Summer Family Overload: Dealing with Family Over the Summer
During the summer, you’ll most likely end up spending a large chunk of your free time with your family. Learn to love and honor them.
During the summer, you’ll most likely end up spending a large chunk of your free time with your family. Learn to love and honor them.
Summer is here and the weather is cooking. We’ve got the perfect books for reading by the poolside or at the beach when you’re looking for something to match the sizzling hot sun.
It’s finally summer, the sweltering hot season of friends, boys and dynamic outfits. Yes, the sizzling months have arrived and you are armed and ready with the summer’s hottest trends.
Summer has arrived, and that means no school and loads of down-time with family and friends. Now that homework’s been safely tucked away and the bell is no longer regulating your routine, it’s time to take the next few months to create a summer you and your girls will never forget. So instead of lying around watching rerun after rerun of High Potential and Gilmore Girls, or spending seven hours a day at the mall, check out our ideas for the simple summer of a lifetime:
Finally, the moment you’ve been waiting for since school started last August…summer! Now that the finals frenzy is over, you deserve a break. However, after a couple of weeks, make sure your slow-down doesn’t become utter laziness.
Your parents don’t judge and dislike the digital content you consume just to irritate you. They have an opinion about today’s media because they come from a different generation.
Not everyone loves like you do, which is why The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman is so popular and informative. Use these short descriptions to help you better grasp your own language of love, as well as the languages of those you love. By understanding yourself and others better, you can develop a truer and stronger relationship.
It’s disheartening when we don’t feel loved by others, but through those relationships we can learn more about how to express love than through the relationships that naturally express love.
You’ve had a hard week and you can’t wait to share with someone close to you all about the ups and downs you experienced. You love talking to your close guy friend, but he doesn’t always understand you. Your best friend always wants to provide encouragement, which is nice, but right now you just need someone to listen. You could talk to your dog, but you do desire some sort of input. Really, you just want to talk to your mom. After all, she is your closest friend and she knows you more than anyone else.
The climb up the mountain wasn’t any more difficult than we imagined, but the altitude sickness was horrific. The summer before my daughter’s senior year of high school, she decided to join a school group on a wilderness adventure trip. Always one for a good time, I agreed to go along as a chaperone–after all how hard could it be?