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Simple Breakfast Hacks Every Mom Should Know

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This time of day is also the busiest time of day. So how do the best moms out there make the most out of their morning routine? Well, they learn breakfast hacks! Simple breakfast hacks every mom should know will inspire you to have a smooth morning routine while the kids get to their school lesson faster. Whether you’re … [Read more...] about Simple Breakfast Hacks Every Mom Should Know

How to Control Your Emotions as a Parent

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The key to positive effective parenting is to learn how to control your emotions. Raising children will bring about a whole new set of emotions that you’ve never dreamed possible. You’ll go from happy as can be to sad to disappointed throughout the lifetime of your children. These emotions can get overwhelming. You may feel like you’ve failed. You may feel like you’re doing … [Read more...] about How to Control Your Emotions as a Parent

How to Help Kids Cope with Life Without School

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Many kids have had their typical lives uprooted by the pandemic. Most kids had to return home to attend remote learning sessions and are still dealing with this setup. Other kids may have returned to in-person school sessions, but it isn’t like it was. Kids who are living life without school are starting to exhibit signs of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. These are not … [Read more...] about How to Help Kids Cope with Life Without School

Habits of Highly Effective Stay at Home Dads

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More dads are opting to be stay at home dads than ever before. This is a personal decision that must be made within the household, but once it’s made there are many habits that the stay at home dad develops to be highly effective. Since there’s little talk these days about stay at home dads, we wanted to share some of these habits with you. It’s fun to step back and look at … [Read more...] about Habits of Highly Effective Stay at Home Dads

How to be a Patient Parent

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Many studies have been conducted to prove that children who grew up in a home with patient parents tend to have a more realistic approach to life. These children will be more patient, compassionate, and willing to handle the mishaps that occur during their adult life. With that being said, many parents struggle with being a patient parent. It’s not easy to be patient when … [Read more...] about How to be a Patient Parent

Top 3 Parenting Tips to Ignore

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Top parenting experts will happily lend you some parenting advice that’s not always the best advice. Being a new parent involves a lot of stress and fears about whether you’ll be a good parent or not. These fears can deter you from enjoying pregnancy and the first few years of life, believe us, those first few years fly by! Today we wanted to feature the top 3 parenting tips … [Read more...] about Top 3 Parenting Tips to Ignore

Life Lessons Every Child Should Learn

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There are many life lessons your children will learn throughout the course of their lives. These life lessons will help your child grow stronger, smarter, and wiser during their childhood well into adulthood. While we all know that our children will learn some life lessons along their journey to adulthood, we wanted to share some of the most important life lessons every child … [Read more...] about Life Lessons Every Child Should Learn

Ways to Talk About Current Events with Kids

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With so many events happening at once, kids from all over the world are witnessing major events. These events may be confusing and scary for your kids. Most adults are having a hard time wrapping their minds around our current events, so it’s no wonder we need to help each other discuss things at a kid level to help ease anxiety within our kids. Today we’re sharing some tips … [Read more...] about Ways to Talk About Current Events with Kids

Simple Way to Instill Compassion in Kids

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Compassion is an important life skill that every kid should learn. Kids may not be born with certain life skills and social skills, such as compassion. These are skills that one must teach kids throughout their childhood so that they can be a good member of society. With so little compassion being shown in the world today, it’s on parents to start working towards using these … [Read more...] about Simple Way to Instill Compassion in Kids

Can You Be Both a Parent and a Friend?

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Parents are supposed to build close relationships with their children as they’re the child’s first role model. Many parents struggle with the idea of whether or not they can be both a parent and a friend. It’s hard to set boundaries and consequences when you’re a child’s friend. If you become too much of a friend and not enough of the parent, your children could be missing … [Read more...] about Can You Be Both a Parent and a Friend?

Fun Things Kids Can Do In A Snowstorm

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Snowstorms are incredibly hard for families because often kids can struggle to find things to do while parents worry about things like electricity, food, or heat if the storm is going to be severe. However, giving your kids something fun to do during a storm can help you have the time to figure out your situation better as well as help to distract them from fear or anxiety … [Read more...] about Fun Things Kids Can Do In A Snowstorm

How to Practice Gratitude as a Family

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Gratitude is a life skill that every kid should learn. Whether you practice gratitude during the holiday season or all year round, we wanted to help you with some ideas to make sure that gratitude becomes a vital part of your family unit. Below we’re showing some unique ways that you can easily include gratitude with your kids regularly. Whether it’s having a journal for … [Read more...] about How to Practice Gratitude as a Family

Parenting Tips for the 21st Century

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There are many costs of parenting in the 21st Century. College prices have risen, food prices are increasing, and there’s technology everywhere you turn. Raising 21st Century kids provides parents with many challenges. While we acknowledge that the 21st Century brings about some challenges for parents, there are some things you can do to make it easier. Today we’re featuring … [Read more...] about Parenting Tips for the 21st Century

