Toddler
How To Stop the Picky Eating Monster
How to help the parent of a toddler who once enjoyed eating her foods at her highchair who now refuses food after food and runs from the dinner table.
Money & Work
Use Back-to-School Budgets to Teach Kids Money Management
We list some ways that parents can use back-to-school shopping as a lesson in money management by putting the kids in charge of their own budgets!
Food & Home
How to Make Tuna Salad Sandwich (Recipes Kids Should Know to Make Before Leaving Home)
Since tuna sandwiches are one of the first things I learned how to make, I think it’s a meal that kids should know how to make before leaving home.
Food & Home
How to Make Macaroni Salad (Recipes Kids Should Know How to Make Before Leaving Home)
A macaroni salad will come in super handy, for home and for sharing at potluck parties. Kids should know how to make this dish before leaving home.
Big Kid
Senioritis? Keep Your Eyes on the Prize!
Has a case of senioritis arrived at your house? Don’t wave it off; talk early and often about these last few months before graduation.
Big Kid
This is the Way the Break Ends: Both Bangs and Whimpers
I thought I was ready for my college freshman to spend Winter Break with us, but I really had no idea what we were both in for, I guess.
Big Kid
Failure to Launch: Removing the Parental Safety Net
What can be done when a young adult has been enabled by her parents and is now completely immune to failure or consequences?
Toddler
Playing the Bedtime Stalling-Tactic Game
A parent turns to Amalah for help with probably one of the oldest toddler tricks in the book… using the potty as a bedtime stalling tactic.
Young Child
The Shoe Tying Battle, Revisited
What to do when your kid knows how to tie his/her shoes but chooses to not retie them. Is it a battle worth fighting or do you let it go?
Food & Home
Cooking Essentials for Your Little Chef
Amalah’s recommendations for everything you need to get your preschooler learning to cook.
Food & Home
Sautéed Chicken Breasts (Recipes Kids Should Know How to Cook Before Leaving Home)
Knowing how to sauté chicken breasts is one of the most helpful kitchen skills you can have. If you know how to cook a chicken breast, there are all kinds of meals you can make. It’s definitely a meal kids should know how to cook before leaving home.
Big Kid
D-Day: College Dorm Drop-Off and Beyond
Was the first college dorm drop-off the stuff of legends? Actually, it felt remarkably normal, even as everything is changing, now.
Big Kid
When “I’m an Adult!” is Still a Kid in Your House
How do we switch gears from “child we provide for” to “young adult who must provide for herself” in a way that makes sense? In our case, slowly.
Big Kid
Post-Graduation and not Looking for The Moment
It seems like there was supposed to be an immediate shift, somewhere in the whole turning-18-and-graduating-high-school thing. But life is full of moments.
Big Kid
Drive, Baby, Drive: Time for my Youngest to Step on the Gas
As we ever-so-gently force my youngest to get behind the wheel, he’s learning he’s more capable than he thought, and I’m delighting in watching him do so.
Big Kid
College is Looming, But Will We Kill Each Other First?
Oh, those halcyon final days of high school when… your college-bound teen knows everything and you’re just stupid. Yeah. Um. Take a deep breath.
Big Kid
My Kid Turned 18 And All I Got Was Grateful (and Some Ink)
While a child’s 18th birthday is a big deal no matter what, it’s especially meaningful to our family that our once-struggling kid is now, finally, thriving.
Big Kid
Spaghetti and Meatballs (Meals Kids Should Know How to Cook Before Leaving Home)
Recipe for how to make spaghetti and meatballs, a great meal all kids should know how to make before leaving home!
Big Kid
Confessions of a Recovering Naggy McNaggerson
A lifetime of nagging my children in the name of “helping” is coming to a close, because we all need me to back off. It’s hard, but I’m working on it.
Big Kid
“Thank you” is Not Enough: When a Teacher is So Much More
Even though we’ve been incredibly lucky to have a great teacher in our lives as long as we have, saying goodbye is never easy.