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How Do You Limit Kids’ Screen Time?

My new post Screen Time is up at ForeverParenting.  If anyone has kids that stare at screens too often, hop on over and give me some advice.  🙂  I’m needing it. One of the disadvantages of home schooling is, well, that they’re home all the time and the Siren...

Doing Well With Logic, Working on the Love

So, we’re on day 3 of Amy’s renewed commitment to being a more balanced parent. Had some successes and some failures today. Captain Earthquake managed to push my buttons this afternoon and I got impatient with him. 🙁 He just hates to leave the house, and...

3 Things I’ve Noticed About Twins

I haven’t written much about the realities of being a mother of twins.  Perhaps because so many others have already had much to say on the subject.  If you’re the parent of multiples, people tend to say very similar things when they find out.  Many are...

Keeping Stored Clothing Fresh

My Friday post at ForeverParenting is all about storing clothes and keeping them smelling great.  There’s a sewing and a no-sew solution to the plastic smell clothes can get when you keep them in totes for a long time. My sister gave me a great idea when we...

There’s No Place Like the Home Throne

I was reminded today of a cute episode we had with The Manager when he was 3.  We’d gone to a museum a few hours from home to see Thomas the Tank Engine, and had stayed the night to spend a second day enjoying the museum while we were there.  The second day, The...