Stop the Insanity: How to Avoid Arguing with Your Teenager
When you become a parent, you learn about the care of feeding of the infant and child. You learn how to keep them on a schedule of eating, sleeping, and …
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Coronavirus TV Content Has Arrived
Have you noticed that after binge-watching everything you had been wanting to the past year, that your regular shows haven’t made the comeback you were waiting for? As the realities …
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Great Ways to Put the Love Back in Valentine’s
Valentine’s Day is on its way, and for many, this “Hallmark holiday” seems to have lost its luster, but I, for one, still appreciate it. Valentine’s Day is the perfect …
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Teen
It’s amazing when you are pregnant that there are books, magazines, and websites — not to mention any person you come in contact with when you are sporting a baby …
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Should You Track Your Teenager’s Location?
The year was 2010, one year before Apple’s ‘Find My Friends’ feature was released. My son was in the tenth grade and had just started driving. So, of course, I …
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Why 2021 Needs Goals More than Ever
2019 was one of my best years ever. That January 1st I was prepped and ready with a list of attainable goals. They were goals that were specific, outlined, and …
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20 Hilarious (& Truthful) Tweets About Parenting a Teen
When every mom and dad who congratulated me on my pregnancy and then later my beautiful infants/toddlers warned, “just wait until they become teens,” I always wondered how bad could …
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We Can’t Find Time to Have Sex Anymore
Are any other parents having trouble figuring out how to have sex when their kids are home all the time? We’d already been through all the stages, or so we …
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Watching Parenthood with My 13-Year-Old
“Hey Mommy,” my 13-year-old says. “Want to watch another episode of Parenthood with me?” Of course I do! I stop what I’m doing and settle in next to her on …
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My Husband and I Don’t Exchange Christmas Gifts, Here’s Why
“We’re sticking with the same plan as always, right?” As we tidied up our Thanksgiving meal and switched gears to Christmas planning, I knew my husband just wanted to double …
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Great Ideas for Ringing In an At-Home Christmas
This year is shaping up to be one of the calmest Christmases in the history of Christmases. My husband’s work party is indefinitely postponed, my kids aren’t performing in a …
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Staying Home for Thanksgiving, When We’d Rather Not
When I moved to the United States to go to college, I found out just what a big deal Thanksgiving was. Sure we have it in Canada, but my memories …
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Thanksgiving is Different, But Don’t Give Up on It
Growing up, Thanksgiving was the next best thing to family reunions. People who I only saw during the holidays would show up—unknown second and third cousins, childhood family friends, uncles, …
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New Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving this Year
Thanksgiving 2020 is shaping up to be quite different than past years. It is kind of the theme of 2020, isn’t it? Different. Lots of rough patches sprinkled with rays …
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When Is It Time to Downsize?
“I think we are going to sell our house … get something smaller.” It caught me off guard, hearing this news from my best friend. She and her husband purchased …
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