Posted on June 30, 2010 by LJ
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Although my daughter is too young to have assigned summer reading, she participates in the summer reading programs at her school and the local library. Managing her reading means helping her find books, reminding her to read, tracking progress and managing the books [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on April 9, 2010 by LJ
This week I am bringing over posts from LauraEarnest.com. Managing our energy is one task that working parents face daily. Given the demands on us from both the office and home, we can quickly become drained. An old article over at Lifehack.Org, The 7 Energy Sinkholes And How To Avoid [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on March 4, 2010 by LJ
Picking up can be a hassle. I know of no young children, who when given the task of picking up their toys, will not try to get out of it. The sad truth is that without some sort of strategy to corral toys, they would quickly take over all living [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 25, 2010 by LJ
Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Since the end of our school semester is this week, and my daughter has four “adjusted dismissal days” (read: half-days), I decided now would be a good time to share how I work from home while my daughter is there. Note: I normally [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on January 1, 2010 by LJ
This week I’m giving myself a break from writing. Over the next two months, I will be integrating worthy posts from my other blog, LauraEarnest.com, in preparation for shutting it down. The next five days will be the first wave of posts to come over. A neighbor of mine was [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on August 28, 2009 by LJ
My daughter, now 7, has discovered the power of money. She is very aware, thanks to my hiatus from employment last year, that money buys things, and we have to make choices on how we spend our money. She is not exempt from the gimmes, though. Tired of the barrages [...]
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