 10 minutes baking time to get the kids ready for breakfast. Perfect and delicious!

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PVC Pipe Activity

The objective of the PVC pipe activity is to build free-standing structures in any way the children choose. What a fun way to build spatial reasoning skills!

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Mothers who know

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Raising individual children

We are raising individual children, and the opportunities that each child has will be unique.

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