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Healthy Eating Tips for Picky Eaters
I know that many moms struggle with feeding their children. Particularly if one, or more, of those children is considered a picky eater. I know because I fight this battle every.single.day. and have...
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Entertainment: 5 Tips to Creating the Perfect Playdate
Activities—Let's face it! For moms with kids at home, our entertainment is often limited to our kids—the places we take them, the fun we have with them, and the things they do that make us laugh. When...
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Decorating for a Kid’s Valentine’s Day Party
I love holiday parties. I especially love throwing kids parties. I get a kick out of planning everything! I'm a party person! You know what else I am? A cheap person. I am always try to be thrifty...
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Support: 8 Tips for Parenting Children With Health and Other Challenges
Let's go back in time a moment, shall we? Growing Up With Epilepsy I'm 14. One day I'm watching an after-school special with my classmates about a kid with Epilepsy. He has a seizure during a...
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Adopting a Child – Learning to Bond and Celebrate
Although Riley's adoption took a year and 1/2 to finalize, he was living with us after only a few months of knowing him. We had full custody and guardianship by May 12th, 2013 after learning his name...
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Family: The Importance of Mother-Son Relationships
Parenting—When you are a mom all of your children are special, son or daughter, first or last. Each holds a special place in your heart but in a very different way. My son and daughter are polar...
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Strengthening Parent/Child Bonds: 6 Tips for Dating Your Children
In working with clients over the years, I've witnessed so many missed opportunities for parents and kids to connect that I've begun pointing out simple ways you can "date your kids." X In addition to...
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5 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Emotional Health
Today, every child needs to be prepared for the time when they’ll accidentally be exposed to pornography, which can cause distress and isolation behaviors in children. “Crash and tell” is a common...
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Parenting Advice: How to Handle Unsolicited Feedback From Grandma
Parenting Advice—Being a parent is the hardest job in the world, but it is also the most rewarding. Since parenting does not come with a handbook, most of us leave the hospital wondering what to do...
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Emotion Coaching: A New Way to Guide Very Young Children
Parenting is one of the hardest jobs we’ll ever have. More than anything we want to help our kids grow into healthy, happy adults. Yet when they don’t behave the way we want them to, it’s all too easy...
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Make It Happen Blueprint: #MIHBbook #gno Twitter Party
Playing the role of a mother, a wife, a sister, a teacher all at the same time entails a lot of sacrifices. Most of the time we forget how to unwind, go out with some girlfriends and just have some...
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Family Garden: How to Build a Strong Relationship with Your Child
When I was a little girl, I would work with my grandmother in her garden on the south side of her house, learning how to pick cherry tomatoes and spy the worms that destroyed the tomato plants. She...
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Things I’ve Learned in Motherhood
I've been a mom for a few years, eight to be exact. And through the joy, chaos, laughter, and tears...I've learned a few things. Things that every mom should know. So I've gathered the most important...
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Autism Awareness to #LightitUpBlue – A Mom’s Perspective
This year, Autism Awareness is more important than ever as we are processing my son's austism diagnosis and what it means for helping him plan for the future. Since April is World Autism Month, I’ve...
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Teaching Children to Recognize Emotions With Art
The key to teaching children to recognize emotions is by getting hands on and involving them in the teaching and learning process (like in this post on learning to identify emotions with cupcakes)....
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Mary Poppins and Motherhood: Five Tips for Creating Magical Moments With Your...
When I think about the perfect role model mother figure from the movies, I immediately think of Mary Poppins. She swoops in and gets the kids to clean, feed the birds, and love to laugh without any...
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Parents: How Fathers Can Build Relationships With Their Kids
Fathers play a significant role in the development of their children and nothing is as heart warming than the relationship between a daughter and her father. Even though I may be an adult who no longer...
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Healthy Mom&Baby: #MindfulDiapering #gno Twitter Party
Do you know that a simple act of changing your baby’s diaper could do so much more? Diapering is the perfect time to enhance your baby’s development, physical growth, emotional well-being, family bond...
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#MindfulDiapering Giveaway: Win $250 Amazon Gift Card
Diapering can be so much more than a quick change - you’re making a love connection that improves baby’s growth and attachment. What other best practices do you have with your baby during diaper...
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Inexpensive Summer Time Family Fun Tips
We heard some great tips from Kathy Peel on bringing the family together during Tuesday’s #gno party, but here are so more to consider for family fun this summer! Go on a scavenger hunt at a museum or...
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