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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

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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)

The ultimate (expert) Disney Cruise packing list, from a veteran Disney-cruiser and mother of four boys. Don't leave home without these all too important items that you probably haven't thought to pack! #Disney #DisneyCruise #DisneyCruisePackingList #CruisePackingList #PackingList #DisneyCruiseTips #mamainthenow

The Ultimate (Expert) Disney Cruise Packing List

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

Filed Under: Baby (0-1 years), Kid (6-9 years), Life Style, Motherhood, Popular, Teen (13-18 years), Toddler (2-5 years), Tween (10-12 years) Tagged With: family, Kids, live in the now, Parenting Shortcut, Pin THIS!

Cell phone rules that will keep tweens safe in the real world. Cell phone contract for tweens. Tweens with cell phones. Cell phone safety rules for tweens and teens. Family tech rules. #CellPhoneRules #TechnologyRules #FamilyTechRules #ParentingTweens #ParentingTeens #CellPhoneRules #Tweens #Teens #Mamainthenow

Cell Phone Rules That Will Keep Your Tween Safe in The Real World

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

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

The internet safety tips your kid will understand and follow. A genius way to explain internet safety to your kids, without unnecessary drama. #InternetSafety #ComputerSafety #InternetRules #Parenting #ParentingTweens #ParentingTeens #Onlinesafety #SafetyTips #Family #MamaintheNow

The Internet Safety Tips Your Kids WILL Follow

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

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

How to have family fun thanks to chores. A chore system that increases family time. A mother's dream: get a clean house AND family time! Mom win! Chore Sticks from Creative QT for the win! #Choresticks #Chores #ChoreSystem #Parenting #FamilyFun #FamilyTime #MamaintheNow #ad

How to Have Family Fun Thanks to Chores

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

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

10 things to do RIGHT NOW when your child has pinworms. Pinworms in kids are NO JOKE, but these must-do tips will help you combat them quickly. Fight pinworms effectively. Learn how to treat pinworms, from a mom who's been there and done that. #Pinworm #PinwormMedicine #PinwormTreatment #MamaintheNow #MyKidsHasPinWorms #HowtogetridofPinworms

10 Things To Do RIGHT NOW When Your Child Has Pinworms

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

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

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