Parenting

Last updated: June 25th, 2024Navigating the realm of homeschooling a child with autism presents unique challenges and opportunities. It requires patience, flexibility, and adaptability to offer a tailored education that caters to their distinctive learning style. Creating an environment that is both comforting and conducive to learning is paramount for these children. Keep reading to […]

Last updated: May 21st, 2024With all the safety and health precautions you must consider, taking your infant on a family road trip can be intimidating. Here are seven road trip tips to help make the entire experience fun and memorable for you and your little one. Set realistic expectations  Before starting the planning process, you

Last updated: January 10th, 2022Nowadays, most children have their own gadgets and gaming consoles that keep them occupied. While such technological innovations may prompt strategic thinking, too much of those activities may start to hamper their creativity. Children need to have a good balance between mental and physical activities to fill their time. After all,

Last updated: July 22nd, 2021 Back to school times means earlier bedtimes, bright and early mornings, packing lunches (again), buying school supplies, doing homework and surviving the school drop-off and pick-up line. (People, the right lane is for drop off and the left lane is more moving traffic!) To help you survive back to school

Last updated: July 23rd, 2021Growing up, I was not lucky enough to go on family vacations. We were dirt poor. My mother was a teen mom and the only time I was lucky enough to go on a “trip” was to go up north to my aunt and uncles trailer in Oscoda. They owned a

Last updated: July 23rd, 2021This spring we took a road trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I have traveled so much for work; I wanted to go somewhere new. I had never been to South Carolina and thought it would be warmer than Northern Michigan. I was wrong about it being much warmer. When we

Last updated: July 22nd, 2021When my children were little, the days would sometimes feel so slow. You know the ones. The ones where there was no sleep. The ones where I’d pray for sleep and a shower. Even taking them on trips was not easy, even if I had all the right things – like

Last updated: July 23rd, 2021The average household in the United States contains approximately 300,000 things. If you’re a parent, you might know far too well — perhaps from stepping on a rogue plastic brick and subsequently writhing in pain — that your child’s Lego collection encompasses a significant portion of those 300,000 things. Lego is