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Pros and Cons of the Big Family (According to the Parents)

Photo by Impressions Photography Married young and naive, my husband and I decided to go big or go home. After all, we loved Yours, Mine and Ours and chaos sounded like a great idea. We eventually t…

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Pros and Cons of the Big Family (According to the Kids)

Photo by Impressions Photography Those seven, they are all ours. And, much to their exasperation, they belong to each other. None of them remember what a small family feels like because the first …

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Three Things I Want My Kids to Know by Age Three

There are so many things we want our kids to know before they leave our houses in a cloud of adulthood. Hundreds and thousands of things. A few years back I read a book entitled 8 Things No Kids Sh…

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To Travel or Not to Travel: Five Reasons to take Kids to the Developing World

When our first little person was five months old, we packed up our earthly belongings and jumped ship for the Big Red country across the water. So began our seventeen years of international travel wi…

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One Thing I Know About You and Your Kids

We have probably all done our share of people watching. If you have little kids, it is at the McDonald's playplace or the beach or the park, while you keep one eye trained on the chaos you claim as yo…

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The One Question Our Kids are Asking

Can I have a snack? Can I smell your armpit? Is God in my tummy? Why do I ask a lot of questions? If you know any kids at all, you could probably add some interesting ones to the list. Kids are f…

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