Don’t Quit Before Your Parenting Shift is Over
It’s easy to get frustrated by the long days of parenting and want to essentially quit before your shift is over. Don’t. It’s not fair to anyone. Including you.
It’s easy to get frustrated by the long days of parenting and want to essentially quit before your shift is over. Don’t. It’s not fair to anyone. Including you.
My daughter insists she’s done with diapers but I’m not so sure. How do I know when it’s really time to ditch the nighttime pull-up?
I know that many kids these days struggle from the alphabet soup of disorders. Why aren’t we talking about it more openly?
I’m having second thoughts about our daycare provider. Should I listen to my gut or are my mommy instinct overreacting?
Practical ways to teach kids at each age about taking care of bills and the household budget.
I could spend the next hour reassuring my kids not to be scared or….
I love my daycare provider…but not her kid. What to do when there’s a bully in the playgroup. We have some advice.
Mornings and bedtimes with the kids easier when they use a chart so I can give fewer reminders.
I like to work smart and sometimes we need some techniques to help us learn, or just remember so we can look smarter than our fifth grader. Here’s a list of the mnemonics that I think every parent should know.
Here are some free bookmarks for you and your family to use. It’s a gift from us to you to celebrate Drop Everything And Read Day.
What about redshirting from the other side of the equation, when these boys are getting ready to graduate and move on to college. Six, eight, ten years later are the parents still happy with their decision?
You can do a better job of capturing your child in a photo than the school photographer, I promise, even if you don’t have training or a fancy camera.
The lasts are hard for me to deal with because when they are happening we don’t know that they are the last. It’s in looking back the event has any importance.
Is talking about the Internet the new Sex Talk? I think about this a lot already, ESPECIALLY as a parent who blogs and uses an array of social networks and shares quite a bit about my life online.
I came home to find my baby in a dark room crying his eyes out…and my husband passed out drunk. What now? What’s next?
I’m a preschool teacher and an aunt to a child with a very bad stutter, but his mother is in denial. What do I do?
It’s no secret that my favorite baby gift is a bundle of my favorite children’s books. Here are some (or seventy) of my favorite books for babies and young children.
Design Mom’s new family video series Olive Us, featuring her six children, is an absolute delight. Not only is it instructional, but you see the kids being kind to each other. Our children need to see more of that in this world.
Make time to interview your child and record memories about the school year.
Here’s a quick and easy printable for you to customize as an end of the year Starbucks gift card thank you for all the top teachers out there.