I’m going to be honest: it’s not easy to get my boys to “reflect” on something. Reflecting requires quiet, stillness, uninterrupted thought… yeah, three boys under the age of eight don’t do much of those things! With Father’s Day approaching, though, I knew it was important to help them spend some time thinking about the…
10 Tips for Inspiring Reluctant Readers
My six-year-old is a reluctant reader. She loves to be read to, but she doesn’t enjoy picking up a book and deciphering the letters herself. Many of our little ones are like that, aren’t they? (And maybe a few of our older kids, too!) There are a lot of different reasons kids are reluctant to…