Best Starter Phones for Kids and Tweens: A Parent’s Guide to Safe First Phones
Do you know about the option of
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How to Plan Food for a (Really) Large Group: Taco Bar Prep for Graduation Party, Wedding, Shower, Etc.
I love a challenge, and although you wouldn’t know it if you visited my house, I can organize an event like nobody’s business (just not the piles of paper that infiltrate my kitchen). What is the best food to serve for a party…with a few hundred people…on a budget? Who needs to pay a caterer
Welcome Back to School: Sustainability, Lunch Ideas, and More!
Head Back to School Sustainably in 2024 It’s the time of year when school supplies seem to have taken over my house and I’m scouring…
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Top 10 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids Before They Turn 18
When I was a kid, I never once said, “I want to be a digital entrepreneur when I grow up.” I never had “be a…
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Strange Behavior: Teaching Our Kids Important Life Skills
Have you taught your kids how to identify strange behavior? It’s an important life skill you don’t want to miss. Growing up, I was taught about stranger danger. My parents and teachers dutifully told me to be aware of the maleficent motives of adults that I didn’t know. However, according to the CDC, “Someone known
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High School Graduation Party Planning Ideas
When I started planning the graduation party for my oldest, my college roommate came to mind. When she graduated high school, she lived in a…
Understanding the Baby Blues After Birth
This post was written by JayDee Vykoukal from Mom Blog Life. Becoming a parent is an exciting and joyous experience, but it also comes with challenges. One common challenge that many new parents face is experiencing feelings of sadness and mood changes after their baby is born. With such a huge life change, who wouldn’t
Simple Tips to Keep Your Kids Healthy This Year
One of the biggest misconceptions in the health and wellness world is that in order to improve your health and the health of your kids, the first step is a drastic diet change or adding in numerous supplements. In reality, that is a recipe for overwhelm and setbacks. This is especially true when it comes
Positive Parenting Solutions Review | Skill Building for Parents
I first heard about Positive Parenting Solutions in an email PS from Katie. So I watched the webinar and was hooked. We all want to…
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I Let My Kids Plan and Cook All of Their Own Meals for a Month. Here’s What Happened.
Does it sound crazy? Maybe a little, but believe it or not, letting my kids plan, buy, and cook all of their own food was one of the highlights of our summer. Hi, I’m Steph from CheapskateCook.com, where I teach people how to save money and eat healthy at the same time. I’ve been learning
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No More Bedwetting Accidents – Simple Natural Solutions for Almost Every Kid
Bet you’d never think constipation would have anything to do with bedwetting at night – but it might. I couldn’t believe how many people struggle with constipation in their toddlers, and it’s possible that those solutions will help the nighttime potty accidents as well! I have plenty of personal experience, unfortunately: You don’t expect to
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Why Professional Development Should Be Required for Parenting
You’d think that after 4 years of college and a full year internship program in education, that I’d be uniquely and perfectly suited to be a parent. That as a trained teacher of children and a teacher of an online cooking course for kids that I’d kind of know it all and have much less of
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How to Teach Kids to Swim Upstream in a Toxic Culture
I want my kids to rise above their culture, in spite of all the mistakes I make as a parent. I want them to learn the hard lessons. To have a killer work ethic. To eat real food. To be kind and generous. I want “entitlement” to be so far out of their vocabulary that
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Un-Frazzled and Un-Entitled: 4 Ways to Have Drama-Free Time With Family {GUEST POST}
This post is from Parenting Expert and Author Amy McCready. Ever feel like there should be foreboding background music playing when it comes to dealing with family dinnertime? Trying to serve real food and have real family time – when you’re really just frazzled and overwhelmed? I get it. I’ve been there. But, you know
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Why I Don’t Believe in Mommy Wars
You’re a terrible parent. You’ve made some awful choices, and your kids are probably not going to turn out well now. You know who you should act like when you parent, and when you make every decision that will affect your family? Things like whether or not to work, if you breastfeed or use a
5 Solutions for Parents who Give up on Babywearing Because Baby Seems to have an Opinion {VIDEO}
Quitters. I hear it all the time, from real-life friends and readers at Kitchen Stewardship®: “I tried that babywearing stuff, but my baby just didn’t like it. It wasn’t worth the fussing, so I just gave up.” Breaks my heart. Those same mamas will often admit their struggles with getting things done around the house,
5 Unpopular Reasons to Jump into Babywearing with Both Feet
I hate being wrong. Such a shame it happens SO often. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, but it still stings! When I posted a video recently on Facebook of how I used a ring sling at church to make life easier, I wasn’t really trying to teach anything, but I was
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One Word: Intentional (Part One: Life)
When January rolls around, it seems like everyone is making resolutions to lose weight and ready to change their life in the new year. It’s overwhelming at times. Lately I keep seeing people with organized plans for success, including their “One Word” for the year. I didn’t get it. Like I said last week, I
I {heart} My Moby Wrap (How-to Videos)
Babywearing can be a great tool for soothing baby, can allow mama to multi-task, and can be that second pair of hands that we all need sometimes. The moby wrap was my favorite when my kids were babies. Here are a few of my tips on breastfeeding in the moby wrap and a couple of