Category: Parenting & Education
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Ask Your Child These 3 Questions Every Night
Tucking your child into bed is a familiar routine, and frequently includes bedtime stories or simply chatting for a few minutes. Asking your child three simple questions every night before they drift into slumber is beneficial for a number of reasons. Let’s review what these questions are and why they are so important to your…
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5 Tips For Saving Money On Your Food Budget
If you increasingly feel like your food budget is out of control, don’t stress. Plenty of little tips and tricks exist for saving money on your food budget without starving yourself or your family. Check out a few ideas to put into practice. Check Grocery Ads Take a look at the week’s grocery ads before…
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Tips For Improving Your Daughter’s Self-Esteem, Part 2
Welcome to Part Two of this article! Use it to help you raise an incredibly confident, amazing daughter who will rule the world. Ensure She’s Media-Literate Watch television and movies with your daughter, and talk about how women are portrayed. Are the women strong and powerful? Meek? Nagging harpies who constantly say disparaging things to…
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How To Establish A Baby Bedtime Routine
Many advantages come with establishing a bedtime routine for your baby. You’ll save time, improve morning and evening planning, teach your baby that bedtime is “big sleep” time, and more. Establishing a bedtime routine can easily result in your baby falling right to sleep the minute it is placed in the crib, allowing you to…
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5 Mom-Kid “Fun Day” Ideas
Desperate for more mom-kid “fun day” ideas? Such excursions give you the opportunity to connect and bond with your younglings one-on-one. Check out the following ideas and get inspired! Play Find a child-friendly play happening in your area and take one of your kids to a performance. This is an especially fun “date” if the…
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Tech Tips That Make Home Life Organization Easier
Kids tend to make life a wee bit chaotic. This is part of the fun of having them, however if you feel like your life is increasingly out of control, take advantage of technological innovations to get a handle the chaos. Use the following ideas to enjoy a more organized home life: Make Checklists–With The…
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6 Tips For Protecting Your Daughter’s Heart
Whether your daughter is an adolescent, tween, or teen, it is important to look after the most sensitive part of her: her heart. Being a woman in today’s world is hardly easy, making it very necessary to be the most positive influence in her life. Use the following tips to ensure your daughter grows up…
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Fun Backyard Projects With Dad
Help your kids have an amazing time with their dad by suggesting one awesome backyard project after another. Most aren’t exactly weather-proof, but provide hours of entertainment for your kids…and the kid inside your husband. Check out the following ideas for the kids and dad (and you). Cardboard Maze Have an assortment of cardboard boxes…
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4 Tips For Dealing With Bad Behavior
Unfortunately, many parents make the mistake of responding to bad behavior. Rather than adding yourself to this less-than-awesome list, learn to deal with not-great behavior in a positive way that ultimately teaches your kids to behave in the future. It might be difficult at times, but it is definitely worth the effort. Check out a…
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Tips For Improving Your Daughter’s Self-Esteem, Part 1
Want to ensure your daughter grows up to be a strong, confident adult? Of course you do. Example is one of the main ways you do this, however plenty of other tips and tricks exist for ensuring your female spawn grows up to be the powerful woman you want her to be. Check out a…
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5 Tips For Raising Boys As Gentlemen
Raise your boys to be gentlemen! The world always needs a few good men, so doing your part certainly helps. Keep the following tips in mind and enjoy watching your boys become the gentlemen you know they can be! Listen Emphasize the importance of listening to your sons. Let them know they need to listen…
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Morning Routine Tips For Work-From-Home Moms
Working from home while juggling motherhood is a challenge for any woman, with mornings especially hectic. You’re waking the kids for school, ensuring they have everything they need for that day and aren’t dressed like clown rejects, feeding them, making lunches, not to mention answering emails and starting your own work day. Help from your…
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Let Go Of These Bad Parenting Habits
Are you guilty of bad parenting habits? No parent is perfect, and everyone makes a mistake every now and then. However, making bad parenting a habit…well, it’s not going to do you or your kids any favors. Review the following bad parenting habits to let go of right meow, er, now: Tech Addictions Do you…
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How To Enjoy Successful Shopping Days With The Kids
Getting ready for another shopping session with the kids? Make sure this one goes well with a little pre-planning. There’s plenty of things to do before you leave the house that ensure errand success…and prevent you from having a midday meltdown. Check out what to do and enjoy a much more streamlined experience: Pre-Pack Your…
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Tips For Throwing The Perfect Family Playdate
Want to throw a family playdate event everyone will talk about for the next few weeks? Of course you do! Use the following tips and tricks to ensure your upcoming playdate event is a huge success: Numerous Activities Prevent boredom from occurring during your playdate event by offering a wide variety of activities. Provide indoor…
