Dear Teachers, Thank You For Loving Our Kids as Your Own
When you leave your kids with someone for many hours a day, you want to make sure he or she is a kind and loving person. You want to make sure that…
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Emily Scott
If It’s Been a Tough Year, Know You’re Not Alone
This was supposed to be an amazing year. It began with an optimistic to-do list and lots of achievable goals. We were going to get so much…
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Learning to Live With the Scars of Grief
Life moves on. As well it should. But for your friend dealing with the grief of a miscarriage, or failed marriage, or loss of a family member, life…
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Why I Want My Kids To Make Mistakes
Our two oldest kids are like night and day. Sometimes I wonder how they can be related. Child #1 is easy-going. She rarely gets into trouble and…
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Dear New Mom Me, Try to Relax
As our oldest child’s birthday nears closer I find myself looking back at pictures from her birth. I see the young, new mom in the pictures who is…
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One Day, I’ll Wash The Last Onesie. Today, I’ll Be Grateful.
About a year and a half ago, our washing machine flooded the laundry room. I was rushing out the door to get our kids to swimming lessons and walked…
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A Mom’s Letter to Santa
Dear Santa, You can expect letters from our children any day now. They have known what they wanted to ask you for since July. So that makes my job a…
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Raising Kids to be Kind and Strong
My name is Emily, and I am a people pleaser. Until I had a daughter who looked up to and mimicked me, I never saw the problem with this. But when I…
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Homework is Not our Afternoon Priority
Homework. I’m sure many parents have a love-hate relationship with it. Or even more of a hate-relationship with it. Our daughter has her first year…
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Calming the School Morning Rush
Another morning of begging our kindergartener and our preschooler to eat something before school. Another morning of rushing to get dressed. Another…
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