Tag: parenting
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Could You Use A Little Parenting Help? (I Know I Could!)
As adults, we’re pretty awesome at a lot of things. We tackle big challenges in our careers, our finances, and our health. We build impressive things. We write legal documents. We manage teams and conferences and estates and classrooms. But when it comes to parenting, we often feel surprisingly unsure whether we know what we’re…
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Popcorn for Dinner (& Other Dinner Confessions)
As a working mom, the few hours between walking in the door and getting the kids into bed can by the most hectic. Followed closely by the morning routine where we usually only have an hour to get everyone up, fed, dressed, packed and out the door – winter and summer! But there’s something about…
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Why We Don’t Reward Chores
Personally, I hate doing chores. If someone paid me to do chores I don’t think it would make me any more likely to do them. Sadly, chores are a necessary, if annoying, part of life. Many families enlist things like chore charts, or other reward systems, to encourage children to do more chores. We used…
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Working Parents, School Aged Kids, & Summer Routines
School is almost over. Sadly, as a working parent, your routine doesn’t change just because summer arrives. Instead we have to find alternate care for our kiddos who go to school (and likely after school care of some sort) so we can continue to work and support our families. I went out into the digital…
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5 Ways to Thrive As Working Parents
In today’s economy many families with children have 2 working parents. This is becoming the new “normal.” Where in my family my dad was the sole wage earner while I was growing up, there is no way we – the family I’ve created with my husband – could live comfortably on only one income. “In…