Have Elf on a Shelf Report Good Behavior

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Many parents around the world partake in the holiday tradition of Elf on a Shelf. Typically this elf will help encourage your kids to behave so that they’re able to get presents on Christmas morning. While elf on a shelf is meant to help encourage your kids creativity all the while encourage good manners, there’s another way to use this adorable elf. Consider having Elf on a … [Read more...] about Have Elf on a Shelf Report Good Behavior

The Significance of a United Family

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Family is the most important part of every human being’s life. From a young age, you develop the strongest bond with those within your family unit. From your parents to grandparents and siblings these are the people who help mold you into the person you are today. Parents are there to keep children safe from the day they're born into adulthood. Parents are a child’s first … [Read more...] about The Significance of a United Family

Face Shields vs Face Masks for Kids

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While a face shield may not protect against the virus, combining one with a mask is a preferred method for many caregivers, parents, and kids. Today we’re going to dive into the topic of selecting an option for your kids so that they can be compliant with the current requirements to attend an in-person school or venture into a store. The Downside of Face Masks Face … [Read more...] about Face Shields vs Face Masks for Kids

A Tool to Help Parents with Child Care Plans

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With so many parents out there searching for a way to adapt their life with the new restrictions and having children remote learn, it’s no wonder that many are in need of a tool to help with child care plans this year. Today we’re sharing a new tool that will help parents with their search for safe childcare options amidst the pandemic. This tool will help parents weigh the … [Read more...] about A Tool to Help Parents with Child Care Plans

How to Watch What You Say Around Kids

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Parenting is not a walk in the park. There are so many things you have to think about and model so that your kids learn how to behave like decent human beings. This idea that you can just tell your kids how to behave or beat them into doing what you want is silliness. While yes, kids need consequences and such, they learn the most from watching you! Today we’re going to … [Read more...] about How to Watch What You Say Around Kids

The Ultimate Guide for Family Bonding Activities

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Many families neglect one important part of having a family, making time for each other! In our busy lives, we tend to just live the motions each day without pausing to think about how we can spend time with our loved ones. Family bonding is an essential part of keeping a family together for the long run in life. While many people think that family bonding activities must be … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide for Family Bonding Activities

Ways to Teach Your Kids About Gratitude

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It’s that time of year, the holiday season! It seems many parents have focused on gratitude during this season, as it seems only fitting to work on gratitude with kids during the holidays. This is a time when kids will be getting a lot of presents, foods, and other spoils from their family. Due to the gift-giving season and season of joy and gratitude, it’s time to learn … [Read more...] about Ways to Teach Your Kids About Gratitude

Parenting Techniques That Stand the Test of Time

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Have you ever wondered what parenting techniques have remained regardless of how society changes? Today we’re going to share some of those techniques that have stood the test of time. Each of these parenting techniques is something that perhaps your grandparents abided by and you abided by, and your children may abide by. We don’t know what the future may hold for parenting, … [Read more...] about Parenting Techniques That Stand the Test of Time

What Time Should Kids go to Bed?

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It’s difficult to determine the best bedtime for your kids sometimes. Just like adults, kids need varying bedtimes based on age or ability to fall asleep. Every human being has their personal internal clock that tells them when to be sleepy and when to be awake. This doesn’t work out very well for kids, because it’s their parents who must determine the best time for kids to go … [Read more...] about What Time Should Kids go to Bed?

How to Build a Better Bedtime Routine for Kids

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A bedtime routine is essential if you ever want to have kids that fall asleep quickly and stay asleep. For many parents bedtime is the time when you can enjoy quiet time, fun with your spouse, and a much-needed detox from the busy day of being a parent. Building a better bedtime routine for kids starts with a few steps, and while it may seem like a lot of work at first, we … [Read more...] about How to Build a Better Bedtime Routine for Kids

Mindfulness Practice for Stressed-Out Parents

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Being stressed out as a parent can happen to the best of us. Being a parent requires a lot of patience and is one of the hardest jobs in the world. While many parents will argue that a parent should be paid far more than most high-end occupations, it’s not a job that one will be compensated in money for. Today we wanted to help all stressed-out parents with some tips to … [Read more...] about Mindfulness Practice for Stressed-Out Parents

Alternative Discipline Strategies to Spanking

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The debate over spanking or not spanking a child has been the cause of much conflict between parents everywhere. Whether you’re on the team for spanking or not, we felt it important to feature some alternative discipline strategies to spanking. These strategies will help provide long-lasting benefits to curb the bad decisions made by children during all stages of childhood. … [Read more...] about Alternative Discipline Strategies to Spanking

Distance Learning Hacks for Busy Families

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Are you one of the many families out there dealing with distance learning for the second year? This back to school season life doesn’t look any different than it did halfway through the last school year. Distance learning means your children are home full or part time, attending online classes with their teachers. Many schools have started to return to school with some sort … [Read more...] about Distance Learning Hacks for Busy Families

How to Use Mindfulness with Distance Learning

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Mindfulness is a tool that many people use to reduce anxiety and stress. Right now many parents are starting to deal with a new back to school season of distance learning. While many parents did experience this distance learning last school year, they’re heading into year two and feeling a bit overwhelmed. We wanted to share some tips to help parents out there cope with … [Read more...] about How to Use Mindfulness with Distance Learning

Tips to Support New Parents During the Pandemic

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Parents must work together to provide support for each other during these current times. With many schools returning to in-person learning part-time and remote learning part-time or a full-time remote learning environment, it’s hard for parents to handle the stress. These changes with back to school season have created a new lifestyle that parents must adapt to and some … [Read more...] about Tips to Support New Parents During the Pandemic

What is Mindful Parenting?

