Fresh Joy. . . Helping Kids Succeed

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Offering you Hope   .   And a Joyful Journey

Parents and Kids  .   Together  .  Finding Joy   .   Even in the Tough Stuff  .  Even Today

Fresh Joy . . . Helping Our Kids Succeed

Do you know your child’s dreams?

What does your child like to do?

Or think [...]

Fresh Joy. . .Heart Help for April Edginess

April feels light and bright.

Flowers and warmer weather lift us up.

Yet April can bring pressure and its own “edginess.”

Yard work looms and a slew of upcoming “calendar jammers” such as graduations, recitals,        showers, weddings, game days, prize days all feel like extra pressure. [...]

Staying Close, While Letting Go

Staying Close, While Letting Go
How to parent our college students and our grown-up “kids”

By Virginia Vagt

We want to do both, don’t we?

Yes.  We want to let go and let our children grow up.  And we want to stay close.

No matter our philosophy of family life, parenting young children and teens looks different than [...]

Fresh Joy . . . December Joy

HI everyone,

Hey remember . . .  we’re moving in to our Word Press site!

We’re bringing our newsletters with us . . .need to bring them in as posts.  December Joy. . .a keeper!

December Joy for Homeschool Moms – How to Find It, How to Keep it

What’s December like for you? For most of us December [...]

Fresh Joy . . . Summer Parenting?

Fun to start thinking about – even in March!

Summer Parenting ? ! ?  Yessirree!

What in the world is summer parenting?

During summer we live more simply, cook more simply, and we’re slightly less scheduled.

Even if we work outside our home (or are looking for a job!) our summer days feel more relaxed.   Summer tasks are [...]