Dinner can sometimes be the only part of the day when a family can sit down and have quality time together. Everyone is busy – you are running errands all day and working, dad is constantly answering emails and the kids are catching up on homework and sports after school. Finding time each day to […]
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Parenting gets really hard when your kids can start deciding not to listen to you. The routine of eating, sleeping and pooping are a lot more complicated now, and boy do kids love practicing free will. While we want to raise strong, independent children, we still need to hold the authority in the house. Nothing […]
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Children, particularly small children, have an innocent talent for saying or doing exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time—just to embarrass their parents. Here is a collection of 15 stories where exactly that has happened: Shopping 1. A small boy took the customer service ticket from his mother in the deli counter line […]
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Whether you’re young or old, people of all ages are constantly being bombarded with images daily. Not all of these images are negative, obviously, but many of them are. First of all, the media plays a major role in what we see. When you’re watching the latest celebrity show, for example, you may see a […]
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I am a work-from-home parent and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. However, there is one time of the year that every work-at-home parent is concerned with: summer. We both want to be the awesome parent spending tons of time with out kids out in the sun, going on many family vacations and adventures, […]
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When your kids get to that delightful age where their teeth start falling out and you’re blessed with their gap-toothed grins, you suddenly realize that you have no idea what the Tooth Fairy has been up to since you lost your own teeth years and years ago. As a kid, it seemed like a quarter […]
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Make good choices yourself and kids will copy them Children don’t do what you tell them to do. They do what they see you do. This applies to virtually all areas of life, including food. If your child sees you eating natural foods and lots of fruits and vegetables, chances are that he or she […]
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The struggle to provide kids with healthy and nutritious lunchbox snacks is a struggle all parents and guardians know. With the ever-increasing amount of junk food available in stores, it’s hard to get kids excited about the alternatives which are usually healthy and yummy at the same time. So, let’s try and find some! 1. […]
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If you’re currently raising toddlers, you probably know what a challenge it can be to find toys that will keep them occupied for more than a couple of minutes. I know I do. Since I work from home, I’m always on the lookout for toys and activities that will help keep my toddlers occupied for […]
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Having more than one kid is never easy. You will inevitably be dealing with different age groups until they even out later on in life. Even if you had children close to the same age group, every child is different and every age group has different needs, interests, and requirements. It can be so tricky […]
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If your children are still young, you may not have had the terrifying moment yet when you have to talk to your innocent, sweet child about a difficult topic, be it about sex ed, death, divorce, or other hard topics. It seems so silly. We are the adults; we should not be scared to have […]
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Create management goals together with your child Your child may not know how to handle diabetes just yet, but that’s a great opportunity to help him or her out. By talking about the subject, you can both get a better understanding of how to manage various aspects of the condition. As you consult with your […]
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Toddlers can be tricky to take to the store. Especially when you have three under four. So a helpful friend told me that I should try giving them suckers to when we’re out. She’d been giving her toddler the big 50 cent ones you can get at several stores and swore that it kept him […]
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Family planning is probably the biggest misnomer I’ve ever heard. You can’t plan anything. Maybe you’re lucky, and maybe your plans do end up working out, but, for the vast majority of us, the families we end up with usually end up looking different than the ones we thought we’d get. Sometimes in small ways, […]
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Now that school is out, are you wondering how you can get your kids to read during the summer so that they can continue to enjoy all the benefits that reading offers? More importantly, are you wondering how you can get your child to actually enjoy reading so that they develop a love of reading […]
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