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End of Summer Family Bucket List the Whole Family Will Love

The summer is drawing to an end. Get the most out of the last few days with these fun end of summer family bucket list ideas. Summer Family Bucket List Summer is coming to an end. There are only so many days left of clear skies, warm sunshine, and high temperatures before school takes over again View Post

Filed Under: Life Style, Parenting, Summer

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20 Potty Training Reminders for Desperate Parents

If you find yourself knee-deep in potty training, chances are you will LOVE these potty training reminders. You will feel validated, I promise! I have never been an overly ambitious mother, especially not when it comes to potty training. I always figured that the boys would catch on - eventually. View Post

Filed Under: Parenting, Potty Training, Toddler (2-5 years) Tagged With: Baby, Cloth Diapering, Kids, Parenting Shortcut, Potty Training, Toddlerhood

Everything you need to know to move your child to a booster seat. Booster seat review by mother of four. Transition your child safely into a booster seat. Booster seat tips and tricks. Current car seat laws and the latest booster seat safety information. Click here to learn how to know when your child is ready for a booster seat. #Diono #BoosterSeat #CarSeat #CarSeatSafety #BoosterSeatSafety #Parenting #MamaintheNow #ad

Everything You Need to Know to Move Your Child to a Booster Seat

Car seat safety is one of the most important things parents must consider. This guide will show you when it's the right time to move to a booster seat. Thank you Diono for providing our family with booster seats to review in return for our honest opinion. Every opinion stated here is 100% View Post

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Reviews, Toddler (2-5 years)

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Super Smart Ways to Prepare Your Child For a New Sibling

Congratulations, you are pregnant! You have been down this path once, twice (maybe even more times). You know what to expect from your body, your spouse, and friends. But there is one unknown factor this time - your toddler! The little being who up until now has been your baby. The cherub who View Post

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Motherhood, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler (2-5 years) Tagged With: Baby, brothers, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, Pregnancy, Toddlerhood

How to get rid of lice, without losing your mind. Safe lice treatments for the whole family. Easy and effective lice treatment. Treat even super lice with this treatment. Non-toxic lice treatment. #VamousseLice #Ad #LiceTreatment #LicePrevention #GetRidofLice #TreatingLice #LiceFreakOut #MamaintheNow

How to Get Rid of Lice Without Losing Your Mind

When you hear "Mom! My head is itchy" don't burn down the house, yet. Breathe and turn here for tips on how to get rid of lice without losing your mind! How to get rid of lice without losing your mind I am proud to work with Vamousse on this post. They provided samples of Vamousse lice treatments View Post

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

How to handle your children's video games positively. Put a positive spin on screen time. Turn video games and screen time into family time. Tips for how to parent tweens and teens. Teen parenting tips. Screen time tips for families. #VideogamesforKids #ChildrensVideoGames #ScreenTime #Parentingtweens #ParentingTeens #MamaintheNow

How to Handle Your Children’s Video Games Positively

How to Handle Your Children's Video Games Positively It can feel like you are constantly trying to snag your children’s attention, whether they are staring at their phones or simply not paying attention. But one thing that tends to frustrate a lot of parents is when they have to deal with their View Post

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

Learn how to prevent pinworm infestations with these 10 tips from a mother of four. Prevent pinworms in kids and adults by sticking to these 10 easy to follow tips. Stop pinworms from spreading with these pinworm prevention tips. #Ad #Pinworms #Pinworm #Childhood #Motherhood #childrenshealth #kidshealth #healthykids #familyhealth #pinwormtreatment #pinwormprevention #pinwormmedicine #motherhoodtip #motherhoodhack #mamainthenow

How to Prevent Pinworms in Kids and Adults

I am excited to work with Reese’s Pinworm Medicine again to bring you current and effective tips to prevent and combat pinworm infestations. The opinions stated in this post are 100% mine. Prevent pinworms in kids and adults There are numerous things in life no one wants to experience, not even View Post

