Growing Nimble Families

    New choices to make with the new school year for everyone. What will happen in your family this year? It’s really easy to just fall into a routine with back to school but our family is different each and every year. We made different priorities depending on our stage, where we live and what’s […] The post How to prepare for the school year as a parent appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

  Families should gather together over a meal. Yeah yeah yeah! We’ve heard that before. Tried it before and it didn’t really work out. This week we we focus less on the why and more on the how we create a meal ritual so that family times run smoothly. ( For the family and us!) Leave […] The post Start your family meal ritual appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

    We only know what we know. This episode is a little different, perhaps in mindset as different education systems are shared. But the theme is simple parenting. We want all our children to make progress and achieve. The common measurement for achievement is usually solely high attainment or grades. The higher the grade […] The post Progress as a better measure for children appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

  Do you get stuck in the loop of nag, complain, wait, nag, complain and wait? We know that learning from our mistakes and failures makes us a better person but it is so so hard to see our children heading for a fall or when failure is just visible.  Parents usual are quick to […] The post When they make mistakes and fail-practical ways to help parents and children learn how to navigate this undertalked about topic during childhood appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

Character Conversation Cards are available in two formats: task cards (pdf) and an audio file. The audio file is a downloadable .mp3 file of the 25 conversation task cards read with a special effect to signal when to stop the audio to answer questions. This set is all about developing habits,goal setting, unity and cooperation and is […] The post Developing habits, Goal setting, Unity and cooperation Character Conversation Audio appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

    Summer is coming! What memories do you have of childhood? Often they are around summer. If you want to create lasting memories why not try some simple family traditions. Every season is a good opportunity to have special traditions just for that season. Summer is no different. There are lots of traditions to choose from […] The post Simple Summer Traditions for Families appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

    There are so many things that we are juggling with parenting. If this is you then this episode might be just what you’re looking for because if we’re so busy trying to keep all the plates spinning we may not realize that we don’t actually need all the plates spinning. There might be […] The post Three things we don’t rotate in our parenting but maybe we should appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

  Who doesn’t love sleep? When I cut my sleep time I know what will happen and often we assume the same thing will happen to our children. We’ll just be a little blurry and we just have to get through it! Brain science is telling us differently now. Children with sleep loss have very […] The post Why losing sleep is a big deal for kids appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

    Screens are a magnet in some homes and not in others. Lisa Weiner from Handmade Parenting in this episode talks about what types of things children can be doing if they are not on screens. We look at other screen time woes in this interview and peek into a screen free home and ask […] The post Solving Screen time woes and suggestions appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.

  If I want to have quality verbal interactions, what are 5 ways that I can improve that? The famous Hart/Risley study showed us the massive ( 30 million) word gap that happens between a low income family and other families in a very specific age group. Further down I have lots of resources to […] The post 5 easy ways to close the “Word Gap” and have quality verbal interactions appeared first on Growing Nimble Families.