Monthly Archives: September 2008

FrankenTreats!

And I thought I was doing swell by making rice crispy treats and sprinkling the leftover half bag of chocolate chips over the pan of treats while it was still warm.
Check out the Halloween Treat Recipes at Parenting.com for more suggestions. Here’s a suggestion for their Frankentreats.
1) make or purchase rice crispy treats. Put them [...]

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Problems with raising a writer

Sure, it’s easy to say “raise a writer” and incorporate these four great project ideas:

Creative Captions
Personal Journal
A family paper
A wish book.

But what do you do when your ten or eleven year old is writing up character sketches and the intro to a story but can’t get past the first chapter? We get Powerpoint presentations [...]

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