A Lazy Parent’s Guide To Great Family Trips

Most advice for organizing family trips suggests that all you need is a flawless plan. Oh…and  a minute-by-minute risk assessment as well. “Civilized” parents plan. A lot. They schedule jokes

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How To Organize Kids Toys If You Don’t Want To Get Rid Of Them

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Talking To Children About Death Without Religion

“A coffin? Like, what vampires live in?” My six-year-old asks, as he watches his father and five other pall bearers remove a wooden casket from the funeral home

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5 Easy Ways to Show Kids How to Share

You’re in the middle of baking cookies. Your friend walks in and your partner says, “Give it to her. You have to share.” Would you? No. Not happily, anyway. Kids

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My Christmas Miracle: Why I Stopped Hating Our Elf-On-The-Shelf

A Christmas miracle occurred right inside the confines of my own grinchy self. (Ok, that’s dramatic. I’m not at all grinchy but I have nursed a long and

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7 Reasons It’s Okay Your Child Is “Strange”

Doctors aren’t always right. How could our daughter need a language specialist at 2 years old? A speech development delay? How could we have messed up a child

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5 Ways to Talk: Kids, Current Events, and Hatred

[thrive_headline_focus title=”Do you even want to turn that TV on anymore, or are the current events and hatred getting to you, too?” orientation=”left”] Talking to kids about current

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Survive Parenthood By Breaking All The Rules

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist”- Pablo Picasso To be honest, I’ve never been much of a rule breaker. Actually,

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