Ages + Stages

We have had a wonderful, long journey together. (17 months today to be exact.) Honestly, I didn’t ever think we would make it this long. My thought was by 12 months or so you would get bored with me and be ready to explore life on your own. But you still found a way to need me and so this nursing journey continued.

If you are a parent of a junior or senior, you know it’s scholarship application and letter of recommendation season. Students are overstressed, trying to pass classes, write powerful scholarship essays, and plan for graduation. For students, January-April can...

Since they were infants, my twins have spent their days being cared for by someone other than myself or my husband. Both my husband and I work outside the home, which means our boys are spending on average ten...

Three-year-olds are so...special, aren’t they? So many big emotions. In our house, it’s an unbelievable spectrum we live through each day. Here are 8 memes that pretty much sum up life with a threenager (just like a regular three-year-old, but...

I was vaguely familiar with autism growing up because my older brother was developmentally-delayed. However, the term autism wasn’t as common as it is in the current day. I got a job in college as a behavioral coach for...

I call my toddler a crumb-catcher. Wherever he goes, he somehow manages to spark one tornado of a mess to the other. As a third born, though, he has a severe case of FOMO…especially when it comes to cooking or...

Throughout my years as a speech-language pathologist working in a large public school system, I observed dozens of daycares around the Omaha metro. Every daycare was different, yet it was the same: the biggest area of frustration for daycare...

Potty training toddlers is not for the faint of heart. I’d rather go to the dentist every day for a month to get my teeth drilled, without Novacane, than attempt to potty train another toddler. There is nothing fun...

I have an almost 4-year-old and an almost 1-year-old, so I’m currently going to be in toddler-activity mode for quite some time. We try to vary the activities to keep things exciting, but here are 3 of my favorite...

It is kindergarten roundup season in our house! I will have two identical twin boys entering kindergarten this fall, and as a first-time mom of school-aged children, I am filled with anxiety and lots of questions. Generally speaking, kindergarten...