Have you ever been frustrated by your kids’ tendency to gravitate toward junk food? I know I have! Given the choice between a Cheeto and a carrot stick, my son will take the Cheeto every time. Highly palatable food is prevalent in our culture, there’s no getting around it. But there’s Keep Reading
Spring Break Screen Time Rules {Free Printable}
Depending on your school district, Spring break is either here, or right around the corner. Or if you’re a homeschooling family like us, spring break is whenever you say it is. ;) But regardless of when it happens, it seems like spring break for the most part means having bored kids all week long, Keep Reading
5 Quick Tips To Keep Your Kids Healthy Through The School Year
Thank You Smarty Pants Vitamins for sponsoring this post. We love and use Smarty Pants every day! That said, all opinions are 100% own. One of the terrors of motherhood is sick kids. There’s nothing worse than the helplessness of watching them throw up, or not being able to sleep thanks to Keep Reading
How To Help Your First Grader Sit Still For School
Being six is tough. Or at least, that’s how it looks when I ask my six-year-old son to sit still for five minutes. Unfortunately for both of us, school works takes a lot more than five minutes a day. I know that my son isn’t a bad kid - he’s actually a very good kids except for when he’s Keep Reading
How to Photograph Your Kids
When I was little, my mom used to take us to a studio in the mall to get our pictures taken. Monthly baby pictures, school pictures, family pictures, Christmas pictures. You name it, we were there. However, when I had my own kids, I knew that wasn’t going to be possible for us. Not only did we Keep Reading
25 Ways To Enjoy Your kids (And Stop Being Stressed Out)
I’ve gone through cycles in my parenting - sometimes multiple times per day - where at the top, I loved and enjoyed my kids so much I thought my heart might burst, then on the bottom, finding them incredibly annoying and wishing they would just be quiet for a minute so I could get something Keep Reading
How We Painlessly Switched To Healthy Snacks
Healthy snacking is hard, and I don’t just mean for kids. It’s hard for adults too. I mean, first, you have to make something, or at the very least, wash and cut something, which takes time. To be honest, I stopped keeping a stash of homemade goodies on hand, when I realized how nutritionally Keep Reading
10 Things I Never Thought I’d Say Before I Had Kids (Weekend Wrap-up)
I know articles like this have been done over and over in internet land, but almost every day I am just astounded by some of the things I really never thought I’d say - ever - before I had kids. It can be both the most amusing, and the most frustrating thing in the world, and sometimes it’s hard Keep Reading
6 Tried and True Tips for flying with kids
A lot of parents are a bit afraid to fly with their kids. I’m sure we’ve all read a scathing article or two on some equally scathing blog about how annoying it is to fly near children. They cry, they kick the seat in front of them, they don’t respect personal space boundaries. But I’m here to Keep Reading
6 things To Take To SeaWorld (And 2 To Leave Behind)
Our kids have finally gotten old enough to go places and do fun things. A couple years ago, I honestly wasn’t sure we’d ever reach that point - so YAY! One of the first things we did this spring was purchase season passes to SeaWorld. Since it’s only a three-and-a-half hour drive from us, we Keep Reading
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