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7 Diaper Bag Hacks You Need To Know About
Make parenting a little easier by getting the diaper bag situation down pat. There’s numerous diaper bag hacks out there, all of which are designed to get you out the door that much sooner. Check out a mere few and breathe a sigh of relief: The Bag In terms of the bag itself, make sure…
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7 Fantastic Birthday Books
Birthday books are fun ways to get your children excited about their birthdays…and reading in general. If one of your little ‘uns has a birthday coming up, review the following books and perhaps select one or two for pre-bedtime reading: Big Birthday Big Birthday by Kate Hosford is a lovely story about a young girl…
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6 Home Organization Tips From Real Moms
Maintaining a clean, organized home often seems like a pointless, thankless task when you have children. Yet there is light at the end of the home organization tunnel, as there’s lots of little things you can do to prevent your house from looking like several bombs hit it. Use the following tips from real moms…
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5 Active Play Activities To Try With Your Baby
Babies are active little humans, and rightfully so! They’re attempting to explore the very-new world around them, so help them out with activities ideal for active babies. They’re simple and give your baby exactly what’s needed in regards to active play. Head Turning Try this activity when your baby is on her back. Jingle keys…
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5 Time-Out Alternatives
Are time-outs not working with your children, or not as effective as you’d like them to be? Rather than feeling as though the situation is hopeless (which it definitely isn’t!), avoid continual power struggles and try any or all of the following time-out alternatives. Ignoring your children, taking things away, and putting them in the…
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5 Monster Books For Kids
Monster books for kids are fun options for not only getting your child excited about reading, but helping him or her get over any “monster under the bed”-related fears. Check out the following excellent monster books and enjoy spending time reading with your little ‘un: Monster Mess Monster Mess is a goofy rhyming book by…
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6 Ways To Distract A Toddler
Toddlers get into anything and everything when left unsupervised, even if for a few seconds or minutes. Deal with this effectively by finding new and inventive ways to distract your toddler at any given interval. It’s possible to survive ‘toddler time,’ or when these new humans have learned to walk and are curious about the…
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7 More Parenting Hacks
Since there’s no such thing as too many parenting hacks, use the following to help you navigate the strange and wonderful world of parenthood. There’s tons of little tips and tricks that make life as a parent easier! Ice Cream Assistance Do your little ‘uns get ice cream all over the darn place whenever they…
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Teaching Children To Listen: 8 Tips
Want to ensure your toddler always listens to you? Teaching the child to listen to you now sets the foundation for the coming years, and helps ensure you have a well-behaved kid who actually does what you say. Use the following tips and tricks to raise a youngling who respects your word: Talk At Eye-Level…
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7 Indoor Activities For Toddlers
Keep your toddler entertained when stuck inside, whether due to weather or any other reason. A bored toddler is a rambunctious toddler, so sidestep disaster with a series of awesome activities. Your little ‘un will be super-tired by the end of the day! Foil Crown Activity Turn your youngling into a prince or princess by…
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9 Outstanding Home Organization Tips
Maintaining an organized home doesn’t have to be a constant struggle. There’s plenty of little hacks and tricks that make keeping a clutter-free house very possible! Check out the following tips and enjoy a much more organized household that doesn’t include daily complaints about where your keys are: Drawer Organizers Avoid mystery drawers full of…
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Real Potty Training Tips You Can Use
It’s very possible to make potty training a streamlined process so long as you’re patient and use the right tips. Get through this essential training period using the following advice and give yourself a lil pat on the back when it’s over: Early Is Best Place the training potty in your bathroom long before your…
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Tricks For Teaching Kids To Do Laundry
Teaching your kids to do their own laundry: it IS possible! Get them used to doing laundry from an early age and help foster responsibility among other good stuff. Review the following tips and enjoy a more functional household in regards to chores: Laminated Instructions Make it easy for children and teens to do…
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Funny Books Your Kids Should Read
Make your kids laugh and teach them about the value of a good gaffaw with assorted funny books for children. There’s plenty to pick from and all (or at least most) will have your younglings rolling in the proverbial aisles. I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More This book by Karen Beaumont is an entertaining option…
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Kiddie Birthday Ideas When You’re Out Of Time And Energy
Is your child’s birthday coming up, but you’re sapped of energy? Low on funds? Out of time? Fear not. There’s plenty of last-minute, low-cost birthday ideas that won’t cause you to collapse from exhaustion. Review the following options and ensure your child’s birthday is a rockin’ good time: Special Night Out Allow your child to…