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| Name: | Jaylyn |
| E-mail address: | derbyrage@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I love this site. It inspires me to be a better mom |
| Name: | Erin Kirby |
| E-mail address: | soycd@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I adore this site. Weeks like this one, I remember that no matter how trying it can be to have children, there is still inspiration and fun to be had. And I find ideas here that remind me what fun really is, and what the magic of childhood can be. Thank you for sharing ideas, and creating a ripple in the tradition of child rearing. Much love |
| Name: | Melissa Schutte |
| E-mail address: | homeschooling3@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoy reading your stuff.We have done some of the crafts.Your site reminds me not to stress and let my kids learn more naturally.
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| Name: | Brianna Ybarra |
| E-mail address: | superpipster@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I love your site! I have 4 children and I learn something new with each of them. I wish I could've been as relaxed with the 1st as I am with the 4th and learned to just sit back and enjoy the simple and insane things they do way earlier in mommyhood. My sister is having trouble with her 2 yr old and a few of your articles are sure to be helpful to her!! I am so excited to share them!! Thankyou soo much! |
| Name: | Cari Goodman |
| E-mail address: | mail4cari@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Great site! Will be passing it on to all my friends. |
| Name: | Helen MacFarlane |
| E-mail address: | ben.macfarlane1@bigpond.com |
| Comments: | Alicia
I have tread in similar shoes to you, rebuilding my soul as well as watching my husband rebuild his. We have two beautiful children, one of which is stricken with Cystic Fibrosis. Please can you to give me ideas on what we can do in a small hospital room. We just got released yesterday after a weeks visit (her first)..I love your blogs, you are a treasure Thank you Helen, Ben, Asha Rose and CJ X |
| Name: | Cheryl |
| E-mail address: | flmassageddict@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for your "What should a 4 year old know" article. It put me in my place for sure and opened my eyes to my instincts again. Life can become a cloudy place with all of the input people want to give, good and bad! |
| Name: | Angela |
| E-mail address: | angearmitage@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Just wanted to let you know that I adore your website and blog. I'm inspired everytime I visit to *be* the mother I want my children to remember. Thank you! |
| Name: | Angela Burke |
| E-mail address: | ss14black@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hey i love what u did with this site!
Angie |
| Name: | Alex Nimri |
| E-mail address: | girlnimri@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I just read your article about what a 4 year old should know. As you mentioned I got answers such as counting to 100 and writing their first and last name perfectly. I was feeling down and blue and even considered the possibility of my child having a learning disability. As i kept reading it i began to cry. We forget how important it is to let our kids be kids. Today everything is so competative and kids are learning 3 languages, and learning how to read before kindergarden.You reminded me of the really important things about parenting, such as the time spent with your chilld and the importance of reading to them. You are an inspiration. Thank you so much for your article. |
| Name: | Exploring Erin |
| E-mail address: | soycd@comcast.net |
| Comments: | This week has been a challenge with my child, and made me wonder if I am being too uptight for two year old joy. But reading things like one minute wackiness made me laugh several times... and gave me hope into lightening up and remembering what it is to live life. for happiness.
