Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are engaged. Even if you’ve seen an Indian wedding, you may have missed some elements. Here’s a quick primer. Read More
Indian Wedding Traditions Nick Jonas Needs To Know
Category Archives: Family
Be a Contestant in the Jim Henson Creature Challenge Live
Start building! You have 26 days to be a contestant on Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge Live! Read More
Call a Disney Friend for Free at Bedtime This Month
The Disney Store is offering a free hotline this month where your child can call one of five characters for a special bedtime message. Read More
The Paradox of Summer Screentime
It’s hard to enforce limits on your kids’ electronics time when you want to spend that much time on electronics too. Read More
Surprise Dad With Some Imagination or Some Culture This Father’s Day
Not sure what to get dad for Father’s Day? I have a couple of suggestions brought to you by Crate Joy. Read More
(I Wish I Knew) How to Parent an Extrovert
An introvert struggles to figure out what her young extrovert needs to socially grow. Read More
Start Preparing Now to Cancel Next Mother’s Day
The best Mother’s Day will be the day when we no longer need Mother’s Day. Read More
Mother’s Day: Not-So-Great Expectations
It’s Mother’s Day again. For those of you out there having a hard day for any one of a million reasons? I see you. I celebrate you. Read More
It’s Time to Update Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, and I have a few arguments about why we continue to celebrate a holiday that is meant to acknowledge someone in our lives that should be acknowledged every day. Read More
5 Tricks to Help You Introduce Your Kid to Their Hero
Meeting Austin St. John was overwhelming for my whole family, but for my 7-year-old, this was a chance to meet her hero. Since we only found out about his attendance at Awesome-Con with about sixteen hours to prepare, things got pretty frantic. This checklist helped us get ready for the event and have a great time introducing our daughter to her hero. Read More
Outrage Overload: Why I’ll Watch ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’
It’s tiring always trying to do the right thing. And while I won’t condone hurting others, it’s also not my place to judge everything and everyone always. So I will start by watching ‘Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ and appreciating it for the fictional escape from reality that it is. Read More
Get Yourself a Mindfulness Sponsor
A mindfulness sponsor is a good way to get your mindfulness practice started. Read More
Best Tabletop Games for Building a Relationship
Every now and then, we all need a reminder on how to build relationships with other people. And of course… Tabletop Games to the RESCUE!! Here are three favorites to teach you how to bring out the best in your relationships (and have a bit of fun doing so)! Read More
Dear Fans of Chief Wahoo
I’m trying to understand your point of view. Here’s what I’ve come up with. Read More
15th Annual Edible Book Festival In Cleveland
Books, puns, and baked goods. What’s not to love? Loganberry Books in the Larchmere neighborhood of Cleveland celebrated their 15th year of the Edible Book Festival this past weekend, and it was a delight. Read More
Open Letter to the People With The Misbehaving Kids at a Kids’ Place
Kids will be kids, and we who work with children understand that. Adults aren’t guilty for their kids’ kid-like behavior—but they are responsible for how THEY, the adults, react to it. Read More
Skunk Parenting
There are plenty of popular parenting styles out there–Helicopter parent, a Tiger mom , Free-range. Somehow, none of these metaphors quite fits a parenting style that is demanding yet lazy, fair-minded and respectful, and generally harmless. For that, I would like to introduce Skunk Parenting. Read More
Emotional Labor and the Executive-Dysfunctional Mom
A lot of moms don’t realize they have an executive function disorder like ADHD until their children are being diagnosed with one. Maybe it’s because motherhood makes it that much harder for our brains to function. Read More
Green Ideas for Fundraising and Community Building
Tired of the usual school fundraiser? Want to build community? Consider these Green Initiatives that have worked well for my kids’ Montessori school.
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Petite Pup Products From Petmate.com
Bakster Sullivan checks out some products that are just his size from Petmate.com. Read More
