Parenting With Heart And Humor
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
Teen Dating: Why It's Important & How You Can Encourage Your Teen To Date (Safely) It happened. You thought you were prepared, but one day you woke up to find that your child has become an adolescent. Suddenly, raging hormones and teen angst are the order of the day and trust me, it View Post
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
Tips For Raising A Financially Responsible Teen Much of what I know about financial responsibility I had to learn on my own. While I love my parents, they held the belief that family finances were a private matter and it would only stress their children out to learn about them. This lack of 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
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
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
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
Outdoors Gross Motor Ideas School is out for summer! And it’s time to throw the screens in the trash and kick the kids outside, enjoy the outdoors and get moving! We know that gross motor skills are important for muscle and strength development. We know they are crucial to building confidence and View Post
When your child has pinworms, these are things to do RIGHT NOW! This post is done in collaboration with Reese’s Pinworm Medicine. I partnered with them, because they are our family’s pinworm medicine of choice. I received compensation in return for my honest opinion of their product. It’s a View Post
I am honored to share a guest post by Samantha Randall, the Editor-in-Chief at TopDogTips.com How to Prepare Children for Dog Ownership There are few children that don’t get excited by the idea of getting a dog, but there are even fewer parents that don’t get nervous about getting their kid a dog. View Post
This post is sponsored by Clorox®. I received products and compensation in return for my honest opinion. Every opinion stated is 100% mine. 14 Bathroom Cleaning tricks every boy needs to know Do you ever wonder how your beautiful little cherub-like children can leave SUCH a mess and View Post