Why You Should Grow Food With Your Kids
Gardening can be a great family activity, and it’s an awesome way to expand your child’s food horizons, too!
Gardening can be a great family activity, and it’s an awesome way to expand your child’s food horizons, too!
I believe I’ve mentioned once or twice or fourteen-dozen times that my older son became…intensely challenging in the weeks and months right after we brought his baby brother home. He was three years old, and he was AWFUL. I feel like I can call him that because 1) he’s not, anymore, and 2) because he was objectively, literally, monumentally AWFUL.
My son throws a tantrum every morning about going to school! How do I make this transition easier for both of us?
Henry is in one room. I’m in the other. Two outfits lie before each of us. We’ve been waiting for this moment for seconds, if not minutes. And now the moment of truth has arrived. “Ready,” I call out. “Set,” Henry yells. Go. The race…
Soon our kids will be a 100 days smarter! If you celebrate this occasion at your school your child will be asked to bring 100 items to school. At first glance it might seem overwhelming, but really it can be a fun school project.
Raising kids to understand the value of money and understand the importance of saving money are daunting tasks. We try to break it down into some simple tips.
A mom to a kindergartner is asking whether she needs to start talking to her kids about current events now that her child has started school?
Five tips I’ve learned to make play group something we look forward to hosting every week.
We look at other parents say, I will never be like that! We are full of self righteous indignation and feel confident in our superior parenting skills! Then it happens. One day you recognize yourself in some other parent and it isn’t a good thing.
Since puzzles are supposed to be great for developing math skills, I put my daughter through the ultimate test— completing four different beginner jigsaw puzzles.
My two-year-old has a bit of an obsession with the iPad. In order to manage her use of it, we impose time limits and also make sure to have plenty of educational apps loaded. There are tons of apps out there for toddlers but here we’re reviewing apps that help kids learn their alphabet and identify letters.
For every time that you’re willing to say no, you get the freedom to say yes to something that’s a better fit for your family.
A four-year old girl has regressed pretty dramatically on her potty training. We try to help her family get her back on track.
We put three toddler backpacks to the test to see which was the best quality, the most for your money and of course, the cutest.
Developmental delays in preschoolers rarely set you down a straight path. What to do when you’re handed more forks in the road than you can handle.
My child who normally loves Christmas is very stressed out. Could it be related to the concept of Santa and having a feeling that everyone is lying?
Back to school seems more than a fitting time of the year to make some resolutions. A time to reinvent our routines and make them work for us.
When parenting, although it may seem like rewards and bribes are identical twins there are ways to tell the difference, and it’s an important distinction.
I like to do less and wouldn’t we all like to enjoy our lives more? But what exactly do the authors mean by minimalist parenting, was a question that I wondered. Do they advocate living like Tibetan monks? Eschewing possessions and leaving our children to play with sticks? Does it mean letting your kids run wild with minimal parental interference? Is it hands off parenting?
Turns out it was none of those things.
There’s four weeks left before school starts and a WAHM needs childcare advice because, SUMMER.