Why your kids should get outside more often
The benefits of getting outside are well known. Here’s 3 reasons why your kids should get outside more often. It’s good for them and good for you.
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Parenting
Raising Royalty requires real life, real love and real stories. Here’s how I’m single parenting mine.
How to swap kids’ seasonal clothes
Swapping kids seasonal clothes every year can be an overwhelming chore. Here are 3 strategies this single mom of 6 uses to contain the chaos.
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Road Trip Checklist: How to Travel with Kids
When you travel with kids, for the day or for a week long trip, it can be hard to remember everything! Here’s a handy road trip checklist to help you out.
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My Top 5 Favorite (Non-Electronic) Educational Value Toys!
Toys that have high play value and high educational value are the ones that seem to last around here. Here’s my top 5 non-electronic educational value toys!
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Summer Vacation: Your Beach Trip Checklist!
Want to make sure your trip to the beach is perfect? Use this beach trip checklist so your day is memorable for all the right reasons.
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My Top 5 Kids Summer Activities
What kinds of kids summer activities can you come up with — that don’t mean a ton of effort or money on your part? Here are 5 simple but super fun things.
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To the Mom of Just One Child
I was once where you are, with just one child. For four years, I had a delightful, aggravating, adorable and annoying little girl, all to myself. It was just her and me, and I didn’t know if I was going to have any more. Being a mom of one, no matter what your reason, comes
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Special Needs: Transitions and delays — Getting a copy of report and assessment
Life has a way of taking interesting twists and turns. I didn’t know how important getting a copy of report and assessments would be. Right around the time that I was growing more concerned about my daughter’s development, my marriage was disintegrating. So by the time we saw the speech-language pathologist (SLP), I was already
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Single Parenting: Co-Parenting or Parallel Parenting?
Single parents are single for many reasons. Some are single by choice, adopting or having children through donors. Some are single parents by “accident”, making the choice to have their child after an unplanned pregnancy. But many are single because we had our children while in a relationship, but then our relationships ended. When you
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Dear new mom, it’s ok to cry
Congratulations. Whether this is your first child, or like me, your 6th child, a new baby is a reason for celebration. And you are a new mom, even if you aren’t a first time mom. New moms need support, no matter what the circumstances. What that support means to a new mom is different with
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