Your kids. You love them. You'd do anything for them. You want to protect them. How does that relate to social media consumption? But in a world where adults don't even know which way is up, in a world where we don't know how...
"How long did it take us to make friends in South Carolina?" my six-year-old son asked.  We were in the car. I glanced at him in the rearview mirror and knew why he was asking. We had lived in Omaha...
The week of March 15th was rough for me.  I had been following the news of the coronavirus spread around China, South Korea, Washington, and then like a bad movie; it came to my town.  This week was the...
I'm not an educator. I'm a writer and a stay-at-home mom who wears many hats. And now, like many of you, I have added a new job title to the resume: homeschooler. Okay, I'm more the enforcer of the block...
I have a picky eater. He will eat hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, fruit, milk, and anything sweet. I have struggled to get him to eat more variety since he was a toddler. He's still picky, but I have developed...
They are in all of our homes. I bet you are using one right now to read this. We have a love/hate relationship with them. We crave them, desire them, and get addicted to them. That’s right. I’m talking...
As moms, we often fret about what other people think. And it's always a worst-case scenario. What they think of how we are speaking to our children, what we chose to wear that day, whether or not our hair is...
I took my horse and pony show to Walmart today. It was the end of Christmas break. Everyone was exhausted from traveling, experiencing a severe sugar crash, and no one really wanted to spend the morning grocery shopping. By...
You probably have the same puzzled look on your face as I do reading this . . . there is such an event as "National Bake For Family Fun Month?!" You got that right . . . Bake for Family Fun...
I called my mother today. It was urgent. Dire. I needed to tell her something so important, it couldn’t wait. “Thank you, mom.” I’m 37. It’s finally safe to admit nearly two and a half decades later that my mom was...

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