Parenting With Heart And Humor
The Night I Saved The Girl With Steel Blue Eyes: I looked deeply into her vaguely familiar steel blue eyes. There was a warmth about them, but also something so broken, sad and lacking sparkle. We stood there and stared each other down for a long time. That’s when I heard it - his words. His View Post
I am excited to share this article with you about ADHD in girls. The ten questions featured in this series of "10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About..." are answered by a mother with ADHD about her young daughter, also with ADHD. This is incredibly insightful, empowering and educational. Please View Post
I am excited to have recruited help from a non-Floridian writer for this particular topic! Jennifer Taylor from MomTricks is guest writing. You will need her tips if you live anywhere but South Florida, so please read and share this with your other cold-weather friends. (This post contains affiliate View Post
It was a blistering cold winter’s eve in 1978. The littlest land of fairytales (Denmark) was full of happy people. Each and every person in the country was snuggled in their beds, ready for a nice long hibernating night’s sleep. Well, almost every person. There were four people awake - wide awake, View Post
Today I am sharing this heartfelt post from Alexandria about her almost 4 year old son Ian. I know her information will empower and educate someone else in the same situation! The rest of this is her writing! Since he was about 18 months old we have had him enrolled in early intervention classes View Post
I am SO honored to have my friend Megan share her experience with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. Her beautiful daughter, Maeve was diagnosed several years ago when she was just a toddler. Megan and Maeve have done an incredible job spreading awareness and educating others of the devastating disease. View Post
I met Caelen's mom several years ago before she moved to Florida. We connected in a Facebook group for heart moms, because that's what heart moms do - they connect, instantly. Caelen was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome ("HLHS"), which means that the left side of his heart is severely View Post
Hunting for a diagnosis is frustrating and all-consuming for parents who have children with medical conditions. Often parents "know" that there is something wrong with their child, but finding the right medical professional or specialist to listen can seem impossible. Thankfully this mom, a friend View Post
This week a good friend of mine is helping other parents with children diagnosed with FPIES. FPIES stands for Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome. I met this mom a few years ago when her son was newly diagnosed. I was blown away at the journey she had been on to finally get a diagnosis. Now View Post
I am kicking off this new series featuring a dear friend who answered my questions regarding her son’s epilepsy. Epilepsy is a catch-all term used for disorders and medical conditions causing recurrent seizures. This broad diagnosis is often frustrating to parents with a newly diagnosed child. View Post
I am thrilled to introduce a new blog series called “Ten Things Other Parents Need to Know About…” Each blog post will feature a complex medical condition and a parent with an affected child will answer ten questions. These posts will be an invaluable resource to other parents with newly diagnosed View Post
It's "back to school" season! Time to dust off the lunch boxes, pull out the backpacks and get your kids ready to learn. They will learn how to make friends, do math, read and share. I hope your kids share only toys, experiences and knock-knock jokes. May they not feel the need to share, exchange or View Post
If you are anything like me (meaning: “an average mom”) you have A LOT of important information and pictures stored in your phone. In order to safeguard our privacy, as well as protect our phones from grubby little toddler fingers, we take advantage of the latest iOS upgrades allowing us to lock the View Post
“Tove, this is Tina from your children’s soccer camp. Your boys were not picked up by Susan today. They are still here in the office with me. I have been trying to reach Susan for the past hour, but her cell phone goes to voice mail!” (Names and locations have been changed.) Imagine receiving View Post
