Parenting With Heart And Humor
I received promotional items from LEGO® DUPLO® in return for my honest review. The opinions stated in this post are 100% mine - and the kids'. The house is quiet, for once. The big kids are in school. It’s just Jonah and I on the living room floor. There is a wall of laundry to the left of us, View Post
Did you know that paper can be so much fun? Some people spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on toys to entertain their children. To each their own, but we have so much fun creating our own out of paper! Don’t get me wrong, I still buy my kids toys, but the times we have spent making our own, like View Post
The change was drastic, from one day to the next he went from happy to silent. Our child was bullied, but thankfully an expert gave me advice days prior. Our child was bullied The change was drastic, from one day to the next. He had been an open book all year. Cheerful, happy and full of funny View Post
How to Tell If Your Toddler Is Eating Enough If you have a toddler, you’ve probably discovered that feeding a toddler isn’t the easiest of tasks. Chances are you offer them some food (preferably tasty and healthy food), watch them pick a few mouthful and the proceed to fling the rest across the View Post
Play dates! Love them or hate them, they are a great way to get your child to socialize with their friends. Now that our two oldest are in elementary school they are starting to invite friends over to the house.Sometimes we know the parents, but there have been times where we have set up “blind View Post
Do you have an introverted child? Is it hard to watch him navigate an extroverted world? There are several things you can do to help. Try these tricks. A Shy Little Girl “Hi, little girl. I am your grandfather’s neighbor. What’s your name? You know it’s not polite to ignore adults, View Post
I smile. Smiling is what I do when I am at a loss for words. I turn my eyes towards the ground, as if I have just been scolded. There I am, looking at my feet, still smiling.What is wrong with me? I have done nothing wrong. “Lift your head up, hold it high and own this” I tell myself. I don’t View Post
I will never know how many miles we walked. The hours spent on our “project” added up as the days and weeks passed.I wonder if he knew how much he helped me through the teenage years. Our walks became an outlet for me: a safe place to vent my thoughts, feelings and turmoil, and there is a lot of View Post
Jonah and I were running errands on one of our “quality time mornings.” His three brothers were in school, so it was just me and my little side-kick. Every ounce of my attention went to the little boy with the big brown eyes and the sweetest bowl hair cut. He wore his favorite outfit, the blue R2D2 View Post
“Hey Jansen, do you want to play Star Wars with me?” Jordan (7) is peeking his head around the corner to the living room, looking for his younger brother Jansen (4). Their eyes meet and Jansen jumps up, excited for the opportunity and honor of playing with his older brother.Jansen knows from View Post
My head hit the pillow with a resounding “thud” after a long day of parenting and mothering four little beings. The house had been quiet for some time. You know, the kind of eerie silence that makes you miss the kids’ daytime noisiness. I was drifting off into a sweet dream when an all too familiar View Post
I was just jolted out of my sleep from a roundhouse kick to the stomach, a soaked diaper inched up under my nose and little hands with razor-sharp nails clawing longingly at my chest. For the past nine years our bed has resembled a clown car more than a king size sleigh bed. It has been a revolving View Post
Motherhood is part creating attachment and equal parts detaching, ever so lovingly - at JUST the right time. Today I witnessed a beautifully executed loving detachment, made possible by a mutually strong attachment. This miracle happened because I used a incredibly simple (and effective) solution to View Post
As the mother of four, there are a few things I have learned and am reminded of on a daily basis. First and foremost, little boys have poor aim, they just do. The things that are favorites today are considered poisonous tomorrow. Last but not least, you are not “better at” parenting just because you View Post