29. ScreenTime, Chores, Habits of Blessing - Help our kids GROW, even in a crisis. Plus, Mom, What's Your Harriet Road?

A SIMPLE SOLUTION to STOP the magnetic pull of the screen to your child is included among the ideas Val shares this week on our series Parenting in the Pandemic.  You'll learn about Val's GROWTIME before SCREENTIME Checklist, a Blessings Calendar (to help kids develop the HABIT of being a blessing to their family members and others), making a Grateful Poster, and having your child begin a  Discovery Notebook.This podcast episode also contains the conclusion to Living a Lifestyle of Feasting with the Father.  Val wants to know, Mom, What’s Your Harriet Road? Two of my daughters join me on the podcast this week! Emma helps me with a SIMPLE PLAN for kids to keep themselves off of screen time until they’ve GROWN in some main areas of life EACH DAY! Let a CHECKLIST be their guide to being eligible for SCREEN TIME for the day instead of you feeling like you have to nag and harp and grouch at them to get them to do something productive with their days during this crisis-schooling or whatever it is we're doing right now!  The beauty of a CHECKLIST – the kids follow it instead of mom needing to repeatedly ask them to do things or for mom to try to think of what she wishes the kids would do to be productive before they get on their screens.Make a checklist for kids to complete each day BEFORE they get screentime!  That's what you'll learn about on this podcast episode.Go to my blog post for this week to see our GROWTIME before SCREENTIME Checklist, Blessings Calendar, Grateful Poster, Discovery Notebook and more.Resourceswww.CrossSeven.org is my favorite educational resource to recommend.  It's a subscription website of academic memory song videos in all the key area of learning, plus quizzes and lots of other helps besides the memory songs.  I was not paid in any way by Cross Seven.  I just love how much my children have learned in the many years that we've used this resource.Even with a checklist, you should still have BOUNDARIES for your cSend Val your encouragement and thoughts about the show.Support the showVisit Val's website: PracticallySpeakingMOM.comJoin Val's Facebook Group Intentional Mom, Strong FamilyFollow Val on Instagram and her Facebook Public Page Practically Speaking MOMWe're on a mission to strengthen families.Want to help cover some of the costs of the show? click here. A few dollars a month would help so much!Here's some other ways to give:Cash App: $valPSMPaypal: [email protected] with a credit card HEREAll donations will be used for the ministry. Gifts are not tax deductible. THANK YOU for partnering in this ministry to strengthen families and encourage intentional moms."May the Words of my mouth and the medit...