Category Archives: Parenting

Homemade gifts from the heart for all the people in your lives

The holiday season, regardless of which one of the many holidays you celebrate, can be a stressful (and costly!) time of the year.   For some, there is the cost of travel, for others it’s the stress and cost of hosting the holidays at their home.  And while everyone around you will say “The holiday’s […]

My 4 favorite Holiday traditions

Let’s face it.  The holidays are a perfect combination of stress and happiness.  Elf on the Shelf, Caroling, getting together with the extended family can be outweighed by winter storms, holiday traveling (or hosting), and money issues. Before I started my own family, the holidays were a little simpler.  I had grown up and was […]

5 words my toddler says that tests my sanity

When my son turned 2 years, his practitioner voiced some concern that he might be a little behind in his speech.  It was something I tried to keep in mind, that we needed to work more on those social skills, to cultivate his language, and most importantly, to encourage it.  He had a particularly effective […]

Little Readers: Ideas to help guide your children to love reading

I have always been an avid reader. As a child, both my parents read to me everynight.  I’m constantly reminded of this when my mother points at me and says “You better be reading to those kids everynight”.  As I grew, what I loved changed from dinosaurs, to Fear Street books, to books about talking animals, to fantasy.  Books were […]

When your child’s safety becomes less of a priority than how long summer break is.

“I’m sorry, when a child’s safety becomes less of a priority than how long summer break is or isn’t, then we have a problem…” states one concerned parent from Morill, Maine. As a parent, nothing is more important to me than my child’s safety.   Sure, I hate snow days just as much as the next […]