Tag: motherhood
Sweet Rewards: Using Positive Reinforcement to Encourage Positive Behavior
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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}
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.
Our family recently decided to sponsor a child through Compassion International. While my husband was at a concert, he picked up a packet for...