I wrote a column for Mustard Seed Sentinel (formerly Pandora's Box Gazette), an online magazine. Below are links to those articles which were featured on the fourth Thursday of most months (2018-2019).

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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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