Balancing Youth Sports and Family Life

Balancing Youth Sports and Family Life

Moms / Activities

Raising sports active kids is difficult, perhaps more today than ever before. Parents feel pressure to help their kids succeed. They want to keep up with other parents in an increasingly winner-take-all society. Too often, parents just like you feel that if they don’t do everything for their child, they…

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Easter Activities for Your Kids

Easter Activities for Your Kids

Moms / Mom Tips

Searching for some great ways to entertain your kids this Easter? Well, hop to it with these innovative ideas that are sure to stimulate your young ones. What’s Easter without an old-fashioned Easter egg hunt? Provide each participant with their own basket or bag. Opt for plastic eggs that you…

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Mix it Up: Teaching Kids about Diversity

Mix it Up: Teaching Kids about Diversity

Moms / Mom Tips

As much as we want to teach kids to be colorblind and oblivious to other people’s differences, kids are wired to notice when people don’t look, act or live the same way they do. Even babies can recognize physical differences in people when they’re shown pictures. But what they’re not…

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How to Advise Your Tween About Gossip

How to Advise Your Tween About Gossip

Moms / Mom Tips

If you have kids who are about to hit their teenage years, then you may have noticed an uptick in the chitchat, whether on the phone, online or when they have friends over. Girls in particular are eager to compare thoughts and experiences with their peers, while boys aren’t usually…

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Smart Ice Cream Choices

Smart Ice Cream Choices

Moms / Mom Tips

When it heats up outside, the siren song of the ice-cream man’s truck may be the only thing that gets the kids out of the air-conditioned house on the double. But if you’re worried about the fat, calories and sugar of those tasty treats, then the ice-cream man might be…

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Ten Tips to Tame Your Child’s Temper Tantrums

Ten Tips to Tame Your Child’s Temper Tantrums

Moms / Parenting

David’s mother explained, “Whenever David doesn’t get his way he throws himself on the floor, screams, kicks and cries incessantly. What can we do to help him overcome this behavior?” TIP: What is David getting out of this behavior? First make sure that you are not rewarding this type of…

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How to Succeed as a Stay-at-Home Mom

How to Succeed as a Stay-at-Home Mom

Moms / Mom Time

Stay-at-home moms are no longer just the co-stars from Leave It To Beaver, The Brady Bunch, and other television shows from a bygone era. Taking care of the kids has become the cool thing to do again for women in their 20s and 30s. According to the U.S. Census Bureau,…

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Household Safety Hazards

Household Safety Hazards

Moms / Mom Tips

You’ve got the house babyproofed with all the gadgets and preventive tools that should keep young kids out of the dangerous areas of your home. No worries, right? Wrong. There are hidden hazards in the home that can do serious damage to a child. Be extra-careful and warn children of…

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Dive into Pool Safety

Dive into Pool Safety

Moms / Mom Tips

Who says there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues? You’ll be hard-pressed to find a child who doesn’t enjoy spending time by the pool. For most families, it’s the highlight of the summer — both fun and affordable. While it’s great that you and your children are looking forward…

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