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Spending More Time with Your Children: A New Years Resolution You Can Keep
If you’re like many people, you’ve put spending time with your family at or near the top of your New Year’s resolution list. Now you’re wondering how you can possibly do it–you’re over-extended, overwhelmed, and exhausted most of the time. You mainly just want to get through what has to …
My Totally Reasonable New Year’s Resolutions
Every year, people with very good intentions sit down and type out a list of New Years resolutions, usually consisting of some lofty goals like “I will never touch fast food again” or “I will whip those saddle bags into shape” or “I will be a more patient parent.”
10 Ways To Survive Twin Toddlers (Or A Single Toddler)
People love to dole out advice when it comes to babies. Let them cry it out. Swaddle them tightly. Breast is best. But when it comes to toddlers? People get a pained look on their face, wish you luck and make a quick getaway. Surviving toddlerhood is a huge accomplishment. Surviving twin toddlerhood is akin…
Santa Has Some Consistency Issues…
There is one big problem with the awesome and much adored Santa. Mainly, that he is fictional.This becomes problematic because it means every family has a different Santa, which causes consistency issues.We’verun into this problem with the Tooth Fairy as well. I know a kid who gets $20 for every lost tooth. Short of banning said kid from my home, I had to do some expectation management with my little tooth …
My Family’s Chore List Meltdown
When I was growing up, my mother would leave me and my sisters a note with a list of jobs that she would want accomplished by the end of every day. It didn’t matter if it was a school day, a lazy day of summer or if a tornado was about to touch down, you read the note and did what you were told.