Parenting Wisdom

Aaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh!!! Flipping flickers! I called them woodpeckers until my husband corrected me. He took a semester of ornithology in college, so I’ll defer to him on this one. The difference, as far as I am concerned? Flickers essentially are GIANT woodpeckers. And they...

I’ve taught my kids to say they are sorry when something happens.  But it wasn’t until I had to start explaining why we apologize that I started to understand the value and power of an apology in healing wounds...

I remember when my mom friends started talking about “Elf on a Shelf.” Or maybe I had started noticing posts on Facebook. The cute pictures of elves doing silly things such as zip-lining from Christmas trees. Parents were abuzz...

Summer is my favorite time. I don't do camps. I don't want to shuffle kids to and from places anymore. I did that for an entire school year and once summer hits, I am done being the mommy cab....

  Chickens can be intimidating creatures. They certainly aren't considered "pets" because the last thing they want is to be held by a child. However, my kids treat them like their pets. The girls check on them everyday, collect their...

To be a best friend, to have a best friend, what does that actually mean? As a mother, wife, career woman, do we still need a best friend? So much weight has always been attached to those two words....

Dear “Older Moms," who have made it through the phase of mothering littles... I need you, please help. Don’t get me wrong. I am so blessed to have a “mom squad,” a group of strong women whom I have known since...

Today, my son did the laundry.  I didn’t ask him to do it.  It wasn’t on his list of chores to do. I just came home from grocery shopping to find the three baskets of clothes I’d washed this...

My family loves a good road trip! From the time my kids were little, we’ve been hitting the roads to see the sights and visit family. We are also a military family and find ourselves moving (usually cross-country) about...

New parents receive a lot of advice. Not only is the amount of advice we receive overwhelming, but a lot of it sounds like this: “Follow a strict schedule, that worked for us!”  “Just go with the flow, we had no...