Playing with your children, and even wrestling with them is one of the best ways to raise a great kid. Read More
One Easy Way to Improve Your Relationship with Your Kid
If you own a smartphone, chances are, you love it. You take pictures of your kids, stay in touch with friends and family, keep up with the news, and text your spouse reminders to pick up milk. It’s likely never more than an arm’s reach away, and it probably even journeys into the bathroom with you. It’s 2016, and that’s totally normal. Read More
Letting My Daughter React to Stares and Questions
I wanted to insert myself into the conversation happening a few feet away from me, to explain and to defend, but I held back. Read More
5 Ways Social Media Owns Our Kids
I can still hear my mom’s voice from the other room, yelling that I only had five more minutes to be online… Read More
Just Walk Out The Door: The Importance of Mom Friends
If there is one survival tip I can relay to new mothers who are struggling, it’s this: find your people. Having mom friends has made me a different mom. I have often called them my lifelines, because I truly don’t know what raising my children up until this point would have looked like without them. Read More
Light in the Window – My Grandmother’s Last Visit
My paternal Grandmother and I weren’t particularly close. Situation and proximity saw to that; she enjoyed a much more fulfilling relationship with my cousins… Read More
Why I Cut Out Social Media for a Month
During the most recent holiday season, I personally decided to go on a different sort of diet… Read More
Weekly Roundup: Best Family-Oriented Products of January 10-16, 2016
First aid kits, sunscreen, toys, children’s books and much more! It’s Tuesday and that means it’s time for our Weekly Roundup Post. We are pleased to share some of the very best products on the market with you. Read More
Giveaway! The Reading Promise, An Award-Winning Children’s Picture Book
Enter to win your copy of The Reading Promise, the award-winning children’s picture book. Read More
In Defense of Public Flailing and Tantruming
Somewhere along the line it became taboo to take your children out with you in public. As if it were expected that, once a couple has children, they stop wanting and needing to go out together. Moms like staying in their homes all day with their kids….right? Where did the prevailing mindset that public places are only for adults come from? Read More