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For this review we were sent a copy of Happy Kids Songs Workbook: Hands-on Activities to Build Character, Social and Emotional Skills along with downloads of three of Happy Kids Songs downloadable song sets: Friends and Sharing, Happiness and Attitude, and Manners and Character.

I was really excited to see this vendor come up this year. Music is a huge part of our day and lately I have been looking for some new songs to keep things interesting. Lets face it, you can only listen to the same repetitive songs before you become bored as a parent and having four children home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I’ve heard them all.

Happy Kids Songs gave us new, fresh music to listen to and learn with. These songs are a lot of fun both in sound and with the activities that accompany them. The activities are very easy to do with even young children. Specifically, Happy Kids Songs is designed to be used with children who are ages 3-8 but even my 11 and 13 year old enjoyed listening and helping me with the younger kids.

As some of you know, we are eclectic and unschoolish in Homeschooling style so Happy Kids Songs really went along with our idea of school. I was easily able to put these songs on my phone or iPad and plug it into our radio so that we could listen, learn and dance. The kids, of course, LOVED dancing to the songs and really learned great things just by listening.

We listened to these songs repeatedly and talked about the things they heard and learned through listening to them. The kids never got bored of listening and every time they did they learned something new. They truly enjoy these songs.

The workbook is a great addition as well. It contains over 122 pages of fun. The lyrics for each song and an activity sheet are included in the workbook. In the back of the workbook, parents and teachers can find great activities to do to help build the skills and lessons being taught through the songs. We did not do all of these but we did enjoy quite a few and even built upon the ideas on our own.

The workbook is reproducible for Homeschool use so copies can easily be printed for use with multiple children. I was thankful that this was an option. You can also download these same worksheets for free and print from the computer through the company when you purchase the CD’s.

The song set titles are pretty self explanatory. There are 8 titles in the series, all adding up to a huge amount of fun. For our review, as I mentioned above, we received the following:

Friends and Sharing – this song set focuses on building friendships and learning to share with others.

Happiness and Attitude – this song set focuses on being happy, making others happy and having a great attitude as well.

Manners and Character – this song set focuses on learning good manners and having a great personal character with others.

Each of these song sets are available for purchase through Happy Kids Songs website either on Amazon or iTunes for $4.95 per album of all five songs or songs can be purchased separate for $0.99. The pages within the workbook are available for free through the website but you can purchase the pre-printed Happy Kids Songs Workbook from Amazon for $12.56 at the time of this review.

You can find Happy Kids Songs in the following places online:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happykidssongs

Twitter: @howsyourfam

YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/4DrMacMusic

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Recently, my dear friend made a blog post about depression on her blog. In it, she spoke of how God looks at depression in us. All the things she posted she backed up with biblical reference. One of her mentions really struck me as truth in my own life. She mentioned that God changes children’s attitudes when you are depressed, and even when you’re not, in order to bring us to our knees. This is so very true in my life.

My beautiful daughter, Emmalee, who I mentioned last night in my post about sickness, is possibly my strongest, and my hardest child to raise. She wants things her way and will do everything to make that possible. She doesn’t throw fits, she doesn’t whine and cry but instead she will just do what she wants regardless of consequence or respect of my wishes. She is a messy but inspirational child. She is a loving but needy child. A perfect balance of good, and not-so-good all in one. And her little sister is not far off from her either, attitude-wise. Both of them are a true test for me in parenting, faith and life.

I have been looking for ways to deal with them, to learn how to live with their strong spirits and raise them as God wishes, teaching them to use their unique qualities to work for the Lord, instead of themselves. It never really dawned on me that part of their attitude is from the Lord, in order to change my own ways of life and my own attitude. God wants to bring me to my knees.

Why would I think that, you may be asking? Why would I think that God wants to bring me to my knees by causing me strife with these two beautiful children, or how could I even think that? Well, God wants all of us to be closer to him. He wants us to get down on our knees and call out to him, begging him to help us so that we are fully dependant upon him for guidance, love, and help. God is meant to be our encourager, our best friend, our Father and our confidant. It is the way of the world to turn us away from these things with him, the way of Satan to pull us apart from our Loving Father in Heaven. By bringing us to our knees, God is bringing us Home to Him, home where we belong. He is forcing us to pay attention, to listen to His Divine guidance, to share in His love and to share His love with our children and others.

Disobedience in children is all a part of God’s bigger plan to bring joy to our lives and our lives closer to him. This whole concept has completely changed my view in life when it comes to my children’s attitudes. It has helped me in my journey to be a better parent. This concept has challenged me, has shown me the truth behind what God wants from me. The crazy part is that it was there the WHOLE time, but I was just too stubborn to listen. Well, I am listening now and I am thankful for the sweet lady who God led to write this blog post on depression, for it has truly changed my own life and those of my children for the better.

“Don’t make God yell, listen the first time.”
– A friend from my past.