20 Things You Should Stop Doing For Your Teenager
Unpopular Opinion: You don’t need to stop doing anything for your teenager that you don’t want to stop doing. I’m not talking about the important things, such as continuing to treat them like a baby…
A Parent’s Guide to Baby Monitor Sleep Settings
Parents will do just about anything for a few extra hours or even minutes of sleep at night. Gadgets like baby monitors? Lifesavers. Some folks even go the extra mile with a fancy video baby…
20 Awesome Ice Breaker Questions for Kids
Confession: I am super awkward around kids. I say the F word a lot. Sometimes, I don’t know what to say. I don’t have a lot in common with them. Yet, here I am, the…
The Benefits of Sweating and Exercises To Help You Stay Healthy
There are many benefits of sweating and a variety of different exercises to help you stay healthy. Sweating is a way that our body regulates its own temperature. When we exercise or do a lot…
What is the Ferber Method and Should You Bother?
Ahhh…sleep. It’s a glorious thing, yet many of us get nowhere near enough. WebMD provides a comprehensive list of how much sleep people need by age (I, personally, require 8 hours of sleep every night…
20 Things Parents Should Never Say to Their Teenager
“I’m a cool mom, sweetheart,” may or may not be a repeat phrase in our household. Rest assured, however, that it always elicits a slightly raised eyebrow from our teenage daughter and a not-so-subtle side-eye…
Family Movie Night Movies and Homemade Snacks for Movie Night
We’ve been in kind of a slump with it comes to choosing family movie night movies. We have some of our favorite homemade snacks for movie nights, but we’ve been through so many different movies…
Earn Your Screen Time Free Printable
As the kids get older I have a harder time getting them motivated to do their chores. We recently moved over to the earn your screen time method to help motivate and encourage them to…
10 Parenting Newsletters You Should Consider Reading
Spoiler Alert: There are no parenting hacks that make parenting easier. Sure, there are parenting hacks that make certain aspects of parenting easier for some families, but there is no one-size-fits-all parenting handbook, hack, or…
