Lessons You Learn From Motherhood
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
Motherhood is full of opportunities to learn important, and not so important, lessons. You might as well laugh through them all.
In the past week I have had conversations with several people about what age is okay to leave your child home alone. What do you think?
It is the time of year when you begin to hear complaints from the kids about their teachers. “My teacher hates me!” Do you step in or let them work it out?
Let’s make a pact to remove this word from our vocabularies. Shoulds make you feel like a failure and get in the way of you appreciating what you actually do.
You’re nothing like me, in all the best ways possible. Where I am shy, you are confident. Where I am weak, you are strong. Where I am laid back, you are fierce.
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.
Have you ever been curious how to celebrate a Non-Leap Year Birthday? We’ll show you how it’s done with a lot less waste, too.
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.
I’ve been thinking about the qualities that people most often comment about in my children and how they learned those things.
An important topic for our teenagers, who may not grasp the concept of the long term consequences of what they are posting on social media.
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.
Anyone who has tweenage children is not surprised by the mention of Spaghetti Tacos. Read on for the recipe.
A mother’s hilarious portrayal of various stages of emotions involved for both the parent and teen when the teen is grounded.
Tomorrow afternoon you are to going stand in an auditorium with a thousand other kids your age. People will speak. Some parents will dab tears. Others will be elbowing their way to a prime position in order to take a photo with their zoom lens. I don’t need to tell you which group I will be in.
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.
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.
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.
We have one rule in our house. But it is more than just a rule it is a way of living. It is two simple words. Be Kind.
So, I read all your helpful suggestions from last week about my dilemma with toilet paper tubes on the floor and this is what happened….
The way to get your kids to behave is to give them the gift of self discipline. But exactly how do you do that? That is what author Barbara Coloroso outlines in her book, Kids Are Worth It!