Thank you for your smiles and inspiration :) |
| Name: | cheryl bray |
| E-mail address: | cheryl@brayhomes.com |
| Comments: | I LOVE your articles..Thanks so much for sharing... |
| Name: | Christine |
| E-mail address: | nelsonca@san.rr.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I came across your page while googling for homeschool acitivities for my just turned 4 year old son. Every friend of mine has his/her child in preschool. Unfortunately my husband lost his job and extra money on this is not possible right now. However, I am seeing this as a blessing because I am turning to homeschool ways and I feel like I am slowing down for a lack of better words and paying more attention to my child everyday. I printed out your page on what a 4 year old should know because it almost made me cry. I plan on keeping this with me everyday and look at it when I feel like he is missing out not being in school. Thank you for re-directing me. |
| Name: | Leila |
| E-mail address: | marykay4every1@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thank you so much for all of your ideas! I love them and cannot wait to try some of them with my amazing 5 year old daughter. I also want more than anything for my daughter to be happy and to remember her childhood as being full of happiness and messes and laughs and hugs and kisses! Thanks again and good luck with everything! Oh and your kids are adorable! |
| Name: | Christin |
| E-mail address: | christinnjon@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.christinnjon.wordpress.com |
| Comments: | Hi Alicia! Just wanted to drop a note and let you know I'm featuring you on my blog on Tuesday, Jan. 13 '09. Your site is definately worth the mention and I thank you for all you have done here! :) |
| Name: | Tanya |
| E-mail address: | tanyaf1273@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I signed your guest book in February 08 and am back again! When I last signed your book, my daughter was 3 1/2 mo. old.. Karlie is now a happy and healthy 14 months and it's partly due to your site. You have given me so many ideas for keeping my little one happy and participating in a way that allows her to feel important! She just loves popsicles and "coloring" in the tub :) And yes, I have caught myself hollering "There's a polecat on my back!!" a number of times over the past year too! LOL Anyway, thank you thank you thank you for such a lovely site! I come back again and again, and each time I'm inspired to be a better mother, a better parent, a better friend to my little girl. Your insight and wisdom have enabled me to make memories with her that she'll remember forever :) |
| Name: | hi |
| E-mail address: | hi@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://hi |
| Comments: | THis is a cool site |
| Name: | Kristie |
| E-mail address: | kaliki76@aol.com |
| Comments: | I really like your site! Your bio gave me goosebumps! I hope my son can look back on his childhood and have very fond, joyful memories as well! |
| Name: | Anne McConnell |
| E-mail address: | lamcpnp@gmail.com |
| Comments: | I'd like to subscribe to the newsletter. Thanks for a wonderful read for moms. |
| Name: | Jodie B |
| Comments: | What a beautiful site. I wrote down the address when I was first pregnant 5 years ago. I found that piece of paper again and looked up the site today, now a mother of two wonderful children. Your letters to your children brought tears to my eyes and I love the ideas you have suggested to make every day magical. Thank you for sharing your magic with us all! |
| Name: | Nickie |
| E-mail address: | nickiedcc@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for all of the great craft suggestions and the tears as I read your beautiful poems:-) |
| Name: | McKenzie |
| E-mail address: | mckenzie_03801@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
I just have to say that this is a wonderful website. I came across it by searching the web with "What my 4-year old should know." My son is "developmentally-delayed" and what you wrote in your article was so true. It often hurts when other parents can list millions of things that their kids can do, but they do not stop to realize some of the most important things in this world...that our kids know they are loved, how to enjoy nature and the beautiful world around us, be happy, and so much more. I just read a bunch of your articles, and they are so down to earth an true. I particularily loved "taming the tornado". Its nice to take a step back and realize what is important in life. It feels as though my busy days and schedule have taken over, then the kids (which are 2 and 4) just seem to be on a crazy tear, and everything is stressful. When really, they may be at the time, but I think that it is usually me who is having the problem and my kids are just doing what kids do. But thanks again, I'm spreading the word, and hope to be back to your page quite often!! |
| Name: | Marilyn |
| E-mail address: | marilyn.miller@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Oh I just found your Magical Childhood site!! It is absolutely wonderful! I love working with children and making things with them. Please put me on your email list as I was unable to add my name. Thank you. |
| Name: | christy |
| E-mail address: | isaiah5916@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Wonderful site! THanks |
| Name: | Meggiecat |
| E-mail address: | meggiecat2002@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://meggiecat.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | I read your bio. I do like your site! Thanks for the whacky watercolors recipe...what fun. |
| Name: | Melissa Schutte |
| E-mail address: | homeschooling3@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi,
I really got a smile from your site.Alot of the things on it we already do.But,It gave me a few more fun things to do w/ my sweeties.what in the world would we do w/o kids?Life is never boring.What a blessing they are. Melissa S. |
| Name: | Victoria |
| Comments: | :D It's great! |
| Name: | sairu |
| E-mail address: | sairu.raut@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.atticanecdotes.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | this is indeed a truly magical site. all the contents are extremely captivating and encourage me in many ways. am a student studying mass media. and i love children alot. i feel they are happy angels who dont judge you and dont have one cruel bone in them. they make us happy and remind us to live life each day as it comes. i love them the most when they laugh. keep up the happy work.
