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Products, tips and more all about children and how to keep them happy and how I raise my three.
The Parental Community Needs to Realize Verbal Abuse HURTS
Children are and have always been important to me, think about it; children are our future. Why would we not rank them of high importance? Children are loving, honest and kind, born into this world with such a curiosity about the world around them and the ability to have no filter on their mouths. I [...]
I Dare you To Jump Off Top Bunk Bed
Each and every morning at my house goes something like this; Alarm finally wakes me, after dinging for 15 minutes. I hit snooze, multiple times. Ki comes in to wake me. Boys wake up and come in to my room demanding breakfast. Finally I drag my butt out of bed to get them ready for [...]
The Somewhat Perfect Blend of Two Parents
Watching my children run around outdoors, chasing each other smiling, I see many personality traits in each child that reflect my own self. The leadership qualities of my oldest, the anxiety and sensitivity in my middle child, and the loud mouth three year old. Each of my children have some part of a personality characteristic [...]
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National Learn to Swim Day, Get Ready for Memorial Day
Memorial Day is just around the corner and this is the most popular weekend for families to get out camping and go swimming in ponds or their newly opened pool. Our family loves spending time in the pool over in Vermont, at what I call our “family farm”, it’s where my Dad lives. National Learn [...]
Swimming Safety For Kids!
Long, chilly winters spent indoors drinking hot cocoa and burrowing under layers of blankets have a way of making even the most safety conscious moms and dads overlook a few important pool safety tidbits. Sure, everyone’s anxious to bask in the sun, dive into a pool or wade at the beach, but safety is the [...]
The Expenses of Parenting
Raising a child is an expensive endeavor. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the total cost of raising one child from birth to age 18 has risen by more than $60,000 in the past 10 years. That’s an increase of more than 40 percent, and those numbers are only expected to climb in [...]
My Son Will Not Live That Life
Ever since my five year old son was born I knew something was different about him, but I swore it was only because I felt not ready to be a mom. Honestly, I had zero interest in being a mother again but I was pregnant and about to have another child. I blamed myself for [...]
