Welcome to our Parenting page. Enjoy motherhood advice on navigating children’s various ages and stages, tips for education, and ideas for home management. This list highlights our most popular posts, or scroll down for the most recent tips.
Saying Yes – A Parenting ExperimentI don't like disciplining my kids. I do it, of course. As parents we need to set limits, boundaries, and teach our kids. But that doesn't mean I like it. That means I say "no" a lot. Or otherwise use a negative phrase when I need to get…
Gardening Tips for Beginners#gno information! • #gno featured • parenting • home management
Whether you have a green thumb or not, these helpful gardening tips for beginners will get you on your way to growing a great fruit and vegetable garden this year. Getting Started: How to Grow Vegetables From Seeds or From Plants
Child Development: 9 Ways to Help Kids Learn to Manage AngerJust as adults need to develop and refine their communication skills, kids need to be taught effective and healthy ways to share their feelings, process emotions, and get across their points. Diagnosing Anger-Management Issues in Children When my 11-year-old son was 6 years old, I started noticing…
6 Ways to Stop Bullying and Spread Kindnessgiveaways! • parenting • ages and stages
Have you ever witnessed cyber-bullying? As a parent, have you had anti-bullying conversations with your children? Identifying ways to stop bullying on the spot isn't easy. That's why teaching children to choose kindness is critical. Through our partnership with Google, we have learned awesome parenting tips to prevent cyber bullying. …
Communication With Kids: How to Address Tragic EventsWhen traumatic events occur in our world or our town, our inclination might be to limit communication with kids and keep them naive and protected from the tragedies and violence that occurs around them. However, it is often difficult to prevent these stories from reaching our children’s ears. Our main…
Three Blessings of Parenting With an Age Gapcontests • relationships • ages and stages
When I was dreaming of my future family, I had a picture much like the family I grew up in. My brother and I are twenty months apart. We grew up playing together. We were very close and shared neighborhood friends. I pictured the same exact scenario for me. Fast…