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| Name: | Melanie Dunigan |
| E-mail address: | meldunigan@aol.com |
| Comments: | Thank you SO MUCH for producing all the wonderful things on this website, I'm just looking for ideas to share with the mums in my MOPS group and this is a fantastic site to direct them towards. You must be an amazing mum.
May God continue to Bless you! With Love from England. |
| Name: | Esther |
| E-mail address: | esswasey@gmail.com |
| Comments: | Thank you so much! I have needed a page like this to keep me in focus. |
| Name: | Megan |
| E-mail address: | spookymeggie@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I found your site while doing some research for a casual comic project I'm beginning. What I was looking for was ideas about the world a child inhabits and their relationships with their parents or parent. Thank you for your efforts and your time, and your loving, loving outlook. Your articles are affectionate without being saccharine and sincere without being preachy. For a woman who has survived as much as your biography suggest you have, you have emerged as a triumph. Your children are lucky to have such a reflective, funny and dedicated mother, and I'm sure you know how lucky you are to have them. Thanks! |
| Name: | Megan |
| E-mail address: | spookymeggie@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I found your site while doing some research for a casual comic project I'm beginning. What I was looking for was ideas about the world a child inhabits and their relationships with their parents or parent. Thank you for your efforts and your time, and your loving, loving outlook. Your articles are affectionate without being saccharine and sincere without being preachy. For a woman who has survived as much as your biography suggest you have, you have emerged as a triumph. Your children are lucky to have such a reflective, funny and dedicated mother, and I'm sure you know how lucky you are to have them. Thanks! |
| Name: | Sara |
| E-mail address: | saraheather2540@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | WOW!!! THIS IS SUCH A GREAT SITE!!! I LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS!!!! GREAT JOB!!! |
| Name: | Maria Jesusa Tequillo |
| E-mail address: | mjtequillo@yahoo.com |
| Comments: |
Truly helpful and inspiring insights! Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and ideas with us all. You are also a blessing to us all. May God bless you, too, always. |
| Name: | Maria Jesusa Tequillo |
| E-mail address: | mjtequillo@yahoo.com |
| Comments: |
Looking for the best free online educational ebooks, then onto Preschool homeschooling, I stumbled upon your most generous website which immediately captured my interest since it's about A Magical Childhood...a half-reality childhood dream of mine which I've been trying my best to give our four precious children, a boy and three girls, 10,9 8, and 4 yrs old. Thank you for sharing your journal with us, with lots of helpful and inspiring insights I wish to incorporate, too, in our daily life. May God bless you, too, always. |
| Name: | Leigh Patterson (UK) |
| E-mail address: | girleigh1987@aol.com |
| Comments: | What a wonderful website... full of fun and perspective! |
| Name: | Cindy Geil |
| E-mail address: | cindel1@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I really LOVE your website! It is so wonderful! A lot of things on your site remind me of my childhood, and I always thought my mother was crazy. Now I know she was just wonderful! My kids also love the fun and silly ideas you share! I hope your website is around forever!
A thankful mom! Cindy |
| Name: | Tanya |
| E-mail address: | tanyaf1273@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I just read I Promise: An Open Letter to my Baby
February 16, 2001 and am in tears. After several days of being exasperated with my 3 1/2 mo. old daughter being on a crying jag due to teething, this was exactly what I needed to put things in perspective. You've inspired me to write a letter of my own and post it on the refrigerator where I can read it every time I get in a funk. THANK YOU for making me remember how little she is right now and how much she needs me to be her comfort zone and warrior. THANK YOU for your magical insight which has inspired me today to be more understanding with a pair of fresh eyes! |
| Name: | Alicia |
| E-mail address: | rmcmain@roadrunner.com |
| Name: | amanda |
| E-mail address: | dillonsmommy@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thank you SO much for sharing all of this!! I LOVE everything! |
| Name: | Maureen Price |
| E-mail address: | PSTeacherMPrice@aol.com |
| Comments: | I stumbled on your website today while looking for recycling activities for my classroom. I want to tell you how much I truely enjoyed your ideas, humor and honesty in your writings, so much so I was up at 4:30 AM, California time it is now 9:50 AM. How time does fly. Thank you for your magical ideas and for sharing it with all the world.
