A House of Peace

How do you install peace and warmth into your home amid the chaos of the day? In particular, how do you help your home feel welcoming when your husband comes home from work?

Hostess with the Most-ess

What makes someone a good hostess?

Buried under Paper Piles

How do you organize all of the papers/documents/bills that come into your home? Do you have paper piles? How do you manage them?

Slowpokes

How do you motivate the child who takes FOREVER to do something?
(This is the child who takes quite a while to get dressed or plays/sings while getting dressed. The child isn’t rebelling or disobeying, just taking her time.)

Fathers and Daughters

What is the role of a father in raising daughters? What are some specific things your husband does, your father did with you, you wish your father did, etc that you see as necessary for a father's hand in helping your daughters as they grow into womanhood?

Mothers and Sons

What is a mother's role in raising her son(s)? What are some specific things she can do to help encourage his growing up into a man?

Picture, Picture on the Wall

Can it be detrimental to hang family/kid photos around the house and in the kids' room? I heard someone say that too many individual photos of the kids can make them arrogant and think the world revolves around them. What do you think?

Figure it Out

How do you teach your kids to work out fights/issues on their own, without parental involvement? At what age should they be able to do this? Do you have suggestions for what worked for you, either as a kid growing up or with teaching your own kids?

Throw a fit!

Are any of your kids screamers and/or tantrum throwers? How do you handle that? What are your methods for stopping them?

Mountains of Laundry

How and where do you keep your dirty laundry prior to washing it? Do you have any sort of storage system?

Toughen up

How do you encourage/help/train your kids to be "tough"? How do balance sensitivity in the picture so the kid isn't a brute?

Different

What 3 things are different than you thought they would be (or something you didn't even think about) now that you are a mom?

Green

How GREEN are you? Do you make your own cleaning supplies? Do you use cloth diapers? Do you make your own diaper wipes? Is "being green" important to you?

Sleeping in -- ha!

In honor of MB's facebook post:

Do you set a time before which your kids cannot emerge from their bedrooms? How do you teach a toddler to sleep in?

Age and Stage

What's your favorite baby/kid age or stage? What's the favorite thing about the current age of your kid(s)?