6 Things Moms Who Have Trouble Pumping Need to Know
Exclusively pumping, pumping and nursing combination, formula feeding, or exclusively breastfeeding. There are several ways to feed your baby, and it depends on the...
6 Ways to Get Your Kids More into Music
Parents know that music is important in a child's development. Research has shown that music aids in a child's development as early as within...
7 Benefits of Exposing Young Children to Modern Technology
Technology is important to a developing child, and we're not just talking about their periodic use of your tablet to play educational games. Getting...
Kids’ Christmas Gifts that Aren’t Things
It's the hap-happiest time of the year, but let's be real — you're looking at the toys your children already have and think, "We cannot bring...
Family Planning: Why my husband will never have a vasectomy
First comes love,
Then comes marriage,
Then comes a baby in a baby carriage…
And then comes a vasectomy.
In this day and age with family planning at...
6 Ways To Teach Your Kids About Finance
Back-to-school time means plenty of lessons to learn in the classroom. But parents usually have to be the teachers when it comes to a...
Give the Gift of Reading: Books for Preschoolers and Young Kids
There is no better gift for a child than the gift of literacy, literature, and a lifelong love of reading. To be read to...
7 Ways to Help Grieving Children During the Holidays
Grief during the holidays serves up a perfect storm where joyous memories crash against reality and expectations, something that is especially tough when it...
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Adopting Older Kids
More than likely when someone says “adoption,” you picture a family adopting a newborn baby. That’s probably because when adoption is portrayed in movies...
How to Teach Your Kids to Unplug from Tech and Get...
The statistics are staggering. Only one out of every three children in the U.S. spends time being physically active each day. Less than fifty...
7 Cyberbullying Tips Every Child Should Know
The use of tech to harass a person, or what’s commonly known as cyberbullying, is on the rise. Fifteen percent of students admit to...
Deployment Tools for Children
You’ve just been told that your spouse is leaving for a nine-month deployment, your first deployment with children. Your mind goes in a million...
5 Thanksgiving Kid’s Table Ideas for the Win
Nothing is more grating on parents’ nerves than crushing it in the kitchen, making Pinterest-worthy meals only to have our kids — our own flesh...
Why you should consider online music lessons
Music and arts are being left behind in most schools' curriculums due to lack of funding, but these important subjects have been known to...
Hidden Dangers in Today’s Popular Video Games like Fortnite
Video games like Fortnite are incredibly popular with tweens and teens. The developers add new features and play modes every week to entice players...
We Don’t Do Thanksgiving
Military life gives us so much to be thankful for — priceless travel opportunities, a ride-or-die framily, opportunities to remind ourselves just how strong...
What is All Saint’s Day?
All Saint’s Day is a Catholic Christian Holiday that occurs annually on November 1. For Catholics, this is considered a Holy Day of Obligation...
Celebrating Holidays in a TLF
Yay! You got orders, and you successfully made it to the temporary lodging facility (TLF) at your new home base. You know (with like...
5 Things to Know about Middle School Challenges
Middle school is the start of a new era for kids. It’s all about transition. The little munchkin you used to walk to class...
Rape Culture is Real: Talking to our Boys About Consent
In the past few years, the world has confirmed:
Women's right are not only unimportant but also laughable.Women Lie.Black lives don't matter.Rape culture is okay.If...
Teaching Kids About Earthquakes Without Scaring Them
The unknown is a dark, scary place for a kid. And, when you think about it, so much of their world is unknown. They...
To Bring Kids or Not to Bring Kids to Events
We’ve all seen those children. You know the ones, they're throwing fits during the invocation at a change of command or running around during...
The Top 5 Money Mistakes College Students Make
This is a guest post by BeenVerified's Justin Lavelle sharing advice on how to prevent making these common mistakes.
During the college years, parents and students alike are often...
nanobébé- The Best Bottle for Breastfed Babies
Whether we like it or not, all moms know that at some point during our littles one’s infancy we will likely need to leave...
Summer Camp for Kids in Santa Monica
Any working mom knows that it can be difficult to find child care, especially during the summer time when kids are off from school....
Letting go of toxic siblings
You can choose your friends - but you can't choose your family. With all the shared life experiences and upbringing, siblings have the potential...
Surviving the 2018 Japan Floods: Part 1
Since World War II, Hiroshima, Japan has been a symbol of loss. A stroll through the Peace Park is sobering and gives me goosebumps...
Surviving the Japan Floods: Part 3
From the invaluable perspectives of two people removed from the situation, it seemed best to navigate back to Higashihiroshima. I knew I could get...
Surviving the 2018 Japan Floods: Part 5
I turned right out of the gas station parking lot with a determination I have never experienced before. This absolutely had to work. We...
Surviving the 2018 Japan Floods: The Conclusion
We made it across the bridge and kept going until I saw a sign for Route 2. This, when we weren’t in a hurry...
Surviving the 2018 Japan Floods: Part 2
We landed and sprinkles — nothing more, no ferocious pelting rain — dotted the window on the row-20 window of our Japan Airlines flight.
Carry-ons...
Surviving the 2018 Japan Floods: Part 4
Never having pumped my own gas in Japan before, that could have easily have been the most eventful part of my day on any...
7 Tips for Flying With Kids
“Snakes on a Plane” may have been terrifying for action star Samuel L. Jackson. Multiple venomous snakes that are loose on a plane while...
Why we need bugs, bees, and other creepy, crawly critters
If you have kids, especially boys, there will come a time in your life when you may just become accustomed to all things creepy...
How to Teach Social Justice to Our Children
“What’s wrong with that man? What does his sign say?” I hear this at least twice a day from my 3 year old. “Panhandling”...
Raising a Generation of Girl Coders
Whether we realize we are doing it or not as parents, we often propel our children toward activities that are normalized for their genders....
Rock Drainage Landscaping: Redefine Your Landscape for the Better with These...
When it comes to landscaping, one concept has been steadily gaining ground, quite literally: Rock drainage landscaping – the art of using stones and...
