Five Ways To Have Fun With Your Kids On A Snow Day.

Snow days can be great for slowing our fast paced lives down.

That's one reason why we appreciate winter so much here in Montana.

After you've had fun playing in the snow consider these five fun activities to do indoors with your children.

1. Grab a warm drink and read a book together.

2. Game night! Break out all your board games and have fun. Our kids are adults and we still have game nights. You are never to old to play games.

3. Make a fort out of kitchen chairs and sheets or break out the tent and set it up in the biggest room in the house. Add pillows, blankets, books, some toys and a flashlight.

Making The World A Little Less Heartless

The Year of Abundance! Introducing Easy Breezy Prosperity.

We are very excited to be a part of Emmanuel Dagher's official launch for his new book, Easy Breezy Prosperity. He's giving away many free gifts including our guide: 10 Tips For Parenting Consciously.

When we come across something very special, our parenting audience is the first people we always think about sharing it with. This is one of those times. Learn more about Emmanuel's book and the fantastic gift package he created when you buy his amazing new book, Easy Breezy Prosperity.

After completing this book, all we can say is we are blown away! It enhances our perspective on how to create and enhance prosperity in our own lives.

We absolutely love how Emmanuel gives humanity to the "energy" of prosperity itself, and presents it in a spiritual, yet beautifully grounding way that actually makes shifts happen!

Identity - Growing Up With Labels

Identity - Definition on Dictionary.com
The Sense of Self, Providing Sameness and Continuity In Personality

We've all seen the studies and heard the horrible stories, the ones where someone's life long career suddenly ends and within a few days they've dropped dead or committed suicide.

I don't bring this up to have a somber conversation. I tell you this to have a discussion and shed some light on a topic I don't feel receives enough attention.

The way we humans are wrapped up in our identities. The multiple roles we play as humans in a life time.

These roles are important and help shape our outer form, but when we tie everything we are into these roles and they suddenly change, the walls can come crashing down. Sometimes the change is planned and sometimes it's unexpected.

Let me give you an example. Jerry lives next door, he's been a logger for 25 years. Due to change in supply and demand for wood Jerry no longer can rely on his profession to pay the bills. He feels like it is the end of the world. He's a master at what he does. He's put his blood, sweat and tears into his profession. Over time it has became his identity. Everyone around his little town knows him and how he's won the local lumberjack contest several years in a row.

What If?

What if everyone had their basic needs met?

• Shelter
• Food
• Clothing
• Health Care
• Survival needs cared for

I often wonder what would the world look like if these needs where met?

Would creativity shine through?

Would people's pain bodies become healed?

Would people look forward to going to their job of choice, not because they had to but because they wanted to?

Would more entrepreneurs show up?

Would crime go down?

Would people have more tolerance for other people's beliefs?

Would there be less of a need to control others?

Would people be happier?

I invite you to ponder these questions with me.

Carol Lawrence is the owner of Social Media Help 4 U, a virtual based business that supports authors and businesses based on integrity. She is also co-authors the blog Intentional Conscious Parenting and is an assistant editor for the family and parenting community at All Things Healing. 

10 Tips for Managing and Organizing your Family!

1) Prepare a weekly healthy menu ahead of time. Once a week go grocery shopping for the ingredients you'll need to be able to stick to your menu. Make sure to include healthy low sugar breakfast items to start your kids off with brain fuel. Remember to include healthy after school snacks and items for extra curricular events during the week. On a budget? Check the local sale adds before heading out to shop. On the day of your extra after school activities stock a small ice chest full of healthy snacks or a prepared meal to have on hand to avoid the temptation of the fast food urge. Get the kids involved in learning about making healthy choices and planning out the weeks menu and getting them involved in cooking the meals.

(One of my fondest memories as a little girl was when my mom and grandma were in the kitchen cooking dinner. I was around three so to keep me occupied, I had my own cook station. A tray with a bowl and stirring utensils and extra food scraps, egg shells, vegetable scraps and such to mix away and cook my imaginary meal.) Always wash children's hands before and after handling food.


2) When your young children arrive home from school. Go through their backpacks looking for notes from the teacher, homework, or flyers for other schools events. Update your calendar right away with any new events and talk about your child's day. Make sure to ask your older children how their day was and what go over their assignments they are working on.