It’s Back to School Lunch Time! Please Ditch the Ziplocs.
It’s that time again! Back to school! Which means, of course, back-to-school lunches and snacks. It’s important to me to send the kids to school with a…
Two Simple Ways to Mindfully Communicate with our Kids
We’ve all (unfortunately) heard the refrain “children should be seen and not heard.” Thankfully, most people recognize that this antiquated perspective has no place in a modern…
Ideas for Naturally Strengthening our Kids’ Immunity
I think most kiddos are back in school at this point (though I’m still lamenting the loss of August as part of summer—what happened to starting school…
Encouragement Over Praise
One of my favorite parenting resources is Positive Parenting Solutions, created by Amy McCready. It’s a program designed to help us communicate and relate to our children…
A Few Ideas to Keep Little Minds Creative this Summer
Summer is closing in, which (hopefully) means more family time! And while the great outdoors is our classroom over the summer, it also helps to have some…
Fun and Educational Water Activities to Welcome Back the Sun!
Spring has officially sprung, and the sun is bathing us once again. It’s time to get outside and enjoy the most natural toy there is—water! We all…
The Impact of Mommy Wine Culture on Our Children
Mommy Juice. The memes abound. We’ve all seen them. Maybe laughed at them. And enter quarantine, the wine-o-clock mindset has become almost omnipresent. I think wine-o-clock used…
Avoid Power Struggles By Empowering Your Kids
We’ve all probably experienced those tantrums that seem to make no sense or come out of nowhere. The infuriating refusals to do simple things, or not do…
Building Our Kids’ Resilience with Positive Affirmations
As parents, one of our primary goals is to protect our children. We hold their little hands, put helmets on them, and make sure they don’t stray…
Cultivating Gratitude in Our Littles (and Ourselves)
It’s the month of thanks! And amidst (maybe because of) the challenges 2020 has brought, November has me particularly focused on gratitude—both my own and how we…
Ideas for Adding More Spinach into Our Kiddos’ Diets
Maybe it’s not too surprising that often the hardest things to feed our kids are the things that are the very best for them. But if we…
Making the Most of the Covid Halloween
The holiday season is officially upon us, and I think it’s safe to say that none of us expected back in March that we would still be…
Three Ways We Can Help Our Littles Cultivate a Healthy Body Image Starting at an Early Age
In this often vicious era of social media, body image insecurity in our children is skyrocketing, and at earlier and earlier ages, which makes my heart hurt. …
Why We Should Consider (Usually) Ditching the Kids’ Menu
If someone asked you to guess what choices are on a kids’ menu, at any given restaurant, chances are you’d score better than most tests you took…
Three Fun Ideas for Our Littlest Emerging Readers
One of the most important things I think we can do for our kids from the time they’re born is surround them with books, books, and more…
Easy Homeschool Setup Ideas for the Covid-19 School Year
We’ve all faced a lot of really difficult decisions these past few months, including decisions around our kids’ education. When we learned our district was going to…
Three Simple But Powerful Ways to Show Our Children the Respect They Deserve
In my opinion, the cornerstone of effective, loving, positive parenting is respect. I think we’ve all heard the antiquated view that children should be seen and not…
Two Super Fun Ways to Spark Your Kiddos’ Imaginations at Home!
One of my absolute favorite things about having kids is hearing the amazing things they say. Completely uninhibited and untethered to boring old reality. And while there…
The Importance of Creating a “Print-Rich” Environment for Our Children
I admire, and in many ways aspire to be like, Marie Kondo, but one thing we fundamentally disagree about is the utility of keeping as many books…
Family Meetings the Kiddos Will Love
I don’t know about you, but before I had children, I always thought of “The Family Meeting” as a serious, maybe even somber event, in which there…