Tag: growing up

Let’em Fail: Why Letting Your Kids Stumble is Necessary

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Catching your child before they fall begins with the toddler age when they are just learning how to walk. The baby gates are up, the...

How To Foster Sibling Love

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Siblings fight. That’s just what they do. When put in close quarters, they fight for attention, to be heard at the dinner table, and...

But How Do I Know if This Is Right?

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One thing I have learned in my eleven years as a mother and six years as a mother of three is that decisions are...

Modest Is Hottest

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Modest clothing for kids has been all over my feed recently. A mom went viral after shopping for dresses for her seven—and ten-year-old girls....

Not All Skinfluencers Glow: On Saying No to Tween Skincare

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We were shopping for a back-to-school outfit at an outdoor mall last August when I first noticed my ten-year-old daughter eying Sephora from across...

What to Look Forward to in the Teen Years

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Mood swings, self-confidence, sass, peer pressure, distancing, and independence-seeking. What is the common denominator? The teen years. In our second year of raising a teen,...

I Am Tired

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I am an Aries. I am determined, ambitious, high-energy, yet easygoing. But mostly, I’m an impulsive “yes” girl. In my life at home, as...

Play Time: The Last Mile

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As anyone with kids knows, changes can come slowly, and changes can come fast. Suddenly, your child grows assertive and refuses pants. Suddenly, there is...

My Baby is Going to Kindergarten

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Sitting here, sipping on my iced coffee, I am overwhelmed with a whirlwind of emotions. You see, I registered my youngest child for kindergarten...

My Six-Year-Old Is Not Getting a Stanley

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The trendy thing, the hot new item, the status symbol. These are not new concepts. Millennials had the white Louis Vuitton shoulder bag (fake from...