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10 Multi-Age Activities to Encourage Your Kids’ Curiosity

Mom and two kids playing with a puzzle together. Puzzles are one of the 10 multi-age activities in this list that encourage your kids curiosity.

Activities to encourage your kids’ curiosity does not require expensive kits or classes. You can engage your children in fun explorations, simply. This list of 10 activities for multiple ages will encourage your kids’ curiosity both at home and out and about. … [Read more...]

When You Can’t Get Pregnant

This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. Please view my disclosure for more info. Every October is a reminder of what I lost. I know miscarriage is not the same as going through infertility, but there is an overlap of emotions. When you can’t get pregnant, it resonates as a loss. My loss stays with me forever. An October does not go by without the memory of my due … [Read more...]

Teaching Children about Bullies: Back off Buzz!

Back off Buzz book review and teaching children about bullies.

Even at my age I still remember the moment the bully made fun of me. It was on a field trip. It took me a long time to move past that feeling of humiliation. Bullies can effect our view of ourselves in deep ways. Teaching children about bullies is a life skill they need to learn. It prepares them to handle bullies. It also teaches them how to not be a bully! Back off Buzz! … [Read more...]

Teaching Positive Behavior in Preschoolers

Watching my daughter clean up her room, I noticed she was having trouble. It is always my goal to be teaching positive behavior, so I kept watching for a minute. I wanted to learn what was challenging her. She would pick up an item from a pile of clutter. Then she would set it to her other side. She did this repeatedly with one pile of clutter. She picked up each item to her … [Read more...]

Book-Based Activity Kits for Kids: Ivy Kids Review

  Are you looking for project ideas that will keep your child learning and having fun too? Take a look at Ivy Kids book-based activity kits for kids. Started by a stay-at-home mom and Early Childhood educator, Ivy Kids kits are filled with hands-on learning activities centered around a book for kids.   This post was sponsored by Ivy Kids. I only review and share … [Read more...]

Teach Kids How to Make Friends

Two lessons all children need to learn are how to make friends and how to navigate through the challenges of friendships. As parents we all want to teach kids how to make friends. Often our children learn hard lessons when they have to move to a new state or school. My kids have become all too familiar with this through military life. Every three years they have to make new … [Read more...]

Natural Living Gift Guide

Are you making changes to your lifestyle to live more naturally? If not that is ok! The holiday season is a great time to gift or request a gift that will help you set some goals to detox your home and be a more natural mama. This Natural Living Gift Guide is great inspiration for gifts and goals for the new year. … [Read more...]

DIY Magnet Learning Busy Book

As a child I loved a good, interactive busy book. Books that you could velcro, button or put things into pockets are some of my favorite activities from when I was younger. My girls loved books that you could open flaps on or that had different textures. Today I’m sharing an easy DIY magnet learning busy book for kids you can create in under an hour! This DIY busy book … [Read more...]

Best Books for Babies

Reading to our babies is so important. Babies have a unique attention span linked very much to their need for food and sleep frequently throughout the day. The best books for babies will lead you to great choices. Reading a book to your baby will be more about repetition, hearing language, and most importantly closeness to YOU. These are the best books for babies that I read … [Read more...]

5 Ways to Get Siblings Excited about a New Baby

Ideas to get siblings excited for a new baby.

{Post by Tracy} Our first fur baby and princess pup Zoe was not excited about our twins joining the family. She saw the twins for the first time and looked so surprised. She seemed to think they were 2 little birds sitting on top of the changing table. I was worried she would not adjust to having 2 new babies at her house. Now they love each other. A couple of years later, … [Read more...]

Stay at Home Mom, Find Balance and Be Joyful

Find balance and be joyful in motherhood. Focus on faith.

Motherhood can make us feel that we are in a juggling act. We try to seek balance and be joyful, but kids, husband, house, our needs and wants all pull us in different directions. We worry that if we drop one ball they all will come crashing down! We are busy and yet not feeling productive many days as the line between needs and wants become blurred. Attempting to keep it all … [Read more...]

What to do with Toddlers

What to do with toddlers while homeschooling. Great activity ideas for toddlers and preschoolers while you are homeschooloing older kids or just need activities for learning at home.

{This post is sponsored by Autumn McKay. All opinions are my own.} We started our first homeschool year last year. Balancing 2 toddlers while magically creating time to focus on my older two children was a challenge to say the least. (Brings out super woman cape from the closet…) The juggling act of homeschooling multiple children in multiple learning levels is-to be blunt- … [Read more...]

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