Inside: Gratitude can’t just be taught during Thanksgiving. We need to purposefully teach our kids to be grateful and we can use these meaningful year-round gratitude activities to do focus on it. I offered my daughter a cookie the other day and she immediately counteroffered. “Can I have two cookies?” she asked. I just stared […]
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14 Ways to Entertain Kids in a Hotel Room
Inside: Kids can get easily bored during a hotel or motel stay. Here are 14 ways to entertain kids in a hotel room without screens. My husband and I were raised in families that loved to travel. And so we traveled as much as we could before we had children. And now we are instilling […]
How to Show Your Kid’s Teacher Appreciation During Distance Learning
Inside: Teacher Appreciation during distance learning and the quarantine can still be meaningful with these social distancing- safe ideas. I joke that I’m a recovering elementary school teacher. Other teachers usually chuckle when they hear it because they know. Being a teacher is amazing, and uplifting, and rewarding. But it’s also exhausting and thankless (usually) […]
35 Super Fun Ways to Be More Silly With Your Kids
Inside: Have you ever wanted to be sillier with your kids? Have more fun with them as a mom? Moms get bogged down with chores and discipline that we sometimes forget that the to-do lists can wait, but our kids can’t. If we focus on being more sillier and more fun as a mom, their […]
What Every Parent Should Know to Help Stop Bullying
Inside: There are many different kinds of bullying, and it all needs to end. You can help stop bullying in schools and on playgrounds with this one simple solution you can teach your kids today. My fourth-grade daughter has been bringing home more than just homework and art projects from school. She’s coming home with […]