Making Family Dinner Work for Picky Eaters
Family dinner can be complicated if you have a picky eater, or if you’re a reluctant cook. Here’s how to make it work for your family.
Family dinner can be complicated if you have a picky eater, or if you’re a reluctant cook. Here’s how to make it work for your family.
Parents need advice and ideas on how to make their very young child feel more connected to one set of grandparents who live on the other side of the world. Weekly video conferences are just cutting it.
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.
I made a conscious effort to figure out what would make me the happiest. What things gave me the most bang for my buck, so to speak. And the rest I just let go. Is there a way to just be happier? Or is the real secret to stop making yourself crazy with the things that don’t matter?
When do super-involved and loving grandparents cross the line to monopolizing and need boundaries? Yes, that can happen.
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 never thought I’d grow to love camping, but with a few creature comforts we’ve discovered some of our best family time with the teens, out on the road.
From rafting down the Chattanooga to rock climbing in an air conditioned gym, six bloggers tell us all about their adventures on their summer vacation.
My family places importance on good mornings, but we are not good at mornings.
Sure, we have a color-coded family calendar hanging in our kitchen… but the events I most wish I could schedule remain maddeningly unpredictable.
What are the things that you want to do with your kids before they leave childhood behind? I feel like I can write this list with authority now that I have almost grown kids. Most of these things my children have done, except for my oldest who still has not mastered the cartwheel. It is something that makes me laugh every time he attempts it.
There’s nothing quite like a contentious election cycle to make you realize your kids are hearing and watching everything.
These pretty DIY Advent calendars will help your kids track the days until Santa arrives.
To me it isn’t even a question.We aren’t getting another dog. It is not going to happen. Nope. Never. Not getting a second dog. No thank you.
This summer, I dusted off my film degree and compiled a list of less obvious classic movies for us to watch as a family. These are all films that both kids and adults will enjoy, so we should have many, many hours of movie fun.
Family night should be easy, but trust me, what you think is fun and what your children think is fun are often worlds apart. So, we thought up some rules.
What if your scrapbook had no photos, but just drawings? Even if you only draw in stick figures, the results will be amazing.
Our parents love our daughter but they are resentful that we have set boundaries around our limited private family time together on weekends because they want to see their granddaughter more often. Help! We need advice.
Am I a terrible person for wanting to take my toddler to see family on Thanksgiving while he’s stuck at work?
The songs we play over and over again make family life better and create our own soundtrack for our memories later.