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Category: For the Grown-Ups
For the Grown-Ups
Support for Working Parents with Young Children
How do you manage work when you are caring for a young child? Whether you’re squeezing in just a few tasks or trying to find some regular habits for working at home with kids, we have some time-tested ideas to suggest.
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Make Valentine’s Day Your Own
What makes you feel the most lit up, abundant, and love-filled? Whatever that is, do it — because it will spill over into everyone around you.
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Advent Activities
Eight Ways to Make Halloween Extra-Magical This Year
With its rich history and beautiful culture, Halloween is an opportunity to experience something new in yourself. Here are my thoughts about how you can bring extra magic to this Halloween!
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Everyone’s So Tired (Get Some Rest!)
Are you with me? Do you count yourself among the ranks of the too busy and awfully tired? That’s why we’re devoting this week to “Getting Some Rest.”
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Parent Support on Sparkle YouTube
We have many nuggets of real-talk from Lisabeth on our YouTube channel. Listen in to our Sparkle founder and momma to two boys. Let her support your parenting week!
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Ten Ways the Sparkle Team Navigates Big Parenting Milestones
Kids starting kindergarten. Kids starting college. First day of senior year. First fall that there’s no return-to-school (college graduate!). We Sparkle Team parents — Ann, Lisabeth, Susan, & Trish — offer up ten ways to navigate these big parenting milestones!
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How About Let’s Start with Letting You Be You?
Lisabeth offers some sage advice about how to harness the power of YOU!
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Want to Grow Grit? Patience? Courage? Ease?
What qualities do you need in your life? What about your kids? Listen to others who embody those qualities and find stories about them. You will find they stir and draw out those very same qualities — qualities that are readily available but just dormant.
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“I’ve only got a minute to myself!” Ideas to rest and reset no matter how much time you have.
We’ve made you a list — because there ARE things you can do, even if you just have a minute. Here are some of our favorite rest and reset activities.
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For the Grown-Ups
Growing Handy Skills, Sparkle Story-Style
It's GOOD for us to work with our hands. Creative hand-work pursuits bring out the best in us and free our minds and spirits. Plus, when kids learn to cook, or knit, or sew, or build, they also grow a foundation of capableness and confidence. There's nothing like knowing you can DO for yourself and others.
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