Posted April 13, 2021
This is a guest post written by Sean Stark , a personal safety expert (check out his full bio at the end) who I connected with via Instagram a few years ago. NOTE: Understand that some of the topics I’m going to talk about today might be triggering for you… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted February 23, 2021
It’s a cold hard truth of parenting, eventually, at some point, you’re going to miss something. And no, I don’t mean missing a game or school assembly (though that is going to happen too). I mean miss something that your thought for sure you already knew about. Something you’ve talked… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted January 12, 2021
Have the hard conversations. It’s awkward. It’s cringe-worthy. It’s terrible and miserable…but have the hard conversations. Because here’s the deal, if your kids don’t hear it from you, they are going to hear it from someone else. And who knows what message they will receive? I’m talking about everything from… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted December 4, 2020
Ahh, budget and gifts…two words that couldn’t be harder to put together. Or is it just me? As we officially begin the holiday season I have lots of people ask me how we do Christmas in our family. After all, with 5 kids it has the potential to both break… Read More »
Categories: Life As It Happens, Parenting
Posted November 13, 2020
“I can’t fix this.” I looked over at my 14-year-old son the other day and had to say something that broke my heart. “I can’t fix this, I can’t make this better, and I can’t do this for you.” Several weeks ago he broke his arm, and now has two… Read More »
Categories: Health and Wellness, Life As It Happens, Parenting
