by Britt Kelly | Dec 12, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Here it is a few weeks away from Christmas and you find yourselves stressed. Your bank account has not magically doubled, you are not suddenly energetic or healthy, your family is not instantly around you, and you did not overnight turn into a Pinterest queen with a...
by Britt Kelly | Dec 5, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
Last night a piece of my favorite nativity broke. It’s so easy to break things. It’s so much harder and slower to fix them. Looking at my nativity and thinking about San Bernardino and the other more than 30 murders by guns that happen every day in the United States,...
by Britt Kelly | Nov 28, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
We started the day with a new read aloud that’s filled with math and led to drawing turkeys and circles. There were circumferences, and diameters and pi. It was a good morning followed by chores and play and baby. In the early afternoon I announced we were going to...
by Britt Kelly | Nov 14, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
With so many children I need to be creative in how I use my resources. I’ve decided to start recycling parenting techniques to apply to teens, and I’m thinking one particular technique would be fabulously applied to everyone. The magic mommy kiss. I LOVE the magic...
by Britt Kelly | Oct 24, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
I’ve done toddler tantrums: in stores, in church, at the park…I don’t take them personally. Sometimes the child is hungry, sometimes they need a nap. Sometimes they need to face the very harsh reality that their mother is the worst mother in the world and won’t...
