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Prepare your kids for back to school by talking about bullying. Talk to your kids about bullying: how to prevent, how to react and what to do if you witness it. Teach your kids about bullying. #Bullying #StopBullying #SchoolBullying #ParentingTip #Parenting #MamaintheNow

Ten Things to Tell Your Kids About Bullying!

Talk to your kids about bullying:  School is back in session. Old friendships will be rekindled, new ones formed. Most kids return to school with a healthy mix of excitement and hesitation. Parents everywhere share those same emotions. What will the new year bring? What triumphs? What trials? View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Motherhood, Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: friends, Kids

Fun activities for money smart kids. Creative ways to teach financial literacy to kids, tweens and teens. Teach your kids about financial responsibility and the value of money with these fun money activities. Math activities. Money lessons. #TeachingKids #FinancialLiteracy #MoneySmartKids #TeachingKidsAboutMoney #MamaintheNow

10 Super Fun Activities For Money Smart Kids

Activities for Money Smart Kids Teaching kids about money and how to be money smart can be a really stress-inducing thought.  If you as an adult have any money stress at all, the thought of teaching your children about it may in fact cause you anxiety and it can be for many reasons.  View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Financial Life, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Parenting teens. Teaching teens how to manage strong emotions. Teen parenting tips. How to help teens manage emotions. Emotional teens. #Parenting #ParentingTeens #mamainthenow #ParentingTips #TeenParentingTips

Teaching Teens How to Manage Their Strong Emotions

Teaching Teens to Feel and Manage Their Roller Coaster of Emotions Parents often complain that their teens’ over-the-top reactions to the smallest issues are annoying and irritating. But let’s take a step back and try to understand teens a little. Chances are, if you are reading this, you have View Post

Filed Under: Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Best ways to teach kids internet safety. Keep kids safe online. Online safety tips for kids. Internet safety tips for kids. Teaching kids online safety. #MamaintheNow #SaferInternetDay #BeInternetAwesome #Sponsored

The Best Ways to Teach Kids Internet Safety

The Best Ways to Teach Kids Internet Safety Thank you, Google for allowing me to work you on this sponsored campaign to spread the word about Safer Internet Day on February 5, 2019. I am proud to be part of the Mom It Forward Influencer Network. He shut the front door, kicked off his winter boots View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Personal hygiene tips for active tween and teen boys - from a mother of four boys. Self care tips for tweens and teens. Parenting tweens and teens. Teaching hygiene to tween and teen boys. @PrepUProducts #naturalproduct #naturalskincare #smellyalater #activelifestyle #aluminumfree #boymom #teendeodorant #active #tween #teen #crueltyfree #mengrooming #coolkids #detox #healthylifestyle #charcoal #charcoaldeodorant #teenmom #boycare #ad

The Best Personal Hygiene Tips for Active Tweens

Thank you, Prep U for sponsoring this post. I received product and compensation in return for my honest opinion. Every opinion stated here is 100% mine. "Personal Hygiene" Shouldn't be Foreign Words to Your Tween! It had been a long day for all of us. The kids had soccer practice straight from View Post

Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Get rid of pinworms (almost) naturally. Cure pinworms, find best solutions to your child's itchy bottom. Natural pinworm or threadworm cure for kids and adults.

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally – FOR GOOD!

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally If you've found this post, first and foremost, please know that I am sorry. But also know that I am here to give you hope, tips and tricks of how to treat pinworms - all the information I am sharing here worked for our family. You have not been properly View Post

Filed Under: Health, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Popular, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: germs, health, Kids

Raising secure and confident boys to be mature grown men. Parenting tips from a mother of three. Parenting boys and raising little men. Parenting advice from a mom of three boys. Raise secure boys who may or may not play sports. #Parenting #ParentingBoys #RaisingBoys #BoyMom #parentingtips #MamaintheNow #ParentingAdvice #RaisingLittleMen

How to Raise Secure Boys: Let Them Be Themselves!

