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Managing Your Home
Family Life, Managing Your Home, Going Green
Family Life, Managing Your Home
Family Life, Managing Your Home, Home Improvements and Maintenance
By Sa'iyda Shabazz
  • Family Life
    Going Green

    This activity teaches children how to make a compost pile and how to recycle.

  • Family Life
    Home Improvements and Maintenance

    Kids can build their window cleaning skills -- and make a bit of money -- by offering their services to others.

  • Family Life
    Home Improvements and Maintenance

    Kids can build their snow and leaf removal skills -- and make a bit of money -- by offering their services to others.

  • Family Life
    Organizing Your Home

    This article provides advice on how to organize your family's shared spaces, possessions, and tasks.

  • Family Life
    Organizing Your Home

    Here are some great tips on how to organize your life.

  • Family Life
    Managing Your Home

    Learn how to prepare your family in the case of a hurricane.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Let your child select a designated number of seed packets after you have sketched out a garden plan.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Strawberries are easy to grow, delicious to eat, and the plant bears fruit for years.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Your child can learn how to grow seedlings indoors, then transplant them outside.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Follow the easy instructions in this activity, and you can have your own bountiful pumpkin harvest!

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Follow these instructions for growing lemons, oranges, grapefruits, and potatoes with your child.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Indoor herb gardening is easy and fun, and in two to four weeks, you can have great results!

  • Family Life
    Organizing Your Home

    Posting a list of acceptable behavior helps parents be consistent and lets children know what is expected of them.

  • Family Life
    Organizing Your Home

    Doing chores helps children learn responsibility, teamwork, and practical skills. Follow these instructions to make a chores chart, which will help to keep your child on task and diligent.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    Plant tomatoes early in the growing season, about two or three weeks after the last frost.

  • Family Life
    Going Green

    The key to a healthy garden is good soil, and the best way to improve soil is with compost.

  • Family Life
    Organizing Your Home

    By trying to provide the best of everything for their child, are parents actually stealing his childhood?

  • Family Life
    Managing Your Home

    Find out what to do when children experience culture shock after moving to a new country.

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