Tag: motherhood

Sweet Rewards: Using Positive Reinforcement to Encourage Positive Behavior

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Tantrums. Arguments. Meltdowns. Oh, the joys of having a 4 year-old daughter. Let's be honest, these are the realities we face when we have...

What’s Your Number?

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What’s Your Number? Is it 1? 2? 4? 9? Or even 20? My number is two:   that’s how many kiddos we decided to bring into our home sweet home. It wasn’t...

Adventures in Potty-Training: 5 Tips for Positive Success

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Potty training your kid is a personal endeavor, in every sense of the word. You might choose the 3-day method, or take a more...

Bittersweet Emotions

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Julia has been crawling backwards since she was about six months. It was two months of her rocking on all fours and inching the...

The Travel Bug

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How many of you are traveling this Memorial Day holiday weekend? To a neighbor’s house for a (soggy) barbeque?  Maybe to nearby cities to...

What ARE We thinking?

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The time comes in every parent’s life that he/she decides to do the unthinkable…take a road trip with a baby!  Whether it is long...

Confession: Pregnancy Scares Me

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 I'm not going to lie, I have always been a "scared" person. What I mean by that is, I am always waiting for the...

Take a Puzzle Day

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When I was a kid, there was a guy at our church named Poggy.  Yes, Poggy.  He was quite the character.  I will never...

GIVEAWAY: My Massage Hero {Closed}

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To all of you moms who have watched the giveaways for free massages and thought, "why can't I win that??", today is your lucky day!...

Teaching Generosity.

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Our family recently decided to sponsor a child through Compassion International.  While my husband was at a concert, he picked up a packet for...