By Jordan Harrell You Are Not Ruining Your Child’s Christmas Experience
Two-thirds of the lights on our Christmas tree don’t light up. It’s also leaning a bit to the right. My…
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By Cathy Tobin 10 Very Montessori Gifts to Give Your Children This Christmas
Here are some ways that you can incorporate Montessori principles into your family’s celebration of the Christmas season. These are…
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By Amy Weatherly Parenting is Kind of Like That
You know that feeling you get on Sunday evening? The kind of sinking feeling when the sun starts to fade…
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By Sara Ohlin Nine Easy Ideas For a Family Advent Calendar
Every year growing up we had an Advent calendar. It was one my mom made with a green and red,…
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By Her View From Home I Hate Play Dates But I Show Up Anyway
There are so many parts of parenting I love, but play dates aren't one of them. Mama friend, I hope you…
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By Brea Schmidt “I Wish We Weren’t Always Hurrying, Mom.”
My girl LOVES Kindergarten. Loves. It. She has friendly classmates, an incredible teacher . . . and an adorable love…
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Can We Please Be Done With the Myth of the Perfect Family?
My husband and I didn’t find out the gender of either of our girls before they were born. We reasoned…
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By Esther Vandersluis There’s No ‘Right’ Way to Feed a Baby
I feed my baby from a tube with a syringe. Sometimes. And sometimes I feed her from a bottle. I…
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By Brandi Jarrett The Beauty of the Tween Years
If you have daughters, you’ve probably been given lots of advice about how to handle the adolescent years. From the…
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By Becky Weigel My Son is More Than His Labels
Sometimes I want to scream. Sometimes it is at my son and others it is to the world, "You really…
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By Shelley Skuster Four Simple Words That Made Me Weep After My Son’s Birth
As quickly as my contractions pierce across my belly, they end. The moan-wrenching pain of childbirth is over, and my…
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By Angela Anagnost-Repke I Want to Raise a Mini-Me . . . But Should I?
My daughter twirled in her pink tutu. Her lopsided pigtails swayed as she whirled. She stopped to gaze in the…
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