When your kids ask for screen time, exactly how much begging can you take before you give in? 2 minutes? 10? Do you hold your ground despite their determination to wear you down? I’ve developed a thick skin during my career as “the mean mom who limits screen time,” so my kids know I mean…
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This Hilarious Item Will Help You Survive Family Gatherings
Do your children feel anxious in large family gatherings? Or maybe you do! Perhaps your children (or you!) are introverts and all the conversation and questions about “how are you doing” rattles the brain and they just want to go into the back room and curl up with a good book. (This post contains affiliate…
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15 Inexpensive (or FREE) Fun Family Activities for Black Friday
It’s one of the great mysteries of American life. We’ve just enjoyed a holiday expressing gratitude for family, friends, health and all the other non-material blessings in our lives. At yet the thing that is uppermost on our minds is that we need to wake up at 3am to wait in a long line just…
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How to Help a Sore Loser Develop Good Sportsmanship
If you are reading this right now you might be desperate to learn how to help a sore loser. You are all too familiar with this scene: The family is playing a board game, you’ve already implemented all these tips for a peaceful family game night, and the game is about to come to an…
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Secret Parenting Tip: Get Your Kids To Leave You Alone for 10 Minutes
Picture the scene: The dishes are dirty, LEGO is scattered all over the floor, one child is pulling at your leg asking for a cookie, the other is dumping out his drawer looking for a missing superhero cape. Are you still with me, or have you gone to your happy place? In some parenting circles…
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How to Read to Differently Aged Children for Great Family Read Aloud Time!
Is family read aloud time sometimes a little bit frustrating because your kids aren’t close in age? Maybe one child wants a board book and the other one wants a chapter book? What if I said you CAN read aloud to differently aged children at the same time AND keep the kids happy (while staying…
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How to Spend Dinner Time Without Asking “How Was Your Day?”
Picture the scene: You’ve had a long day. You’re tired, the kids are cranky and you are all desperate to get some food in your bellies. You know you should use this family dinner time as a way to connect with your kids, find out what’s going on in their lives. Help them on the…
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The Key to Ending Tech Tantrums Forever
Electronics can be useful. Our kids use them for school, for getting driving directions, for face-timing with distant relatives, to look up a vocabulary definitions, to get access to the library catalog and yes, even the occasional video game. Technology may not the enemy but when your child is having an epic meltdown—the dreaded “tech tantrum”— after…
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