I write a column for Mustard Seed Sentinel (formerly Pandora's Box Gazette), an online magazine. Below are links to those articles which are featured on the fourth Thursday of most months (beginning with February 2018).

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The Benefit of Books
A Box of Nonsense

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Chores a Good Choice
Creative Kids

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Finding Just the Right Picture Book for Your Preschooler
Fruitful Words

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Gift Giving Blues

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Indoor Activities for Little Ones

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Monkey See, Monkey Do

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Parenting Adult Children

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Rainy Day Campout

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Smooth Move
Stickers May Save Your Sanity
Stop, Thief!

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Tips for Sending Your Child to School
Today's Preschooler, Tomorrow's Teen
To Eat or Not to Eat
Too Many Toys
Toy Pick Up Fun

PARENTING QUOTES

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary." -Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

“Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.” -Dan Pearce

“Parents are the great well wishers of their child, no one else more than them.” -Kusum Manjeshri

“The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.” -Bertrand Russell

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?" - Ed Dussault

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore M. Hesburgh

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