Stress is the enemy, not the kids 
It is all in your mindset. A few weeks ago I had a day that started off all wrong. We slept in a bit, and of course that threw our whole routine off. There is no such thing as rushing a 3 and 5 year old. The end result is that we watched the bus ...
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Getting ready for that first day of school
This is harder then expected. I thought that it would be easy to just pack my kid of to kindergarten for half a day. It is not like he has not been going to daycare for years. What is different about sending him to school? Why is it emotionally d...
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Finding 5 minutes to play with your kids
We are all good at finding reasons for why we cannot find time to play with our kids. There is never anytime to get everything we need to get done in the day let alone play. I personally find this to be my weakness as a parent. I can supervise wit...
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Ignoring is a wonderful tool when dealing with kids
Now please note that this is not ignoring a child but to praise positive behaviors and to not acknowledge negative behaviors that are not harmful. The idea is that if we give positive attention when children are doing what we see as being good we ar...
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What online games are safe to let our kids play?
I was reading a blog “Am I a bad dad for letting my kid use the headset in Xbox Live?” about a dad talking about the things being said to an 11 year old on Xbox. I thought it brought up a good point, what are adults and teenagers saying to our kids ...
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There is latex in what?
A friend of mine has an allergy to latex. Because of this I have found out that latex is in a lot of things most of us don’t even think about.
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Single Mom’s Fathers Day dilemma
So what do you do when you are a single Mom and Fathers day comes along? Things are fine if the Dad still has consistent positive contact with their kids. Unfortunately this is not always the case. I have several friends who are single Mothers hav...
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Balancing a Child’s safety with the need for free exploration: parenting past and present.
Balancing a child’s safety with the need for free explorations is handled differently today then it was in the past. Why, because each generation has learned from the mistakes of the last generation and technology has changed.
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Dealing with death and young children
When someone close to your family dies you have a lot to deal with. First you have your own grief. At the same time you need to be aware of how the death is affecting your child or children. How do you explain death to them? Do you let them say g...
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Why have the Sex talk with a five-year-old boy?
Very hard to do because they come up with the hardest questions.
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