Dear Cal: Advice To My Teenage Daughter (Part 1)
A couple of life lessons I have learned and want to pass on to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, before she enters high school about age and frenemies.
A couple of life lessons I have learned and want to pass on to my 13-year-old daughter, Cal, before she enters high school about age and frenemies.
Can a “cooperative kid” be made of a troubled teen? With a lot of parental changes (and tongue-biting), signs point to yes.
As Teacher Appreciation Week and the school year-end approaches, here is a fun and free printable card to present an iTunes gift card as a thank you.
May 4th is the official Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be With You!). Here’s a fun printable with cut-outs to decorate your desserts for the day. Perfect for a Star Wars celebration or even a party.
Should I get a tubal ligation done during my C-section? Or is that too much, all at once?
The secret to successfully blending a family is making peace with it being messy and ongoing and scary and wonderful.
Need something you can whip up quickly that is sure to put a smile on your mother’s or grandmother’s face on Mother’s Day? How about a framed bouquet!?
Craft up a useful gift for Mother’s Day. Bottle Cap Bookmarks are the perfect handmade gift for kids to easily make for mom, grandma or other loved ones!
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
Teenagers today are dealing with incredible pressures but in some ways they are still very much the same.
I never thought I’d homeschool my kid, but somehow this is where we ended up. Spoiler: We both kind of love it.
I’m 17 and pregnant. My family is wonderfully helpful…to the point that I’m afraid I won’t be allowed to raise my own baby! How can I ask them to back off without alienating my support system?
Vote between “Daring Greatly,” “The Whole-Brain Child” and “Sticks and Stones” for our next Alpha Mom parenting book selection.
We finally had The Sex Talk with our firth grade son. A long talk. A couple of talks, in fact. And throughout the process, we all learned a few things about the best way to handle discussing sex at this age and stage.
Things to avoid when visiting or staying with brand-new parents.
There’s a no-man’s land, I think, in those big-tween/young-teen years, when it comes to summer break. Here’s my current Summer Manifesto for this summer. What’s yours?
I have begun shopping for teachers’ gifts. What sort of gifts do you give the people to whom you entrusted your children for the entire year? I find it difficult to find gifts that truly show how much I really appreciate all that they have done for my child.
Make dad a whole traffic jam of photo cubes to remind him who’s number one on Father’s Day! Here’s how you can make a car photo cube for the dad in your life.
A mom needs a realistic tactical plan for implementing Ellyn Satter’s feeding philosophy to family dinners.
My neurotypical teenager has had a cellphone for years; deciding to get a cellphone for my autistic teenager was a very different proposition.