428: Is Tech Helping You as a Mom… or Quietly Controlling You? with Amanda Hess
How do our phones, apps, and digital tools quietly shape our experience of motherhood? We’re joined by Amanda Hess, writer at large for The New…
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Podcast Episode 210: Budgeting Secrets for Financial Success with Alison Baggerly
If you’re sick of living paycheck to paycheck, and the idea of budgeting makes you feel queasy, this episode is for you! We make budgeting not only easy, but something that you will actually look forward to doing!
Podcast Episode 66: How Your Money Blocks Are Holding You Back
Denise Duffield-Thomas shares with us the importance of identifying and facing your “money blocks” as well as the top 3 blocks women tend to have and how to work through them to find financial success!
Podcast Episode 005: How to be happy with your family budget
Do you think of budget as a bad word? Here are 4 tips on how to be happy with your family budget and teach your kids life skills while doing it!
One Simple Way to Develop Perseverance in Kids
It took me by surprise.
My daughter was in first grade at the time. She had just started to read books longer than simple sight word readers.
As she struggled through a particularly difficult part, her eyes filled with tears and she threw the book down.
“I CAN’T DO IT! I’M NEVER GOING TO READ!”
She ran to the couch and buried her head in the cushions,
“Sweetie! It’s OK”
“NO! I’m just not good at it. I can’t do it. I’m stupid.”
Oh, you know how that makes your heart sink as a parent.
And she refused to try. I asked her to look at it again and she wouldn’t.
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On Bed Rest? 10 Activities for You and Your Toddler
I am so honored to have my friend Jodie back again in this guest post! Read on to see how she’s coping with a back injury…