Educating your children tends to be a real challenge, especially if it comes to your first toddler. Toddlers usually demonstrate their independence from an early age and that is why parents should find the right approaches and more importantly, they need to acquire some basic discipline tricks. There have been many discussions about the role […]
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HUMILITY… A LOST ART
HUMILITY… A LOST ART by Virginia Burton Stringer One of the worst injustices, in today’s society, is the loss of humility. A sense of entitlement seems to be pervasive, from toddlers demanding toys in the store aisles, to teenagers, who expect parents to foot the bill for limousines and hotel rooms on prom night. It’s as if […]
5 Tips For Working From Home With A Toddler
If you work from home and have children at home you know how hard it can be to juggle both your work and your home life. It is often made doubly hard by the age of your children, and their individual needs. Here are 5 Tips For Working From Home With A Toddler that are […]
Step Stool Chef celebrates kid independence and leadership!
Remarkable things can happen when you listen to your kids. Our cooking journey began by listening to four simple words: “I can do it”. It was my son’s 3rd birthday and it was the coldest day of the year. We were snowed in and our plans to celebrate had been cancelled. We were able to […]
Protecting the most important things in life.
Warmer weather means summer travel and tons of outdoor activities. From heading to Disney for a weekend to experiencing the mud run as a family, we often find the words ‘play hard and get dirt’ are one and the same. This is where all free clear comes in and helps this supermom in protecting the most important things in […]
Tips for Unplugging and What to Do Once You Go Offline
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of JOLLY TIME Pop Corn for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Today, we take the JOLLY TIME Pop Corn family pledge to Unplug. Pop. Connect. Taking the family experience back by disconnecting from all technology and truly enjoy some quality time! I hope each of you will […]
Surviving a Road Trip With Your Kids
Road trips with kids are awesome for about the first 20 miles are so then the whining usually sets in and nobody is having fun. It’s inevitable; not many people find sitting in the same position watching trees and fence line fly by stimulating and enjoyable. Especially kids with their shorter attention span and boundless […]
Get the Whole Family Moving with Chores
Family battles are known all over the world. Most of them arise when the house needs cleaning. Yeah, boring domestic chores! It’s like they never end and one of the tragic things about them is they can polarize a family into two camps. But rather than fighting over who scrubs the bathroom this time, get […]