The Alpha Mom Parenting Book Club
Want to read some new books about parenting and then discuss them with other parents? We are going to do just that!
Want to read some new books about parenting and then discuss them with other parents? We are going to do just that!
I don’t want my kids to become desensitized. I don’t want them to think it is okay to make fun of other people or feel superior to other people.
Several of my young children are competitive athletes. These are the lessons my children have learned over the years from involvement in youth sports.
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.
Do you tell parents if you know their kid is involved in destructive behavior? I happen to think it takes a village, even if it makes me uncomfortable at times.
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.
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?
There are valuable lessons to be learned in all of our relationships, romantic and otherwise. And like so many other things that I was so sure about, I changed my mind. Here are the reasons I let my children “date.”
The reason some parents laughed about the dad who shot his daughter’s laptop is because we all know that parenting teens makes the most sane of us act nuts.
Kids like to feel involved and important. I love the conversations that we have in the kitchen while we cook. The kitchen really is the heart of the home.
Turns out parenting teens is a lot like parenting toddlers, and you’ve already done that. Let us show you the similarities.
We all struggle with different areas of motherhood. There is no such thing as a perfect mother. We all have different strengths. We all have our weaknesses.
Last year was a tough for me on many levels. I lost my joy. This upcoming year I am determined to get it back and make my family happier in the process.
I want a village. These are the people I want in my village. People who think it is a moral obligation to look out for each other’s kids.
We want our children to have a happy Christmas and to give them what they want, but how do we help our children appreciate how blessed they are?
I think television watching becomes a habit. I don’t want my children to develop that habit any more than I want them to start smoking or drinking.
I have high expectations of you. I have no doubt that you will live up to them all, but in the wake of recent news events I feel like I have to verbalize them.
I did a bad thing. Maybe not so much bad, as sneaky. When it came time to turn our clocks back an hour, I simply didn’t. So, how did it go? Read on to find out.
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.
There are things that were part of our collective culture growing up that our children will never understand, like phone books and pen pals. Read on for more.