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    How to Adjust Your Kids After Coming Back From Family Vacation

    Just as your kids finally acclimate to the routine and schedule on vacation, it’s time to come home and reintroduce them to the real world of not being on vacation. Though there is no place like home, you quickly learn that there is no place like a resort in which someone else makes your bed, […] More

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    The Contents of a Diaper Bag Reveal A Lot About a Person

    You never truly know a person until you travel with them and until you see the contents of the bag they carry most – and for moms, that might be the diaper bag. It doesn’t matter what a mother looks like from the outside; you never judge a book by its cover. What matters is […] More

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    Translating the Awful Stuff Your Teen is Going to Say To You

    “You are the worst parents, EVER!” I remember screaming to my parents when I was 16. They would not let me get on a plane with my friends and spend a 3 nights in Cancun with my friends for Spring Break – rotten, evil people. Not letting their teenage daughter go to Mexico – a […] More

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    10 Necessary Lies You Have to Tell Kids in the Summer

    Summer vacation; teachers love it, parents don’t always think that it is the most amazing time of year. I love being with my kids, but this summer is a bit rough on me. There’s a lot of pressure to keep my two older kids entertained on a regular basis when they are so used to […] More

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    An Open Letter To My Child That Just Isn’t Good at Sports

    Out of four kids, two are still too young to show any athletic aptitude (unless you count the fact that they recently learned to walk) and one is a little too good at everything she attempts, but our oldest is not particularly athletic. She’s going to be 7 next month, but she’s not particularly athletic […] More

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    Proof That Believing in Your Child Leads to Better Grades

    You are what you believe. You attract what you believe. Change your thoughts to change your life. Look at us all Pinterest quote-worthy right now. Some people believe this to be true, and others believe it’s just a nice little thought designed on a pretty piece of background to make them feel better when they’re […] More

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    Why I’m Putting My Kid on a Leash, and Why You Should Too

    There comes a point when the stroller becomes something that makes your toddlers contort their little bodies into something to rival any Cirque du Soleil routine. Then come the screams and the tantrums. It takes everything you have to get them in the stroller, and before you know it you’re unbuckling them and letting them […] More

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