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What No One Tells You About Parenting Toddler Boys

Parenting toddler boys - 3 crucial steps every parent should know

I’m probably the last person who wants to make a distinction between parenting toddler boys versus girls. There are too many gender stereotypes that create foreshadowing in life. Boys play with trucks. Girls play with dolls. Boys wear blue. Girls wear pink. Boys are rough. Girls are gentle. Sometimes we use these [...]

MilSpouse Life

15 Hilarious Stages of Military Spouse Friendship Explained in GIFs

To outsiders, military spouse friendship may seem like a run of the mill friendship. But the truth is you spend forever looking for a new best friend, then you fall hard and fast, and then—as happens with any tragedy—you are ripped apart by PCS orders and spend the rest of your lives hoping you’ll land in the same duty [...]

Raising Kids

One Genius Phrase Every Parent Needs When Their Kids Says, “I Can’t.”

Learn one phrase that will help you build problem solving skills in kids this school year. If your child says, "I can't" or wants to give up, this is the best response.

Inside: Learn one phrase that will help your child get unstuck when a challenge shows up. If your child says, "I can't" or wants to quit, this is the best response. I took two sips of coffee, sat on the couch and immediately noticed my strong-willed child creeping down the stairs. The scowl on his face said it all. I’d been parenting [...]

Military Resources

The Emotional, Stressful and Exhausting Reality of a PCS Move

recovery from a military pcs move

The longer we are active duty military, the more quickly and aptly I’m able to self-diagnose and articulate the funk I’m in. What it is this time, is something I have recently described as the Post-PCS Crash, also known as Complete Depletion. There is a process to arriving at this state of being, so I’ll explain. For the few weeks [...]

Raising Kids

The Real Reason Why Parents Yell at Their Kids

The number one reason why parents yell. Plus, the 2-minute strategy that can help you stop yelling immediately.

Inside: The number one reason why parents yell. Plus, the 2-minute strategy that can help you stop yelling and squash the angry mom inside you. My kids could not stop giggling. I honestly didn't understand it, but they were making "monster faces" and this was, apparently, the funniest thing they ever did see. The kids hopped out [...]

Mom Life

7 Things Resilient Mothers Do Differently

Being a stay-at-home mom for the first time, I struggled. I blame my type-A personality that I inherited from my mother. For some reason, I thought my first baby would fit into a perfect baby book mold. I thought that he would sleep and eat and do things the way I wanted, when I wanted. Turns out, he had a plan of his own, which [...]

MilSpouse Life

The Pain of Saying Goodbye to Your Military Spouse Tribe

How to say goodbye to your military spouse friends. Beautiful message and story for military wives and military girlfriends to read before their next military PCS move.

A huge thank you to Kellie Artis is the Director of Content for MILLIE for contributing this post.  Who’s guilty of mentally checking out as soon as you get PCS orders? One could hardly blame us. In the military community, our friend-turnover rate is high, and our friend-courting phase is typically very short. Think about it: If you [...]

Mom Life

How Positive Affirmations Change My Mindset on the Really Hard Mom Days

So inspirational and encouraging to see these printable positive affirmations for moms. Love the printable cards!

“I don’t like it.” Those were the first words my son uttered at the beginning of our family dinner. I just spent the last hour dealing with two strong-willed kids gnawing at me underfoot as I prepared a meal to eat. And now? They couldn’t bear to eat a morsel of the dinner I carefully crafted to their liking. It took [...]

MilSpouse Life

47 Things No One Tells You About Being a Military Wife

47 surprising things about being a military wife. Great read for military spouses and military significant others. I learned so much from life with our military family over the past eight years.

She turned her head towards me and uttered the words I dreaded most, “You knew what you were getting into right?” I always hate getting asked this question because, in a way, I did know what military life would be like--frequent moves, separations and the overall feeling that life is a like a revolving door. But at the same time, I [...]

MilSpouse Life

9 Relationship Truths Only a Military Spouse Will Understand

Military marriage tips you learn | military relationship tips for military spouses | military wife | military girlfriend | military

If I’d known better, I would’ve stayed home until I got the “official” phone call. My husband was finally coming home from deployment after months away on ship. 36 weeks pregnant (with a soon to be 10 lb baby) with a very energetic toddler in the peak of an oppressively hot summer, and I was so ready for my husband to hurry up and get [...]

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