Parenting Perspectives

  I am a gardener! Every year, for the past three years, my children and I go into our backyard and decide what we want to plant. We pick a spot, dig up the ground, and plant. We go out daily...

In case no one ever told you: Mom, your feelings matter, too.   I follow a lot of parenting and motherhood-related accounts on Instagram, and if you’re a social media user, you probably do, too.   I particularly like to find encouragement in...

As moms, we learn to decode our child’s cries. A low, nasally one accompanied by the word “no” is usually a whine type of cry. It doesn’t signal an emergency. The other type sends chills down my spine. It...

March is Women’s History Month, and there’s no better time to use your nighttime reading to spotlight who runs the world ... girls!      Women's History Month: For the Preschool/Elementary Crowd   These are great books to rotate into your bedtime reading routine.   She Persisted Written...

So the one thing that I’ve really learned during this pandemic is that I don’t have many hobbies. After teaching and “mom-ing," I’m usually too exhausted to even stay awake past 8 PM. Over the past year, though, I’ve...

Video games are fun and cool when you’re young, but I got to a point in my life that video games became a fear of mine. When I had children, I developed this fear, a bit irrational perhaps, that...

Screen time was a challenge before the pandemic. Now? With a little bit of consideration, it doesn't have to be so tough.   They’re going to ask. Sometimes it’s from the moment they wake up. My four-year-old will start imploring about...

I am a self-proclaimed news junkie. I enjoy starting my morning with some local tv anchor banter and the forecast, and I have a nightly date with Lester Holt while I’m putting the finishing touches on dinner. My “background...

Have you heard of the Montessori Method? Applying some of the key components to your routines can have a huge impact on how you parent! As someone who learns best from doing things as opposed to reading about them, The...

    Kindness matters. Think about the time when someone held the door for you, or the time someone in front of you paid for your Starbucks, or the time it snowed, and you came out of work to find that...