Parenting With Heart And Humor
How to prepare your kid for their first summer camp I won’t ever forget the first time I dropped my kids off at summer camp. Jordan and Jacob walked excitedly down the road, dragging their packed lunch boxes like they were brief cases filled with important documents. Jordan was so small, especially View Post
What IS the Danish Way? “I just want him to be happy!”, how many times have you as a parent thought that about your child? From a parenting perspective, “happiness” is the greatest measure of success.Every single day we are a faced with opportunities to thoroughly screw up our kids, but at the View Post
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
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
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
You have not been properly initiated into motherhood until you have worn a LEGO headlamp, armed yourself with strip of tape and gone on a pinworm safari in your sleeping child’s pants!On my first such hunt, I was greeted by three pinworms that mockingly waved at me from the crack of my son’s View Post
It is the season of the Elf, the Elf on the Shelf that is! And while you are probably filled with excitement and ideas at all of the wonderful adventures your little Elf is going to go on, you may also be feeling a bit anxious that you will run out of ideas, or that your Elf may not appear to have View Post
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
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
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
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
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
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
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