My Eight Year Old Sewed New Pillows, And You Can Too
Lee, super proud of the two pillows he just sewed! Today was a busy, busy, busy day in my house- the Penniless full home makeover on a budget is well underway and today most of the work and transformation was done. As I was sewing things for the house, my 8 year old, Lee, asked […]
The Best of Penniless Parenting From 2015
Wow, 2015 has been a whirlwind of a year. So many things happening in my life, things that, if you’d asked me about them in the beginning of 2015, I would have been sure that they would never have happened, and yet, they did. It’s interesting- I was looking back over my blog stats of […]
The Benefits of Frustration (For Kids and Everyone)
Frustration- the true mother of invention I was having a discussion the other day with someone about unschooling my kids, and how I try not to push them to learn things that they aren’t interested in learning yet (yet being the key word), but rather, wait until they show an interest in learning that subject, […]
In Defense of SWYPOs
Paleo toffee bars. Totally SWYPO, totally Penny approved. I’ve been part of Paleo facebook groups for a long time, been reading a lot of Paleo recipes, simply because even if you aren’t on a strict Paleo diet, Paleo diet recipes are made from scratch recipes, using healthy ingredients. So I just was in the group […]
What Exactly Is Unschooling?
TeachYourMonsterToRead.com- because learning and fun can be simultaneous I love sharing about unschooling, the method in which we “school” or rather, precisely do not “school” our children, because I am so in love with this learning method because I see how well it works for us. Most of our “official” learning takes place via conversations […]
Giving My Daughter a Pixie Haircut
Before I became a mom, I had all sorts of ideas of what parenting would be like, and even made a whole long list of things I’d want to do with my daughters, and another list of things I’d want to do with my sons. Fast forward 8 years, and very few things of what […]
Important Lessons From Some Soda Cans
I’ve posted before about how important I think it is for kids to have real life experience with money, already from when they’re young, so that way they can learn from their mistakes when they’re still young and their mistakes don’t have as big repercussions, and I shared some ways that I allow my kids […]
Teaching My Young Children Important Money Lessons
Photo credit- anankkml; freedigitalphotos.net When I was a teenager, I said that when I had kids, I’d do certain things with my kids and money. When I was first married, I had other ideas about what I’d do to teach my kids about money management. And then when my kids were younger than they are […]
Cooking with my Kids
Today’s supper- planned by the kids, as well as partially made by them. If you haven’t guessed already, I really love cooking. (Which is probably why my blog, with the official goal of being a money saving blog, is probably more than 1/4 a cooking blog.) My husband, on the other hand… his cooking is […]
Homeschooling- Because Life Doesn’t Have To Be Miserable
Image Credit David Castillo Dominici- FreeDigitalPhotos.net My friend Kelly Sangree (author of the terrific book Hard Core Poor) is a fellow homeschooler, and wrote an article on homeschooling her kids. (One of them, anyhow. The other goes to Catholic school.) As always happens in such homeschooling related media, a firestorm broke out in the comments […]
