From my daughter Jess – isn’t it wonderful when our children grow in maturity that they can turn around and bless or challenge your heart:

• forget the lists:  http://jessicaletchford.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/forget-the-lists/
• Time management http://jessicaletchford.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/time-managment-ideas/ It wasn’t so much the time management tips she discovered but the fact that she recognised something in her life she wanted to change and she looked for solutions or ideas to work with.

Quote from AussieHomeschool facebook page:  The finest art of communication is not learning how to express your thoughts. It is learning how to draw out the thoughts of another. ~ Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child’s Heart.  How often this aspect of communication is overlooked in our training.

Christian Fiction reading list.  I am trying to read more – not the snippets I read online but real books.  I’m trying to read more instructional/encouragement books as they  encourage my heart, sharpens my focus and helps me grow and I’m trying to read more fiction – mainly at nighttime, my relaxation.  It is easy to get caught up with the same authors or genres.  I appreciated Robyn’s list which had many different types of books, which I’ve never looked at before.  I’m going to earmark this for the next time I’m looking for a fiction book.

The Family that Works together – do you have projects around your house that needs to be done that you can involve your children in.  The rewards will be many.

Stress free camping – what a nice idea!!  We’re going camping soon so I’m on the lookout for as many tips as we can come across – do you have any?

Boy do I need to remember these tips:  Rules for Disagreeing!!  Thanks to Time for Tea Magazine.

and from Homeschooling the Easy Way this week:  How to build your library ,.

I posted this on my Lifestyle Homeschool Facebook page but not here on my blog.  My kids have had such a good time with this.  Learn the 10 Commandments in 5 minutes (It truly works!!)

Over the last week I’ve spoken to a few mums about learning to type   – here is an article from my website on that topic http://www.lifestyle-homeschool.com/learning-to-type.html

I’ve been enjoying Evernote for making digital lists.  I have lists for everything and I carry it around on my phone and have it synchronised on my desktop.  It has helped so much with a few family projects I have happening at the moment.

The other ‘technical tip’ I’ve been enjoying lately is a little Goggle tip.  If you want to find something from a particular website Google will find it for you – even if the website doesn’t have a search box for you to use.  Type the topic you are looking then the ‘site’ command which is:  site:[enter the website name]

For example – if I want to find everything I have written about conversations on Lifestyle Homeschool I can Google it by typing in:

Conversations site:lifestyle-homeschool.com

Check it out – I love it.  It is so quick and works on most sites.  (For searches on Homeschoolblogger you need to use the whole URL)