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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

Prepare your kids for back to school by talking about bullying. Talk to your kids about bullying: how to prevent, how to react and what to do if you witness it. Teach your kids about bullying. #Bullying #StopBullying #SchoolBullying #ParentingTip #Parenting #MamaintheNow

Ten Things to Tell Your Kids About Bullying!

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

Filed Under: Kid (6-9 years), Motherhood, Parenting, Teen (13-18 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: friends, Kids

Fun activities for money smart kids. Creative ways to teach financial literacy to kids, tweens and teens. Teach your kids about financial responsibility and the value of money with these fun money activities. Math activities. Money lessons. #TeachingKids #FinancialLiteracy #MoneySmartKids #TeachingKidsAboutMoney #MamaintheNow

10 Super Fun Activities For Money Smart Kids

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

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

Parenting teens. Teaching teens how to manage strong emotions. Teen parenting tips. How to help teens manage emotions. Emotional teens. #Parenting #ParentingTeens #mamainthenow #ParentingTips #TeenParentingTips

Teaching Teens How to Manage Their Strong Emotions

Teaching Teens to Feel and Manage Their Roller Coaster of Emotions Parents often complain that their teens’ over-the-top reactions to the smallest issues are annoying and irritating. But let’s take a step back and try to understand teens a little. Chances are, if you are reading this, you have View Post

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

Best ways to teach kids internet safety. Keep kids safe online. Online safety tips for kids. Internet safety tips for kids. Teaching kids online safety. #MamaintheNow #SaferInternetDay #BeInternetAwesome #Sponsored

The Best Ways to Teach Kids Internet Safety

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

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

Teen dating is an important part of adolescence. Parenting tips for teen dating. Parenting teens. Safe teen dating tips. Raising responsible teens and how to safely allow teen dating. #MamaintheNow

Teen Dating: Why It’s Important and How You Can Encourage Your Teen to Date (Safely)

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

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

Personal hygiene tips for active tween and teen boys - from a mother of four boys. Self care tips for tweens and teens. Parenting tweens and teens. Teaching hygiene to tween and teen boys. @PrepUProducts #naturalproduct #naturalskincare #smellyalater #activelifestyle #aluminumfree #boymom #teendeodorant #active #tween #teen #crueltyfree #mengrooming #coolkids #detox #healthylifestyle #charcoal #charcoaldeodorant #teenmom #boycare #ad

The Best Personal Hygiene Tips for Active Tweens

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

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

Get rid of pinworms (almost) naturally. Cure pinworms, find best solutions to your child's itchy bottom. Natural pinworm or threadworm cure for kids and adults.

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally – FOR GOOD!

How to Treat Pinworms (almost) Naturally If you've found this post, first and foremost, please know that I am sorry. But also know that I am here to give you hope, tips and tricks of how to treat pinworms - all the information I am sharing here worked for our family. You have not been properly View Post

Filed Under: Health, Kid (6-9 years), Parenting, Popular, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: germs, health, Kids

How to raise a financially responsible teen. Teach your tween and teen financial responsibility with these tips. Tips for parenting teens. Financial literacy for teens. #FinancialResponsibility #RaisingTeens #ParentingTeens #FinancialLiteracy #Parenting #ParentingTips #ParentingYoungAdults #RaisingResponsibleKids #MamaintheNow #FinanciallyResponsible

How to Raise a Financially Responsible Teen

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

Filed Under: Financial Life, Parenting, Teen (13-18 years)

Raising secure and confident boys to be mature grown men. Parenting tips from a mother of three. Parenting boys and raising little men. Parenting advice from a mom of three boys. Raise secure boys who may or may not play sports. #Parenting #ParentingBoys #RaisingBoys #BoyMom #parentingtips #MamaintheNow #ParentingAdvice #RaisingLittleMen

How to Raise Secure Boys: Let Them Be Themselves!

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

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

DIY Advent Countdown for Christmas Calendars. Christmas countdown for kids. Daily advent calendars for kids. These DIY Christmas advent calendars are Christmas fun for the whole family. #Advent #Adventcalendars #DIYChristmas #DIYAdventCalendar #DIYAdventCalendars #CountdowntoChristmas #mamainthenow #ChristmasCrafts

The Most Amazing DIY Advent Calendars for Christmas

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

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

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