Mom Life
As I was putting a few things together for my son’s birthday, I tried to remember what a birthday celebration was like for me as a kid. Unfortunately, when I sat down and thought about it, I couldn’t remember a single birthday from my childhood. Not a single amazing party, gift or theme came to mind. It’s not because my childhood [...]
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Raising KidsWhat Kids Secretly Want to Tell You About Roughhousing – Girls Included!
As I child, I remember roughhousing with my dad in the living room, playing Buck the Bronco. I would jump all over him, giggling incessantly. Then we would play Wake the Sleeping Bear, where he would pretend to be a sleeping bear and I would sit on his head, stand on his back and tickle his feet until he "woke up" and scared the [...]
3 Secrets to Raising Happy Kids
Sometimes raising happy kids feels like an insurmountable task. Someone’s in tears over not getting to eat cake for breakfast, someone’s mad over not going to a friend’s house, and someone’s mad over limited screen time. You get the idea. It’s easy to feel like parenting is equal to plummeting into a black hole in outer space. Recently [...]