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With this busy lifestyle everyone is leading, it’s no wonder the concept of being a mindful parent has been lost. It’s not something any of us did maliciously, it’s just that parents have so many things to handle such as a job, parenting, schooling, and then being a partner on top of it all that we started to grow towards a multitasking mentality. While multitasking seems to … [Read more...] about What is Mindful Parenting?

What New Parents Should Know Before Bringing Home Baby

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As you near the arrival of your new baby, you may be feeling a few mixed emotions. From anxiety to excitement, these are feelings every new parent starts to feel as the birth day nears. If you’re wondering about some of the things you need to know before you bring that little bundle of joy home, then continue reading as we lay out everything that anew parents should know before … [Read more...] about What New Parents Should Know Before Bringing Home Baby

Household Tasks Teenagers Can Do

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Raising teenagers can be a mess and a struggle in many ways. The biggest struggle for most teen parents tends to be getting them to continue to help around the house or do some tasks to help make a parent’s life easier. However, there are a multitude of chores teenagers can do at home. Of course, after you set some tasks to do the issue becomes getting them to do those chores. … [Read more...] about Household Tasks Teenagers Can Do

Signs Your Kids is Anxious about Returning to School

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As a parent, you’re probably stressed out about the back to school season. There are so many changes and no two school districts are handling the reopening of schools the same way. Your school district may be offering a hybrid model of virtual and in-person classes, while the district next door is returning to full-time in-person classes, and then the next school district over … [Read more...] about Signs Your Kids is Anxious about Returning to School

Tips to Help Kids with Social Skills While Distance Learning

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Schools are starting to announce their method of learning for the 2020/2021 school year. This is rather frustrating and overwhelming for many parents. Some working parents aren’t sure how they’ll be able to financially support their family if their children are required to be home part or full time for distance learning while other parents are concerned their children may lose … [Read more...] about Tips to Help Kids with Social Skills While Distance Learning

Remote Learning Mom Hacks for Back to School

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Back to school season looks a little different for many families. With the pandemic still looming over us, many school districts are opting to continue remote learning or distancing learning as some schools call it. This option isn’t feasible for every parent, but when your district says that’s the only option, there’s nothing you can do except to get prepared. Today we’re … [Read more...] about Remote Learning Mom Hacks for Back to School

How to Raise Selfless Children

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Children are born into this world full of hope and caring for other people. As your children enter the toddler years they do have a phase where they think the world revolves around them. With the right habits, parental tricks, and tips you can easily work to raise selfless children. Today we’re going to discuss some ways you can help encourage your children to consider other … [Read more...] about How to Raise Selfless Children

Tips to Help Your Kids Social Distance

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Many school districts have started to announce how they’ll handle back to school season with the pandemic. Some schools have opted for a hybrid of remote learning and in-person learning, while others are going right back into full in-person learning and others are reluctant so they’re starting the first few weeks with a remote learning option. With so many school districts … [Read more...] about Tips to Help Your Kids Social Distance

Pandemic Computer Game Sheds Light on Working Parent Issues

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There’s this new choose your own adventure game that’s all about the pandemic. This game, developed by Smita Venkat, allows you to answer questions in a multiple-choice format as you dive into the world of parenting during this chaotic time. The game is called Parenting in a Pandemic Simulator (PIPS) and it’s opening many conversations among parents of young children ever … [Read more...] about Pandemic Computer Game Sheds Light on Working Parent Issues

Hobbies to Keep Kids Occupied While Stuck at Home

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Pandemic parenting is starting to get tiresome for kids and parents. It’s not easy to keep these kids entertained while you’re stuck at home for months on end! Today we’re featuring some unique hobbies that kids of all ages will enjoy while you’re stuck at home. Whether you’re looking to keep the teenagers out of your hair about visiting their friends or toddlers busy so … [Read more...] about Hobbies to Keep Kids Occupied While Stuck at Home

Composting in Everyday Life

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Our neighbors have what's called a compost pile. This pile is now attracting skunks. Thankfully there's a small fence in between the homes, but that hasn't stopped the little skunk visitor to walk around the fence and check out our swing set area. Thankfully, we don't have anything outside that will attract the skunk or keep the skunk around in our yard. It still sucks. I … [Read more...] about Composting in Everyday Life