Parenting
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Holiday Self-Care Gift Guide for Moms
Looking for a self-care treat and gifts for all your kids that will create time to focus on you? This Mom’s Self-Care Gift Guide is for you.
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Gabb Z2 Phone Review
The Gabb Z2 phone allows my daughter to stay connected with her friends and has all of the options we decided were important for her phone.
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3 Halloween Alternatives to Trick-or-Treating
This year Halloween will look a little different thanks to COVID. We won’t be trick-or-treating, and the Switch Witch won’t be visiting. But that doesn’t mean we won’t be celebrating. Even though we won’t have an abundance of candy to get rid of, we’ve decided we’re still holding true to Halloween. That means candy. To keep your fun, candy-filled evening with your family this year, try these three Halloween alternatives to trick-or-treating that we’ll be doing. 3 Ways to Celebrate Halloween without Trick-or-Treating 1. Candy Hunt It’s not Halloween if your kids aren’t collecting candy in their pails. So have them collect, just change the location. Instead of going house…
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Take a Deep Breath to Survive the School Year
“Take a deep breath.” I was told this a few times when the realities of this school year hit me. Admittedly, I needed to hear it—I was freaking out a bit. (I’m homeschooling my seventh grader even though that wasn't our plan, and I was feeling very overwhelmed.) After taking the advice and a few deep breaths, I got to work figuring out my curriculum and then how I’m going to survive the school year. I realized it boils down to six things anyone can do and I’m already doing.
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Waldorf Homeschooling Options
So many new things at the moment. And it all revolves around Waldorf homeschooling. Homeschooling! I’m trying my hardest not to run and hide in the closet or pull a book off the shelf and get lost in a story.
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Summer Word Search Fun
My oldest has been making a notebook filled with math worksheets and other things in preparation for the summer trips we’ve been planning. She'll be able to keep herself busy while also practicing everything she learned this past year. (Essentially, she's created a notebook of things to avoid the “summer slide.”)
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Book Review—It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
How to Talk with Your Child about Sex Do you have an older child or teen? Have you talked with them about puberty and sex yet? I didn’t think the puberty talk was that bad. Really, it was a series of smaller talks as I’ve always been very open with my girls, from a young age, about menstruation and the changes that happen during puberty. (You kind of have to be when they follow you into the bathroom as a toddler.) I also signed my oldest daughter up for a class through her school with some of her peers that helped make sure all the bases were covered as far…
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Mother’s Day Guilt
For years, Mother’s Day brought on a sense of guilt for me. I knew the inevitable question of “What do you want to do today?” would be asked. What did I want to do? If I was completely honest, some years I just wanted to say, “To not have to do anything. To not have to be a mom for the day.” But that wasn’t right, was it? Mother’s Day was a day to celebrate being a mom and spending time with the family—the whole reason for being a mom. A good mom wouldn’t want time for herself, would she? A good mom wouldn’t feel the need to not be…
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Happy 2019?
Be Careful What You Wish For 2019 is not off to the start I was expecting. Granted, my house is clean, as I was forced to clean it in an attempt to keep a lovely stomach virus from spreading. Apparently, my cleaning skills are lacking, or my cleaning products. Let’s say it’s the latter. I, unfortunately, have no one else to blame but myself though. As I was updating our white-board calendar in the kitchen for the first week of January 2019, I was amazed to find that every day until school starts again was filled. Granted, I was looking forward to the things as they involved seeing friends, ice…
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What do you do with all the candy?
If you’re like my family, who loves Halloween—dressing up and trick-or-treating with friends—but doesn’t love all the candy and sickness that invariably follows, you might want to try what our family does. After trick-or-treating, we let our girls eat some candy. (If you’re going to trick-or-treat, you have to at least have some! If you want to make sure your kids only eat certain types of candy though, say made with organic ingredients, you can always buy the candy you approve of beforehand and switch their candy once you get home before they eat any. We have friends who do this and it works great for their family.) Whatever is…
