by Amy LeForge | May 17, 2011 | Adolescence
I discovered tonight that one of the older boys (who is 13 going on 30) tried to friend someone on Facebook that he doesn’t know. This individual is a friend of a friend, and wasn’t so sure about a child making a friend request. End result: I was notified...
by Amy LeForge | May 16, 2011 | Education
(Editor’s note: please welcome Alvina with a guest post that offers practical strategies for helping kids do homework peacefully. Thanks, Alvina!) Every parent who has school-aged children has had, at one point or another during their parenting careers, to...
by Amy LeForge | May 13, 2011 | Fun For Your Friday
Good Friday, Heroes! Today we are participating in our very first egg drop contest. Very exciting. The challenge is to create a container that can hold an egg and protect it from cracking in a fall. The Captain’s first idea involved tin foil and plastic wrap. 3...
by Amy LeForge | May 12, 2011 | Education
Lots of people are interested in raising multilingual children, for many great reasons. Speaking six languages myself, and four fluently, I know that being multilingual can come in pretty handy. Speaking several languages fluently increases job opportunities, makes...
by Amy LeForge | May 11, 2011 | Contest
When I was at BlissDom this January I met Amy Wilson, the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer & Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be. Here’s Amy herself talking about the book: Amy was kind...
by Amy LeForge | May 9, 2011 | Baby
(Editor’s note: please welcome Davian Masters with some important information for parents of newborn and infants. Thanks, Davian!) Baby car seats have been created and especially designed to increase the safety of the youngest travelers in a vehicle. According...
