Start Now With Back to School to Prepare Kids for Academic Success
School will be starting again before you know it, and kids who struggle academically need help learning life skills they need to overcome test anxiety and make good grades in the new school year. It’s a well-known fact that students lose an average of two months’...
5 Tips for a Cleaner Family Car
Family life has a way of lowering the standards of cleanliness to which you've adhered since your younger, wilder days. Although they're adorable enough to make up for it, kids are prone to making devastating messes, especially in enclosed spaces like their bedrooms,...
No One Told Me Children Were Born Individuals
I guess I was just ignorant or maybe just naïve when I became a parent, no one told me that my children could come out total opposites. There were no set rules, no one thing worked for both children. This was diabolical! The only thing I picked up from Mom was that...
Should You Unplug Your Kids?
Parents have been using television as a way to keep their children out of their hair for decades. Today, the television isn’t all kids are using to stay entertained; the smartphone is quickly becoming the tech gadget of choice among the world’s youth. If you’re...
Do You Know Who Runs Your Drug Plan?
I learn something new every day. It turns out that there are companies out there called Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) who manage prescription drug plans for many US employers. Hubby's company uses one of them. I knew about the company, but not that it was called a...
Check Out Sentry Safe’s Live Burn on August 16
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Sentry Safe was planning to do another live burn on August 2. Technical difficulties of some sort delayed the event, and it's been rescheduled for August 16. If you haven't watched one of these, you should! They literally put a bunch...
Protect Your Child Athletes: Signs of Marfan Syndrome
It doesn't happen frequently, but there have been cases of young and otherwise healthy athletes dying suddenly from an aortic dissection. It's called Marfan Syndrome, and it (along with related disorders) affects approximately 200,000 Americans. The good news is that...
Parenting Link Roundup: August, 2012 Part 1
Hullooooo, heroes! So I am late in publishing the parenting link roundup from July. As a result, there have been a plethora of submissions. It's crazy! Rather than overwhelm you with 52 links, I'm splitting it up into a few posts. So today, let's enjoy part one, and...
FFYF: The Final Edition
Happy Friday, heroes! Today is the very last Fun For Your Friday. After more than a year of doing this carnival, it's time to close the doors. I'm still doing the Parenting Link Roundup, which has gotten a good deal more participation. 🙂 That carnival will run once...
Shop Until You Drop – 5 Shopping Mall Tips for Teens
United States television hit reality series So You Think You Can Dance hostess Cat Deeley once said, “I don’t shop because I need something; I just shop for shopping’s sake!” As the mom of two boys, I don’t get many requests from my sons to go shopping at the mall...