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Busy winter evenings call for simple comfort food dinners. This easy Weeknight Cheesy Taco Pasta recipe takes just 25 minutes to throw together, but is warm and filling for the whole family! Why should you have to decide between tacos and pasta tonight, when you can mash up both dishes in this super easy Weeknight Cheesy Taco Pasta? What this recipe lacks in beauty, it makes up for in flavor and simplicity — and, you can have dinner on the table in just 25 minutes. Sometimes you just need an easy kid-pleasing recipe on a busy weeknight, and this pot...

 Old school punishments. Gone. Many with good reason.But wait, not so fast . . . Parents, most of us, do the best we can with our children. What the best is, though, changes over time, from generation to generation. And that's a good thing. As society progresses, science and psychology advance and become more accessible in the main stream, parents have more information, more options, better ways to approach parenting, behavior modification and, yes, punishment.  True story: My oldest is very headstrong. I won't say he got it from be but . . . OK, I'll say it, he got it...

These printable Christmas emotions spinners offer a fun way to talk with young children about the emotions they feel during the holiday season. Printable Christmas Emotions Spinners Featuring fun and familiar Christmas characters – Santa Claus and Miss Gingerbread – each spinner includes graphics depicting four different emotions, everything from joy to sadness, fear to tiredness. They are a wonderful introductory activity for talking about commonly experienced emotions and make a great holiday addition to your social emotional learning toolkit. RELATED: You may also like our free, printable Emotions Cards and activity ideas and our mindful breathing exercise cards. Directions...

 Happy December!Here are 2 Free Reindeer printables to use with your young students. The first is a literacy worksheet and the second is a science & literacy worksheet. The first is a Reindeer Word Search Puzzle and the second is a Reindeer Diagram Worksheet. The Reindeer Word Search contains the names of Santa's 9 reindeer! Included are:  Blitzen Comet Cupid Dancer Dasher Donder Prancer Rudolph Vixon   The words are listed horizontal and vertical on the worksheet. Students can have fun finding the 9 reindeer names and then coloring the worksheet. When using this worksheet, I always emphazize the fact that all proper names...

Ultimate Holiday Checklist Advice & Homeschooling Episode 379 with Janice Campbell Are you ready for the holidays? Here is holiday checklist advice from two homeschool veterans, Felice Gerwitz and Janice Campbell. Both have homeschooled during the holidays for many years and have much to share with you! Visit my special guest’s website! Get to know Janice Campbell: Bookstore: Everyday-Education.com Literature resources Excellence-In-Literature.com Blog: DoingWhatMatters.com Product page: Doing What Manners Printable Planner Janice Campbell and her husband, Donald, homeschooled their four sons from preschool into early college using a lifestyle of learning approach influenced by Charlotte Mason and classical education. A lifelong...