Inside: Use this quarantine kindness activity to help kids thank essential workers like our nurses, doctors, mail carriers, and grocery workers. We are so lucky. During the Coronavirus Pandemic where we’re all social distancing and quarantining, we aren’t really stuck at home. We’re safe at home (even if some days it does feel like we’re […]
Neighborhood Walk Scavenger Hunts to Make Family Walks More Fun
Inside: When you go on your next family walk, take one of these printable neighborhood walk scavenger hunts to make the family walk more fun. When my kids were young, and I’d mention to my mom over the phone they were cranky, she would remind me what her mom always said to her: Get outside. […]
How to Help Kids Connect with Friends During Social Distancing
Inside: During Coronavirus and distance learning, help your kids connect with friends during social distancing with these fun and simple tips. But can we have playdates and sleepovers? It was the first question out of my kids’ mouths right after the last bell rang for school. With the Coronavirus sweeping the world and now the […]
How to Not Blow Up When Our Kids Are Unkind
Inside: How to keep our parenting emotions in check and not blow up when our kids are unkind. Sitting at my daughter’s soccer practice, there were two little kiddos on the sidelines playing together. They couldn’t have been older than three. And one hit the other one. Let’s pause: Hitting is not okay because […]
18 Ways to Stay Sane When You’re Stuck Indoors With Kids
Inside: Stuck at home with kids because of school closures, rainy days, snow days or the Coronavirus/COVID-9? Use these 18 ideas to help keep your sanity when you’re stuck indoors with your kids. We all know parenting is a tough job on a good day. But when you’re stuck indoors because of 10 feet of […]