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Want more quality time with your kids? Here are 30 days of simple ideas
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Want more quality time with your kids? Here are 30 days of simple ideas

We all worry about whether we spend enough time with our kids.

On the phone with my mom one night, she said to me:

“You’re such a good mom. You spend so much time with your kids. I never did with that you.”

My mom worked as an administrative assistant at the hospital 4 miles down the road. Every night, she came home around 5:30pm, cooked dinner and then we all relaxed while watching Murphy Brown or Friends.

Truth is: I thought she spent enough time with me.

I felt pretty happy and content.

And frankly, I feel like a failure with this whole mom business.

The Simple Activity to Teach Social Skills that your kids will beg for
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The Simple Activity to Teach Social Skills that your kids will beg for

“No, sweetie, that hurts.”

My five-year-old son puts down the flashlight. His latest game involves shining the flashlight on opposite walls of our living room and having our very crazy pup chase it.

However, she gets a little too excited and ends up jumping on me – all sixty pounds of her.

At five, my son improves everyday at realizing that his actions have consequences.

He learned this by constantly making mistakes and getting corrected.

Stories are also a fantastic way to teach those skills.

The way you’re trying to lose weight is wrong
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The way you’re trying to lose weight is wrong

Being uncomfortable in your own body is the worst.

You deny invites to parties.

Start avoiding any reflective windows or mirrors.

And just want to wallow in your stretchy, comfort workout clothes all day.

So you start trying all the things…

ALL the weight loss plans and programs out there. Sure, it works as first but then as soon as you stop, you GAIN ALL THE WEIGHT BACK.

With all those setbacks, you start feeling like you can’t do it

I was there 2 weeks ago.

But then, THEN…

Had enough of your kids fighting? 1 hack that will make them stop
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Had enough of your kids fighting? 1 hack that will make them stop

You know you need to change something with your kid’s behavior.

Maybe your kids are fighting.

Perhaps you want them to be kinder.

Or maybe, you just want them to pick up all the LEGO’s off the floor after playing so you don’t have to experience one between your toes again.

Whatever it is a simple reward system might do the trick.

Are My Kids Spoiled? 3 Signs of Entitled Behavior (and what you can do!)
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Are My Kids Spoiled? 3 Signs of Entitled Behavior (and what you can do!)

Walking past the Disney store, I see a kid in mid-breakdown.

Her face is red, her eyes are wet.

The woman -I can only assume is her mom – stands above her and repeats, “No, you can’t get a toy from the Disney store.”

“WHY?!?,” the little girl screams, “WHY! It’s not fair! You said we could. It’s not fair!!”

Is this little girl spoiled?