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Teens And Their Obsession With All Apps
My daughter attends the same high school I graduated from, (I won’t tell you how many) years ago. As I was walking through the halls the other day I realized how much the times have changed. When I...
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What Your Non-Parent Friends Don’t Want to Know About Your Kid
As a non-parent, I’d like to instill a few tips to all you proud mommies and daddies out there regarding what those of us without kids care to know about your precious offspring. Let me preface this...
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Make The Most Out Of A Beautiful Fall
Fall is such a pretty time of year with the leaves changing, and depending on where you live and there’s so much fun stuff to do. For instance, carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, making hot apple...
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Stay Active With Your Kids
Being a parent can be nothing short of exhausting. Between kids, house, work, school, cooking, cleaning and also playing the part of a taxi driver for your kids and their friends there’s hardly enough...
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Secret Mini Re-decorators
Learning how to spell new words and write out sentences come with the territory when you have first graders. They are always excited and so proud of themselves when learning new, big words and when...
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To Minivan Or Not To Minivan?
With the impending arrival of Baby #2, and the increasingly squashed space in our Prius, we’ve started thinking about the move to a bigger car. But that always brings up the question (at least when...
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When All Else Fails, Ask Grandma
My mother is the sweetest mother I could ask for. She is very kind, caring and generous. She would do anything for anyone if she could. Lately my teenage daughter has picked up on this and is taking it...
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Rewarding Good Behavior
Rewarding good behavior is a great way to encourage children to be the best they can be. There are so many different ways to reward them. I have tried a variety of ways with my kids. We have done...
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Honesty Is The Best Policy
Everyone always says this but sometimes we don’t practice what we preach. It is especially difficult when you have to tell your children things that aren’t easy for them to understand. This week I had...
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Teaching Our Kids To Be Thankful Year Round
It seems as though all I hear during the month of November is everyone talking about their “days of thankfulness.” Whether in passing conversation or on social networking sites. Every day people name...
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Stubborn At Any Age
Lately I have realized that it doesn’t matter how old your child is that they can still stand their stubborn ground. It can be exhausting and time consuming depending on the situation but as long as...
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Moms Know: Always Check Pockets
My kids are always cramming anything they can in their pockets. On any random laundry day when I search them I have found everything from pine cones to rocks, sea shells to candy. (Although I don’t...
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Stay At Home Moms Have It Best
I haven’t worked an 8am to 5pm job in many years because I have been fortunate enough not to have to, but recently I was offered a position in a field in which I am licensed to work, so I decided to...
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What To Do When Mom Is Sick!
It’s not fun for kids when mom is sick. This past week I was stopped in my tracks by a stomach illness and then right after that I caught a nasty cold. My kids and I had planned to bake cookies, put up...
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A Puppy From Santa
About 7 years ago we had a puppy, a little Yorkie. At the time the twins were only 16 months old and my other two children were 6 and 9. She was a sweet little dog and the kids absolutely adored her....
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Let Kids Be Kids: Freedom Of Expression
It doesn’t matter what the weather is, what month or holiday it is, my kids love to wear costumes or just dress up in mismatched clothes all of the time. I have taken trips to the grocery store with a...
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Men Can Play Too: Co-ed Baby Shower Games
There are quite a number of “interesting” baby shower games. Case in point: the dirty diaper game, where guests are asked to smell candy smashed in diapers. Sounds like a waste of perfectly good...
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Why I Limit My Children’s Screen Time (Sort Of)
An opinion on a particular parenting style is like a diapering horror story — everybody’s got one. And, if your opinion or technique is different from the parent next to you, things can get feisty...
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