Tag: children
Adventure Awaits with Wanderwild
A new assignment is always filled with new adventures, with new things to learn and explore together as a family. The mom-owned company Wanderwild...
3 Steps for Teaching Children Emotional Resilience
I believe that teaching emotional resilience is crucial to raising young children into successful adults. Kids in the military need an extra layer of...
Raising an Orchid Child in the Military
The symbol of the military child is the dandelion - a flower that can grow in almost any condition and is nearly impossible to...
Guilt-Free Screen Time : YouTube Read Alouds to the Rescue
How many books can one mom read aloud to her children?
Five? Ten? Seven hundred and thirty-eight?
COVID-19 is helping me find out. Before social distancing...
Cheap Summer Sensory Bins For Preschoolers
In the UK, schools are out for summer break at the end of July. For a whole six weeks.
And that isn't including the eleven...
Dear School Districts: Keeping Schools Closed Does Not Work For Everyone
To Whom It May Concern:
As the mother of two elementary-aged children, the decision of whether or not to reopen schools this fall and how that...
10 Summer Fun Ideas While Social Distancing
Ah, summer. The weather is warming up, and the country is slowly going back into "normal."
We see across the nation some retailers starting to open...
Gossip Girl: What the End of a Friendship Taught Me About...
“She’s lying about me.”
“She hurt my feelings.”
“She’s being mean.”
Any of these statements could’ve been uttered by my eight-year-old daughter; and, to be sure, they...
Dear White Parents: Our Fate Rests With You
My 7-year-old was reading a book about Jackie Robinson last night. Robinson was born in 1919, and in 1947, he became the first African...
10 Cardboard Box Crafts and Recycling Activities For Kids
Being a forces family, we move around a lot.
By default, that means a LOT of boxes. Big boxes, small boxes, broken boxes, over taped...
Babies Will Cry, and It Will Be OK
My sister sat next to her crying baby on the ground, hand on her forehead. Her little boy wailed, arching his back and swinging...
5 Ways to Prepare your Child for Deployment
Five weeks.
My husband was home for a measly five weeks when he got orders for his next deployment. That marked four deployments within...