Parenting

Custom washable name labels are the perfect solution to keep kids from loosing items at school.

A simple chore chart system that works! Download the free printable blank chore chart to get your kids to work!

This December our family is following along with the mormon.org #LightTheWorld advent acts of service, last Friday we made a bigger effort to serve our neighbors by cooking and serving dinner at a local homeless shelter.  What does service look like to you? The truth is that there are as many ways to serve other …

This set of free school work organization printables are going to make your life so much easier! So. Many. Papers. You know what I’m talking about. It starts in preschool, if not a little before when you are just adoring your child’s first real “picture” with the brand new set of Crayola crayons recently purchased …

Bedtime. It’s like a magic word that makes parents feel a huge flood of relief and kids scream in unison “Noooo!”. Regardless of your feelings toward bedtime I think we can all agree that it’s a necessary and important part of daily life. Today I’m partnering with my friends at Children’s Mercy Hospital to bring …

I’m really good at planning healthy meals for my husband and I and I’m really bad at trying to get my kids to eat healthy food. I can’t be the only one who feels like it’s totally exhausting to fight with children over food, and yet I know it’s a fight worth fighting! For the past two …

This post is sponsored by Children’s Mercy Hospital I’ve been reading a lot about how to battle entitlement in children.  The answer I keep coming back to is that gratitude is the opposite of entitlement and we develop a strong sense of gratitude when we serve others. You may know that I am a part …

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone.#SimplyHealthy #CollectiveBias This whole parenting thing sometimes has me at a loss, at the end of the day I wonder am I doing enough? Are they going to know everything they should when they enter kindergarden? Are they going …

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and Playtex, but all my opinions are my own. #pmedia #RefreshYourNursery  http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV   There are many things in my life that are modern conveniences that I am SO grateful for, dishwasher anyone? I mean can you imagine living without a …

So I finally did this and it feel so good.  Let me tell you when your kid pees all over the floor at chick-fil-a and you don’t have a change of clothes in the car you feel a little desperate.  Yes you read that right my kid peed all over the floor in chick-fil-a, ug …

9 Fantastic Toddler toys your kids will love! This post contains affiliate links.  I had a friend text me around Christmas time to do a post on our favorite toys and I’m just now getting around to it. I have a love hate relationship with toys, I know they are essential, that my kids really …

Happy Monday friends, today in Kansas City its not even going to get out of the single digits and the “feels like” temperatures are so low its laughable (-25).  All of my good intentions to go to the gym today are way way out the window, you couldn’t pay me to leave my nice warm …