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Happy Halloween! We’ve talked before about important safety tips for this Halloween day. However, what we haven’t talked about in terms of Halloween safety is what to do at someone’s door. There are a few rules for kids and adults that should be adhered to on this great and fun holiday. This is especially true […] More
Happy Halloween! Today is the big day in which the kids are celebrating by dressing up and coming home from school with a sugar high, you’re picking through their Halloween buckets for “Safety Reasons” (ie – to remove all bite sized snickers and reeses cups for yourself) and the doorbell won’t stop ringing. It’s a […] More
Being a single mom is hard, under the best of circumstances but when you have boys, you have a completely new worry on your hands. While both boys and girls need positive male role models in their lives, this seems to be doubly true for a boy. How can they learn all of the skills […] More
Ah, the terrible twos. In our house, we simply refer to this age as the year in which we are really going to spend more time traveling – without the kids (like we can leave them for long periods of time without missing their behavior like crazy). The terrible twos are a stage in which […] More
Being a helicopter parent is something that most of us don’t want to think we are. A helicopter parent is exactly what it sounds like; it is a parent that hovers too closely for comfort. A helicopter parent is a parent that refuses to give their child the space they need to experience a normal […] More
Dads are a really special part of a child’s life. Dads have a special way of parenting that moms – try as they might – just can’t replicate (and moms, before you become offended let me clarify that there are certain things dads just can’t do that moms do, so no hard feelings, okay?). Dads […] More
School is a great place in which children are educated, they learn life lessons and they make new friends. They learn to work as a team, how to interact with others and how to foster friendships. However, school can also be a place in which you cannot keep an eye on your child at all […] More
Naptime battles are something that most parents deal with from time to time with their toddler. The issue is really very simple. Your toddler has this big, wide, fascinating world that they want to explore and taking a nap simply ruins their fun. One way to avoid naptime battles is to set a consistent routine […] More
As a parent, you might occasionally use a babysitter (I say might because you might be like us and only ask your own parents to keep your children for you – because if we ever asked a sitter over Grandma we’d never hear the end of it!). If you’ve hired a sitter in the past, […] More
A parent teacher conference can be a bit unnerving for most of us. We wonder what the teacher has to say about our child. Are they progressing as they should be? Are they keeping up with their school assignments? In a way, it can seem as if the teacher has the upper hand on us. […] More
Enrolling a toddler in an educational program is a big decision, and it’s one that I used to feel very differently about. When my 5-year-old was born, I’d already been practicing the stay-at-home mom gig for 10 weeks after leaving my job. Several of my loved ones recommended that I enroll her in an educational-based […] More
In a recent conversation, it occurred to me that moms spend entirely too must time trying to justify their parenting decisions. It’s not because they don’t feel their decisions are right; it’s because they’re worried that the rest of us moms are going to judge them, deem them bad moms, turn our noses up. What […] More