Tag: family
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Help Your Kids Sleep Tight Before School Starts
*Help Your Kids Sleep Tight Before School Starts is a guest post. If you are interested in writing for A Modern Mom’s Life, please visit my Guest Posting page.* During the summer, it’s easy to forget how hard youngsters have it these days. They spend upwards of seven hours a day in school, and that’s followed…
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5 Ways Being A Bad Mom Makes Me A Good Parent
Tell me I’m not the only out there who sometimes feels like a bad mom. Sometimes I have no idea what I’m doing as a parent, and I make decisions based on what needs to be done in-the-moment. Sure, maybe that’s not the best thing long term, but often I just need to get some…
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7 Easy Back To School Tips From A Working Mom
My life as a working mom doesn’t change much from school year to summer, and back again. My girls are now seven and (almost) 10. We still get up routinely, get out the door, collect the kids after camp, and make dinner after long days at work. But I still have a few back-to-school tips…
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Parks Canada oTENTik: What It Is, & Why You Should Visit One
This summer we decided to make our summer vacation a camping trip. I had never been camping as a mom (or even as an adult.) So when I started researching campgrounds and parks to visit I really didn’t know what I was looking for. Enter the Parks Canada oTENTik option. It’s a cross between a…
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Milestones We Love But Are Rarely Celebrated
As our children grow we celebrate so many milestones. But once they’ve begun to walk and talk, it seems the celebrating stops. I want to keep noticing, and talking about, the mini milestones that keep happening through our parenting lives. My daughters are much older now, but there are still little things that happen in…
