by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 14, 2020 | challenging, helping others, Ideas, Parenting, time alone with God, time together, tweens and teens
They’re socially-distanced, hormonal, maybe driving someone crazy. Grab 71 ideas for the quarantined, bored teens in your life. Bored teens? Start here. Make lip balm, lip scrub, or bubble bath with stuff you have around the house. Start a devotional or journal....
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by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 3, 2020 | Africa
Here in the odd twilight of Quarantine Land, it can be easy for thoughts and emotions to muddle. If you’re not naturally introspective–or even if you are–sometimes reactions can catch you out of the blue. Why’d I just snap at her? Why am I so...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 23, 2020 | children, Family, free download, Ideas, kids, motherhood, Parenting
Kids crawling up the walls? Need ideas for a little creative, active play? Let’s get to it. (I’d love your own ideas added to the comments section below!) Play restaurant–maybe with a little bit of real food (today’s snacks, perhaps? Water,...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 22, 2020 | challenging, children, community, compassion, current events, difficulty, discouragement, emotion, fear, helping others, kids, stress
First week of COVID-19 closures: a week of strange dreams. Once, I dreamt I was driving in the dark, but my headlights kept flipping off. I kept protesting that I could hit something. Another night, I was unprepared for a trip to a writer’s conference I...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 13, 2020 | challenging, children, community, compassion, Culture, current events, difficulty, emotion, encouragement, Family, fear, helping others, Ideas, kids, listening, relationships, sharing your faith, social justice, time together
So maybe like me, you got the automated notice from the school yesterday that your kids–surprise!–have an extra week of spring break next week, because #coronavirus. And maybe like me, a member of your family braved Costco this week. Or maybe you now...
