Tag: kids

Reading opens up entire new worlds to you, transports you to new places, and lets you live vicariously through someone else. Want to slay...

How many of you grew up watching Mister Rodgers? He truly was a brilliant man who had so many great words of wisdom, one in...

  I’m conflicted about the state of my daughters’ bedrooms. They are thirteen and their rooms are a perpetual state of mess. One occasionally gets...

My oldest turned nine recently, and one of his gifts (perhaps his favorite) was a new bike. This bike was the catalyst to an...

"If there’s no fire, flood or blood – work it out."   "If there’s no fire, flood or blood – work it out."  When I...

Growing up I had a close friend who swam competitively. She and her four brothers all swam on the same team. At the time,...

'Tis the season...for accidents. If your holidays are anything like mine, you'll agree that this time of year is an accident waiting to happen! Ladders are...

It's not always possible to ensure our children's safety when they're out in the world, but it's a different story when they're at home...

I caved to the pressure last Christmas and convinced my husband that it was time to get our twelve year old daughters smartphones. They were...

This year our daughters transferred from a small K-8 school to a large public middle school. To put the change in perspective, their current...

One of my favorite perks of living in the Sunshine State is the ease of being able to pack our bags and hit the road...

I recently attended a baby shower and found myself fascinated by some of the gifts - new baby products that did not exist when my...

We truly live where everyone else vacations, which we hate when it comes to snowbird traffic, but we love when we are looking for...

One of my kids' favorite things right now...Sugarcrash Kids! Each time we get in the car, my kids ask for one of two things: Sugarcrash...

  Parenting Without Power Struggles, by Susan Stiffelman, is the best parenting book I’ve read. That’s high praise considering that I’ve read twenty-six parenting books over the...