10 Safe Phone Alternatives for Kids
Middle school is the rule in our home. When you go to middle school, you can have a cell phone. Not a moment before, and we will have full and complete access to your phone…
10 Tips to Get the Most out of a Small Garden
10 tips to get the most out of a small garden As a gardener, it can be very frustrating when you have great ideas on the plants, herbs, and flowers you want to grow but…
20 Tips For Raising Money-Smart Children
Kids are, like they saying goes, little broke best friends who think you are wealthy. Our kids certainly have no problem sending us links, filling their online carts and asking us to click the order…
21 Awesome Fundraising Ideas for Kids
“I’ll write you a check, but don’t ask me for my time,” is what I said to our oldest daughter’s Assistant Principal when we met the summer before she entered high school. I already serve…
20 Signs You Need to Send Your Child to a Boot Camp for Teens
Boarding school. Boot camp. Parents joke about sending their teens to one or the other – or both – when they’re acting up, and then we all laugh about it. My parents joked with me…
20 Awesome Outdoor Toys for Kids That Bring Endless Fun
“I’m just an outside boy,” my son (now eight) said to my husband and I years ago on he and his twin sister’s fifth birthday. Their grandmother gifted them many things, but among them was…
20 Ways to Get Your Kids to Behave in a Restaurant
Kids ruin everything. I say it (mostly jokingly) all the time. Kids are the light of our lives, yet they are also the darkness that descends upon a good time in a matter of seconds…
20 Things to Do on a Car Trip With a Teenager
Road trips…yuck. Car trips…also yuck. There is nothing worse than traveling in a vehicle for more than two hours, yet my husband insists any travel destination we can reach by car in under 8 hours…
20 Delicious Gluten-Free Baking Ideas
Until the year 2017, I didn’t know a thing about gluten-free living. No one in my family – immediate or extended – suffers from celiac disease or any gluten sensitivities, nor do they choose the…
