Parenting

Many times, the task of homework falls squarely on a mother’s shoulders.  This is not always a good thing.  It is important that Dad be involved with homework, too.  There are many advantages when both parents help a child to complete the work they bring home.  Let’s talk about some of them. When Dad helps […] More

Surviving your daughter’s sleepover can be quite the feat, as any mother who has ever tried to do so would tell you.  It is especially difficult to survive a sleepover without losing your patience or your rest.  But I can help you out with this.  We have had our share of sleepovers over the last […] More

Lying, my friends, is not nice. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, let me break the ice by saying that I just thought of at least three ways in which I’ve lied to my kids in the past five minutes (the biggest one being that a certain 5-year-old will not be going to […] More

Being a stay-at-home mom is hard work. Being a work-from-home mom is even harder work. Don’t get me wrong; it’s beyond rewarding and it’s not something that I would ever change about – but it’s not a walk in the park (actually, don’t even get me started on our last walk in the park). There […] More

Babies and sleep; you want your baby to sleep through the night, but many moms go into parenting knowing it’s not likely to happen right away. However, other parents spend years waking up throughout the night with children thinking it’s completely normal and that everyone whose babies have slept through the night since they were […] More

Some of us were raised hearing – and eventually believing – that there are parenting rules we must always follow; no matter what. When we fail to follow those random parenting rules, we suddenly feel like mommy and daddy failures. Fortunately for those of us who are not quite perfect (um, guilty) most of these […] More

Teaching your kids is something you do from the moment they make their grand arrival into the world until they day you’re no longer with them. There is a teachable moment in just about every situation and missing out on those moments, especially when your children are still small and impressionable, can be pretty devastating. […] More

Being homesick is a terrible feeling. If you have ever been homesick, then you will have sympathy for anyone who ever feels this way.  It is not uncommon for college kids to become homesick at about this point in their first year away from home.  The newness of all of their classes has worn off […] More

The second you become pregnant you begin to hear the endless pieces of advice from others. Everyone has advice for a new or soon-to-be mom and it’s all different. Some of this advice might change your life. Others might make you raise and eyebrow and wonder how these people aren’t in prison (really, I promise […] More

Homework battles are a nightmare for both children and parents.  But they don’t have to take over every weeknight.  There are some strategies that you can use to end homework battles once and for all. Homework is a reality of life for children and their parents so it makes sense to have a plan in […] More

Most parents have found themselves in the situation when they dislike a friend of their child’s at one time or another.  It can be difficult to deal with that situation.  Most of us want to give in to the urge to forbid our child to spend time with that friend any more but that is […] More

Parenting makes even the best of us the worst hypocrites. Ask any parent around and they’ll tell you it’s hard not to be one from time to time. And just because you’re an otherwise amazing parent doesn’t change the fact that you might actually be a hypocrite. If you don’t want your kids to see […] More