I recently received a communication from a family member insinuating that I make my child’s life too easy. 

Being healthy didn’t come easily to me. But I knew when I got pregnant, I had to get it together.  

I am not a financial advisor or a money guru. I am, however, a business owner with a stay-at-home partner, so we have to be fiscally responsible since we live on one income.  

Daylight savings time came and brought with it a bunch of SAD - seasonal affective disorder.

My sweet little 3 ½ year old isn’t choosing me anymore. 

Whether you’re looking to get out of chilly weather or get super involved in fall activities, I’ve got a few family favorites below. 

Life doesn’t stop because you don’t have the bandwidth for it. Sometimes, you need to shut down for a bit.  After struggling with too many emotions for too long, I recently had a little shut down. Maybe it was a big shut down, and unfortunately, it went on for too long. It wasn’t healthy – I wasn’t healthy – and ...

As someone who has their toddler on a one-hour-a-day-or-less screentime policy, I didn’t think I would find much helpful information inside, that it would be geared more toward older kids.  Boy, was I wrong. 

What toddler doesn’t like to get their way? But there are a few strategies we use as parents that I believe have helped cultivate a positive disposition. 

Time moves so fast. It’s like the rush of wind when you’re driving with the windows down. It speeds by, and in the blink of an eye, life has skipped forward. 

Being grateful, being happy, and being positive are probably my three best traits as a parent and as a person. 

I once took a quiz about being a workaholic. The answers pointed to probably “yes.”

The key to limited meltdowns is obnoxious over-explanation. I swear that this is the entire reason my kid is so well behaved. I am not a psychologist or a geneticist, but for myself, managed expectations are the reason for my emotional chill. I am convinced that also applies to little people.   Nearly all of my family is back in the Midwest. ...

Like every other mother out there, my kiddo amazes me constantly. It’s not even that she’s doing anything special (she’s just a toddler after all), but she looks at the world in this magical way with eyes that are new and fresh and inquisitive of everything around her.

All your kids want is your attention. So give it to them.