Over the years I’ve picked up some tips for helping my tween sleep better. To be honest, this wasn’t something that was on my radar before. We talk all the time about helping babies and little kids get more rest. Good sleep is important as kids get older, too. Tweens and teens often have the reputation of displaying odd sleeping…
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Screens often get a bad rap when it comes to tweens and teens. I can’t say that it’s not warranted, either. When my daughter gets the opportunity to use my cell phone, or get on her tablet, she can go into a trance. I can call her name over and over and it’s like she doesn’t hear me. Over the…
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Being healthy doesn’t have to be hard. I mean, making huge changes can be challenging, but small tweaks here and there, that’s easy. Every year I resolve to eat better and feed my family better, and I’m happy to report that so far we’ve been doing really good.
For the last eight years, I’ve been working remote with kids at home. I’ve raised one child through daycare, preschool, and elementary school during that time. I’m currently in the second phase where I added an exclusively breastfed baby who is now in a part-time preschool program. To say that I’m I’m a pro at working remotely with kids at…
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I visited the set of the movie STARGIRL (now streaming on Disney+) STARGIRL by Jerry Spinelli has been one of my favorite YA books for years. I read it as a teacher before I had even had kids of my own. Once I had a daughter, I introduced it to her by listening to the audiobook on commutes back and…
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