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

How to prepare your kids for their first summer camp. Summer camp for kids. Prepare your kids for summer camp. Summer camps for kids. How to get the most out of summer camp for kids. #Summercamp #SummercampsforKids #PrepareYourKidsForSummerCamp #MamaintheNow #FunSummer #SummerBucketList #SummerCamps

How to Prepare Your Kids for Their First Summer Camp

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

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

How do you comfort a grieving moms. Learn the words to say to comfort a grieving parent. Words to comfort special needs parents. Words to comfort a special needs mom. #RightWords #WordstoSay #ComfortingaGrievingMom #SpecialNeedsMom #ComfortingWords #mamainthenow

How to Comfort a Grieving Mother

What do you say when your best friend's child has been diagnosed with cancer? I didn't know how to comfort a grieving mother. But these tips helped... What do you say to a mother, your best friend, who’s 4 year old was just diagnosed with Leukemia? What do you do when you live several states away View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: friends, health, live in the now, special needs

Ensure your family’s summer vacation by never leaving home without these 13 FSA-eligible items. A mother of four shares her best advice for traveling with kids. Summer vacation plans with kids? Don’t leave home without these 13 health care items. #FamilyTravel #FamilyTrip #TravelingWithKids #FSAEligible #FSA #Partner #GetFlexSmart

13 FSA Eligible Items You MUST Bring When Traveling With Kids

Traveling with kids this summer? Don’t do another thing until you’ve read my list of 13 items to bring with you. This list of FSA-eligible items saved us a trip to the ER!   It was a pleasure working with FSAstore.com on this campaign. I received compensation for my honest review of their View Post

Filed Under: Health, Life Style, Motherhood, Parenting, Reviews

The struggle with teen phone addiction is real. Get tips to help your teen overcome their internet addiction. Teen parenting tips for balanced technology use. Tips for how to help your teen not to become addicted to the internet. Parenting teenagers tips. #ParentingTeens #ParentingTips #PhoneAddiction #InternetAddiction #ParentingAdvice #ParentingTeenswithTechnology #teensandtechnology #MamaintheNow

Fighting for Eye Contact: How to Stop Your Teen’s Phone Addiction

Fighting for eye contact: how to stop your teen's phone addiction. The struggle IS real, but there IS hope. You will see your teen's eyes again - read on. How To Stop Your Teen’s Phone Addiction Teens nowadays are attached to their phones. Well, not only teens, adults are just as bad too. However, View Post

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

How to control your parental anxiety. Teen anxiety is on the rise. Raise kids without anxiety. Parenting without anxiety. Anxiety in kids and parents. #Anxiety #AnxietyinKids #ParentalAnxiety #AnxietyinMoms #MamaintheNow

How to NOT Pass on Your Anxieties to Your Kids

What is parental anxiety? Anxiety is a normal part of life, especially for parents. We get anxious about our finances, work, our kids, their health and a hundred other large and small things. However, sometimes we get so busy being anxious and worrying about the minutiae of life that we forget View Post

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

How to talk to your kids about losing a loved one. How to talk to your kids about death. Explaining death to kids. How to let kids grieve. Kids and grief. #KidsandDeath #LosingaLovedOne #TalkingtoKids #ParentingAfterLoss #ParentingTips #MamaintheNow #parentingTweens #ParentingTeens

How to Talk to Your Kids About Losing a Loved One

Losing a loved one is never easy, helping your kids process the loss can be even harder. Learn how to talk to kids about death and losing a loved one. How To Talk To Kids About Death We don’t like seeing our children get hurt and we go to great lengths to protect them. Unfortunately, we can’t View Post

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

Instilling confidence and raising happy children is a challenge. The Danish way of parenting. Positive parenting tips. Parenting tips to raise happy and confident children. A growth mindset in parenting is important when raising confident kids. #TheDanishWay #PositiveParenting #Growthmindset #ConfidentKids #HappyKids #MamaintheNow

Raise Happy and Confident Children, The Danish Way

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

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Hygge, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Reviews, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: Danish, family, Happiness, Kids, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, review

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