Maureen Price Modesto, California |
| Name: | Dianna |
| E-mail address: | bigfootblooper@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I love the pages I have looked at and think your very crafty. I will hope to visit your site again in the future.
Enjoy life. |
| Name: | Kathi |
| E-mail address: | kjdebaker@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hi again Alicia:
Very impressed again. I'm married and live in WI, we have 3 daughters....ages 4, 6 and 15 and I love your site. I read your post on mamasource. I'll be spreading your website on to other moms in my area. Hope you don't mind?? Thanks again ~Kathi DeBaker |
| Name: | Barbara |
| E-mail address: | thenepps@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Thank you for such a lovely website! What a great way to share ideas and activities with others! I'll be back often to check in and see what you are up to and to get ideas for activities for my kids.
Barbara in Minnesota |
| Name: | Misty Dolph |
| E-mail address: | mdolph@skyecom.net |
| Comments: | Hi! I came upon your site as I was searching for information on whether you should teach four and five year olds to write the alphabet. I am a preschool teacher and part of the curriculum that all of the teachers use is the weekly practice of letter worksheets on which the children trace and attempt to write the letters themselves. Maybe three children out of twelve have the fine motor skills to do this and the other nine just struggle and scribble. My heart kept telling me that they are too young to be pushing such a skill, but it was what all the other teachers do. I found your article about what a four year old should know and I was almost in tears. I'm going to share it with all of the parents in my class. This is how I feel I should teach the little ones in my class. Lots of love, compassion, tons of reading (which we already do) and just enjoying childhood and the many experiences it brings. Thank you for your words of wisdom that have inspired a rookie teacher to go against the norm and follow her heart! I also want to thank you for your great articles about spending time with your children. It has been a rough night around our house and I lost my temper and yelled at my three precious ones who are 13, 10 and 6. I was reading where you said to shout out random crazy things like "I have a moneky on my head!" Well, I did this to my six year old and told him I had a pole cat on my back and that ever so often it would climb up onto my head and make me yell when I really didn't mean to. He thought it was hilarious and checked down the back of my shirt to see if he could find it. I apologized to all three of them and felt a tremendous sense of relief. Thank you for sharing your life! |
| Name: | Angel Weber |
| E-mail address: | weberba@rrcnet.org |
| Comments: | Hi Alicia! Jan gave me your website address today during our home visit so I thought I'd pop in to say Hi! Our family participates in a weekly family meeting and we started a family newsletter which I'd love to put on the internet. Everyone is involved and they can't wait till they are passed out. We were issuing them every 2 weeks but have decreased to once per month because of printer ink. Have a good week! Angel Weber |
| Name: | Jessica Curtis |
| E-mail address: | jessicacurtis@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.msn.com |
| Comments: | Love, Love, LOVE your site! |
| Name: | Sally Roark |
| E-mail address: | sroark001@comcast.net |
| Comments: |
My mother in law always asked my husband, 'what new word did they learn this week?' - I always replied 'they are happy!' My mom would never ask what new word, she would always ask ' how are they?'.............. What different lives they live..... what different childhood's we had. I always tell people I am am my mothers child.....she has more friends than anyone I know and I inspire to be so lucky. Children need to be aloud to be just that......swim in lakes, stay up late and sleep late, enjoy learning though fun and BE HAPPY. |
| Name: | Suzanne |
| E-mail address: | sueparry@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My only child is Victoria Rose; 14 months old. I hope we can have more but at 42 we have already been so lucky!! Victoria wakes 4/5 times a night for breastfeeding so I'm tired and always ill with whatever bug is going around. But Victoria is beautiful, happy, healthy. I loved your poem to Victoria at 1 and a half - it could have been written for me! Someone said to me "Babies are Miracles!" Oh how they are! Victoria's bow legged toddle; her percussion on my pots and pans; her decorative ideas about self feeding; her mussed baby hair; her laughter..... I used to write poetry decades ago - I think my baby might inspire me to wax lyrical once more!! |
| Name: | Kelly |
| Comments: | Thank you for creating this site. I have bookmarked it and will definitely be back to remind myself of all the wonderful things I can do with my boys to help make their childhoods magical. |