Please enjoy this guest post by Karen Lesh from M.O.B. Truths. She's a fellow boy-mom with great tips on how to raise secure boys. Her method may just surprise you, in a good, warm and fuzzy kind of way.  Raising secure boys, *even* without sports! "You must be sooo busy with all your boys’ View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

DIY Advent Countdown for Christmas Calendars. Christmas countdown for kids. Daily advent calendars for kids. These DIY Christmas advent calendars are Christmas fun for the whole family. #Advent #Adventcalendars #DIYChristmas #DIYAdventCalendar #DIYAdventCalendars #CountdowntoChristmas #mamainthenow #ChristmasCrafts

The Most Amazing DIY Advent Calendars for Christmas

Make Christmas More Fun With These DIY Advent Calendars: I think we can agree that the excitement for Christmas and the whole Christmas season easily starts to build somewhere between the day after Christmas and the first day of school.  We try to put off getting to consumed by it until we have had View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Life Style, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

10 Super fun Halloween ideas for kids. Not too spooky halloween crafts for kids. Halloween crafts for kids. Halloween decorations you can make with your kids. #halloweenideasforkids #HalloweenCraftsForKids #Halloween #HalloweenCrafts #CraftsForKids #ForKids #MamaintheNow #NotSpookyHalloween #FunWithKids #FallFun

10 Super Fun Halloween Ideas for Kids

Fun Halloween Ideas for Kids: Spooky and creepy or cute and adorable, either way you prefer your Halloween decorations and crafts, kids adore them all! We like simplicity of paper crafts and our kids enjoy making Halloween paper crafts too! From spiders to witches, from bats to monsters, there are View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

Awesome Autumn Leaf Crafts for Kids. Fall leaf crafts to make with kids. Fall crafts using leaves. Autumn crafts using leaves. Crafts for kids. Having fun with mother nature. #AutumnLeafCrafts #FallLeafCrafts #CraftsforKids #FallCraftsForKids #AutumnCraftsForKids #FallFun #AutumnFun #NaturePlay #NatureCrafts #forkids #MamaintheNow

Awesome Autumn Leaf Crafts For Kids

Autumn Leaf Crafts to Make With Kids: So, remember when we did that cute collection of pinecone crafts?  Well, we’re at it again, or we’re still at it I should say, because really, the adventures and the crafting never stop.  This time around our featured nature find is leaves.  Everybody loves View Post

Filed Under: Creative, Kid (6-9 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

The ultimate (expert) Disney Cruise packing list, from a veteran Disney-cruiser and mother of four boys. Don't leave home without these all too important items that you probably haven't thought to pack! #Disney #DisneyCruise #DisneyCruisePackingList #CruisePackingList #PackingList #DisneyCruiseTips #mamainthenow

The Ultimate (Expert) Disney Cruise Packing List

Disney Cruise Packing List, from an "Expert":  Four boys, two adults, five nights on a Disney cruise! Need I tell you that I was stressing out (in a big way) over the prospect of packing for our recent trip? I had never been on a cruise, so I had no idea of what to expect, which added another level View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Kid (6-9 years), Life Style, Motherhood, Popular, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: family, Kids, live in the now, Parenting Shortcut, Pin THIS!

Cell phone rules that will keep tweens safe in the real world. Cell phone contract for tweens. Tweens with cell phones. Cell phone safety rules for tweens and teens. Family tech rules. #CellPhoneRules #TechnologyRules #FamilyTechRules #ParentingTweens #ParentingTeens #CellPhoneRules #Tweens #Teens #Mamainthenow

Cell Phone Rules That Will Keep Your Tween Safe in The Real World

When should tweens/ teens get their first cell phone? Here I thought we had made a decision about when to give our kids cell phones. I thought it was a closed case, at least for the foreseeable future. But I thought wrong! This is what happened… Our very responsible and sensible soon-to-be View Post

Filed Under: Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years)

The internet safety tips your kid will understand and follow. A genius way to explain internet safety to your kids, without unnecessary drama. #InternetSafety #ComputerSafety #InternetRules #Parenting #ParentingTweens #ParentingTeens #Onlinesafety #SafetyTips #Family #MamaintheNow

The Internet Safety Tips Your Kids WILL Follow

The Internet Safety Conversation:  Our second grader came home the other day with a yellow flyer from his computer lab teacher. I almost threw it the trash without looking at it - just because, well you know how much paper the kids bring home. Apparently the kids learned about internet safety that View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Motherhood, Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: family, Kids, Parenting Shortcut, safety

How to have family fun thanks to chores. A chore system that increases family time. A mother's dream: get a clean house AND family time! Mom win! Chore Sticks from Creative QT for the win! #Choresticks #Chores #ChoreSystem #Parenting #FamilyFun #FamilyTime #MamaintheNow #ad

How to Have Family Fun Thanks to Chores

This post was created in collaboration with Creative QT. I was compensated for this review, in return for my honest opinion of the Chore Sticks from Creative QT. The opinions stated are 100% mine. Fun with chores is possible: I have written quite a bit about chores over the years. As with View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Printables, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years)

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