Spending quality time with your children in ANY size family

Hey guys, I hope your day is fantastic!! In today's video I am sharing how you can manage some time in your busy life to spend quality one on one with your children. Enjoy!
You can visit my blog and get a lot of FREE homeschool curriculum and encouragement for your home over at
I also have a FREE home economics course that you can have your young daughters do to help them learn homemaking and kitchen skills at my blog. It is good for middle ,high school credit or even an older woman looking to increase her basic skills.
You can order my book: “Large Family Mothering” to help manage and set up your home, no matter what size family you have.

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You can order my “Home Economics Course” to help train up your daughters or help refine your skills as a homemaker

Home Economics Kitchen Skills

Home Economics Household and Personal Skills

You can also help your sons by training them up in household tasks that they will need to be successful in life by buying my book” Life Skills for Young Men”

I also offer entire year curriculum for all of your homeschooling needs. These books cover the basic and will give your children the information they need to pass the standardized end of year testing.

First grade basic skills

Second grade basic skills

Third grade basic skills

Fourth grade basic skills

Fifth grade basic skills

Sixth grade basic skills

Seventh grade basic skills

Eighth grade basic skills

Cursive writing practice

Need some summer review to help your child remember those important skills before the coming school year or just keep them busy through the summer time?

Summer review of first grade

Summer review of second grade

Summer review of third grade

Summer review of fourth grade

Summer review of fifth grade


Items I use all the time:

These are the plastic deli containers you see in my freezer cooking videos

[julieanneprice]

What a great positive talk and truthful explanation to something that has been such a negative in today's media a la Duggar.
Our oldest is 39 youngest 19 and they are so cute together huddled over a car engine or sitting at family dinner talking .... lol cars, but sometimes girls then to see that 19 yo riding bikes (lol or playing cars) with his 3 & 4 yo nephews. Then to hear the 4 yo say "you are a nice man"
(the youngest of 10 struggles to feel like a total grown up!!)

[salemthorup]

These are great ideas. I do need to say one thing. Please don't assume that when you see older kids taking care of younger kids a lot that the parents had a lot of kids for that purpose. There are situations that it happens out of necessity. And it doesn't hurt the older kids. You seem like someone who naturally has more energy. I'm sure you get tired, but there's no way that many mothers would be able to do what you do. Physically they'd be too limited to get it all done. I only have 4 kids, 3 living, another on the way. I never intended for my health to fall apart in my 20's.
I know many would say to stop having kids, but that's not really for anyone else to decide. Also, I'm figuring out my health gradually and I'm not going to wait until I feel perfect to grow my family. I only have so many years of fertility and have already struggled with it. We will take the children God bless us with and have faith that He'll help us raise them the way they are meant to be raised. And I don't want huge gaps between my kids. With my daughter dying, there's already one 8 1/2 year gap.

Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but it seemed kind of judgmental. Which seems strange to me coming from someone that I would think would know better than to judge other people's family planning and parenting styles.

I am the third of 9. My mom did a lot for us. Yes, we helped with the younger kids. I wish there had been more expected of us. My parents are amazing and I'm so grateful for everything they've done. I just have seen how my parents taking on so much and not sharing the family responsibilities a little bit more didn't really help us.
But to each their own. I don't know exactly what your family dynamic looks like. You obviously have a lot of things figured out.

[csekegabi]

Woaw! There is so much wisdom in this! You remind me of Susanna Wesley.😉

[riadrossos-usa]

I’m going to buy your book, where can i find it ?

[sohappytogether]

Simple and great ideas! Thanks!! Im using checklists more than scheduling, but I would love to..
Just have a question, how can you schedule with a bunch of littles? Looks like always "something" happens..baby wont nap, a toddler is in trouble, the strong willed is angry..etc etc. 😮