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Positive Parenting: Nurturing Relationships

Positive Parenting: Nurturing Relationships

Melts In Your Heart, Not In Your Hands The other morning my 2 1/2-year-old came up to me and gave me a HUGE hug, looked into my eyes and with all seriousness asked me, “Mommy, do you know that I love you?” Of course my heart melted in that moment and he could have asked [...]

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Parenting By The Minute: A Savory Sunday

Sunday morning was positively glorious at our house this week.  The boys started the day by crawling in bed with me and giving me lots of sweet snuggles. We went downstairs and we cooked some waffles while Nora Jones sang sweetly in our ears.  While sitting in a sunbeam, I cradled a steaming cup of [...]

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Painting a Wall: A Parenting Experience | Parenting By The Minute

Painting a Wall: A Parenting Experience | Parenting By The Minute

A Parenting Masterpiece I’m a big fan of colored paint.  After a friend “converted” me to the world of color, white walls seem naked to me somehow. A can of paint is one of the quickest, cheapest ways to give a room an entirely new look and feel. A couple of the walls in our [...]

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Preserve Those Childhood Memories: No Scrapbooking Involved

Preserve Those Childhood Memories: No Scrapbooking Involved

One Minute Parenting Tip: Creating Your Own Memory Lane I want to share a little something special with you that I started doing for my kids before they were born.  It doesn’t involve glue, scissors, or all the fancy-shmancy tools I have in my scrapbooking closet. (Honestly, I haven’t scrapbooked since my second son was [...]

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Positive Parenting: A New Spin on “NO!”

Positive Parenting: A New Spin on “NO!”

As I was driving down the street the other day with my kids in the car,  my 2 1/2-year-old, Xander, piped up and said, “Mom I want to go get ice cream!” This wasn’t in my plans for the day, so I replied, “No, Honey.  Not today.” A few blocks down the street Xander said, [...]

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Why Were My Kids Were Watching a PG-13 Movie?

NOT Just Another Day in Daycare… The other day I dropped my kids off at the daycare at the gym so I could go to a Pilates class (it has taken me almost 5 years to get trust other people to watch my kids). After my class was over, I went back to pick up [...]

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Are You Raising a Willful Child?

Are You Raising a Willful Child?

This is one topic that gets a LOT of controversy.  The willful child.  The medical field even has a disorder name for it … Oppositional Defiant Disorder. But what if I told you it was GOOD not bad to raise willful children?  Would that qualify me for admission to a mental institution? Well, I’m going [...]

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Raising Kids: How Do You Keep Your Cool?

Raising Kids: How Do You Keep Your Cool?

One mom locks herself in her room. Why saying nothing can be more powerful than saying something in parenting.

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Lord of the Flies: The Next Generation

Lord of the Flies: The Next Generation

How do you teach a child about the deeper meaning of life in just 60 Seconds using only a fly swatter? Read this post to find out.

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Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem by Living in the Now

Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem by Living in the Now

How living in the now can build your child’s self-esteem.

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