Tag: mental-health
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Shavings and Grounds
What good are beard shavings and coffee grounds? For the Gillum family, I tend to cause irritation when I shave my face in the morning and leave little beard hairs in the sink. (To be fair, I only do it over my sink, so I fail to see the issue…lol). Another is the presence of…
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The Nintendo Prayer
With our family’s propensity to spend too much time on video games, when we got our Nintendo Switch I made the decision to put time limits on the device, specifically 15 minutes before getting locked out and asking for parent permission to reactivate. It creates a fun interaction most afternoons after school where one of…
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Pine needles are for kids
For Thanksgiving this year, our family stayed out in the woods outside of Arkadelphia, AR. It was a beautiful spot, secluded, quiet, and with a ton of trees. My three year old (like any reasonable three year old) upon seeing the trees and the hills and the lake below, decided he’d take off at a…
And yet, and yet... 