Hands down this is the BEST Christmas tradition that I have found and we have many! Our family celebrates St. Nicholas Day each year on December 6th and each year our family is given a nice, hardcover book. This is a Christmas tradition that can be started at any time, there is no reason that […]
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I wanted them to remember this sudden, unexpected time as something fun. And that is where the idea of having a kid’s quarantine dinner party came from.
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When I was seven, the week after my First Communion, my mom moved out, my siblings were 4 and 6. My parents soon divorced and after a brief summer of living with my Mom, all three kids eventually lived with my Dad. He never remarried and was a single parent from that point forward. Mom
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54. When John first died, I kept repeating the number 54. That was how many years I had to go to keep the kids healthy, moderately happy, and have them graduate high school.
Do the age recommendations on games, apps, and websites matter? At what age should we allow our kids to use the technology they desire?
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A Dayton Dragon’s baseball game is the perfect day date with kids! From interactive activities between each inning and a chance to run the bases after the game, everyone walked away with smiles!
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Keeping Christmas traditions alive after the death of a parent. How ‘Night Tree’ was used as a St. Nick gift to remember a lost parent.
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Helping kids handle grief. A guide from the trenches. Practical tips to help kids make it through the day.
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A real life, unsponsored review of Disney Circle, a filtering device in an environment with multiple devices and multiple children.
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Flashback to New Year’s Day 2018. I decided that this would be the year that I would really truly document our family. I knew that the kids were growing and changing before our eyes. Oftentimes, after the kids went to bed John and I would sit up, watch bad tv, and talk about how much
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