Parenting

Circle of Moms / Kia Video Series: Helicopter Parenting, Co-Sleeping, & Pajama Glamming When at a park or while waiting to pick your child up from school or some activity, have you ever found yourself kind of eavesdropping on conversations that other moms ...
Oh, No – Here It Comes Again! A Baby’s Worst Nightmare – Me! Why a Baby or Babies Cry – Me… The other day, I took my daughter to go ice skating with some friends. One of the other moms also brought her baby ...
Giving the Gift of Education w/ ScholarShare #CASaves4College 53 percent said they are “very concerned” about their ability to pay for their children’s higher education. But just 43 percent of parents have a college savings ...
I Can Relate All Too Well… #WW This Hallmark card gives me flashbacks of my daughter singing that song when she was 6 years old on our Wii karaoke game…when company was over…
Childproofing the Dog House #WW What’s funnier than my daughter being in the dog crate? The fact that SHE locked it and couldn’t get out! Bwahahaha! Before I helped her, I had to get some ...
Passing on a Love of Theatre The first live musical I remember attending was “Phantom of the Opera” when it was on tour in Los Angeles, CA many years ago (I was probably around 13 or ...
Nurturing Appreciation People have often told me how impressed they were to have received a hand-written, personal ‘thank you’ card from my daughter. My child is not just naturally appreciative and this, ...
Potty Surprise The other day I saw something that I had never seen before. It seemed so interesting and so clever that I was momentarily in awe. I was waiting in the car ...
Their Own Cell Phone – When? Do you have a tween and/or teen? Have you been debating whether or not to give them their own cell phone? Check out the article I wrote for Tammy’s Two Cents, ...
No, You’re Not Weird This is my first post as a writer for 5 Minutes for Parenting, a sister site to the well-known 5 Minutes for Mom. For this post I was asked to ...
Try and Try Again – Getting Kids to Eat I must have the only kid in the world that does not like spaghetti. It seems that it is on every children’s menu and the favorite of so many. My ...
Don’t Fret the Sweat What’s that smell? You nervously, but inconspicuously, smell yourself. That’s not it. So you try to follow the odor around where you are and where does it lead you? To your child! ...
How Come No One Warned Me About The Awful Eights??!! Sure, you’ve heard of the ‘terrible twos’ that maybe even got worse when they reached three. But did anyone ever tell you that ages 4-7 is just the quiet before ...
Parent-approved Kid Shows You do not need to spend money on cable to have quality children’s programming. Qubo and PBS Kids have some really wonderful shows that are educational AND enjoyable. ...