The "trick" to get your kids to listen the first time lies more in the changes WE can make as parents instead of changing our kids. If you are tired of yelling "Make up your bed" only to walk upstairs and see covers undone, read on... "Come downstairs and get your shoes on....we are late!!!" I yell loudly to my two girls up the stairs. To be honest, it's my mantra every day ...
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Your “Best” Pediatrician Checklist
If you have a young child, you of course want to find the best pediatrician. Which is easier said than done! As someone who's daughter has spent more than her fair share in doctor's offices, I have learned that the best pediatricians will always meet these 6 criteria. I have never failed to find interesting the fact that new moms will agonize for hours over the best carseat, the ...
Sometimes Church Just Has To Wait
I've learned over the years, that sometimes church just has to wait. And coming from a fairly religious person, that just might throw you off. THE SNOW The snow was falling ever so softly Sunday morning...small tender snowflakes barely making it to the too-warm ground. And yet, by some defiance of nature, the snow was laying and sticking to the brown bermuda grass in our ...
3 Conversation Starters For Kids
If you are struggling to glean details from your child's day, start asking these 3 Conversation Starters For Kids and watch them finally open up! It is so interesting to observe the differences in our children's personality...one can be shy while the other one knocks you over to meet a new friend at the park. One can love to be outside while the other thinks she should only be ...
What Moms Eat
Crumpled wrapper from a pack of crackers...3 partially drunk bottles of water...20+ goldfish scattered across the floorboard in various states of crumbs... Just a sprinkling of the various things covering my car the other night. And I embarrasingly admit I ate a few of those goldfish and it made me think about what moms eat...every day...any average mom of young kids. ...
Day 10 Create Your Own Family Traditions
Being a better mom sometimes means making mountains out of molehills. Day 10 Create Your Own Family Traditions speaks to how even the simplest things can become family traditions that our children will carry with them into their own role as parents. Family Traditions Don't Have To Cost Money As a child growing up - in what I am certain was poverty though my parents never let me ...
31 Days And 31 Ways To Be A Better Mom
Are we ready?! 31 Days and 31 Ways to be a Better Mom commences NOW! For those who have been following this blog, you likely know that some of my favorite topics to write about are parenting and raising our children - the good, the bad, the ugly. The sweet and the bittersweet. The funny and the sad. Because, as a mom (or dad!), it becomes all too ...
One Simple Trick to Stop Bad Dreams Now
My little girls started going through a terrible phase of having bad dreams until I did this one simple trick to stop bad dreams now! Try it tonight and help your kiddos rest easy! Neither of my girls experienced nightmares until they turned 3 or 4. But boy when it started, it was a rough period for everyone in the house! My older daughter would sometimes wake crying and ...
17 Things Every New Mom Needs
Having a baby for the first time is such a life changing experience that having these 17 things every new mom needs will help her survive that first year! Because we all need some help getting through that transition! When I had my first daughter, my entire world was turned upside down in every good sense of that saying. I wondered how I had gone all my life thinking I knew what love ...
