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11 Problem Solving Activities for Kids | If you want to help build your child’s social, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and anger management skills, these fun and effective ideas are for you! We’ve included worksheets, team building activities, task cards, and other creative challenges for small groups that can be used at home with parents or as a team in the classroom. #problemsolvingactivities #conflictresolution #selfregulation

Critical Thinking: 11 Problem Solving Activities for Kids

Baby Led Weaning for Beginners | Starting baby with his or her first foods at 6 months can be scary, especially if your babe has no teeth! It used to be that starter foods consisted only of purees - baby oatmeal and mashed banana and sweet potato – but many moms are opting to go straight to table foods. If you want to know how to get started with BLW, as well as the best beginner foods and recipes to start with, we’re sharing 25 tips and ideas to inspire you! #babyledweaning #BLW #starterfoods

Baby Led Weaning for Beginners: 25 Tips and Recipes for New Moms

How to Make Homework Less Stressful | Looking for tips to make learning at home fun for your children? Whether you have kids in elementary, middle, or high school, these homework hacks will help maintain motivation and avoid power struggles with your kids. From creating a dedicated homework station and a planner for greater organization, to establishing a good homework routine, to teaching time management tips, these ideas really work! #homeworktips #homework #parentingtips #backtoschool

How to Make Homework Less Stressful: 11 Tips for Parents

15 Natural Ways to Boost Your Energy | Want to know how to kickstart your energy naturally? We’re sharing 15 tips and ideas to help you feel more energized in the mornings and beyond without relying on coffee and other sources of caffeine. Diet and fitness are great natural energy boosters, but there are tons of other simple tweaks you can make to your daily routine to help you feel more alert and productive. Click to find out more! #energybooster #wakeup #wakeuprefreshed #havemoreenergy

Energized and Awake: 15 Natural Ways to Boost Your Energy

How to Be a Happy Mom | Whether you’re a stay at home mom, or you work outside the home, you probably look at other mothers (and families) and wonder what their secret is. How do they maintain a positive attitude no matter what life throws at them? How do they get their children to behave so well? Where do they find the time and energy to do fun things with their kids everyday? If you want to be a happy mom (and wife), these parenting tips are for you! #happymom #momlife #parentingtips

How To Be a Happy Mom: 9 Tips to Find Joy in Parenting

How to Get Kids to Stop Sucking Their Thumb | Perfect for toddlers and older children, these thumb sucking alternatives and behavior strategies will teach you how to get your child to stop sucking his or her thumb (or fingers) once and for all! From reward charts and products that make it impossible for kids to get their thumbs in their mouths, to less invasive DIY gloves and solutions to help curb bad habits over time, these parenting tips work! #thumbsucking #parentingtips #positiveparenting

How to Get Kids to Stop Sucking Their Thumb: 11 Tips that Work

38 Summer Activities for Kids | Looking for ideas to keep your kids busy at home this summer that are fun and educational? Whether you have toddlers, kids in preschool or kindergarten, or older kids, there are tons of things to do that are inexpensive and easy to setup. Check out our favorite indoor and outdoor summer activities, as well as summer group games for kids and summer science experiments designed for the mad scientists in your life! #summeractivities #summercrafts #summergames

Boredom Busters! The Ultimate List of 38 Summer Activities for Kids

27 Tips for Flying with a Baby | Baby’s first flight can be overwhelming if you’re not prepared – especially if you’re a new mom traveling alone! From packing lists and travel products for your carryon luggage, to travel tips to avoid ear pain and how to survive flying with a baby on your lap, to our favorite travel toys for babies age 6 to 12 months, this post has everything you need to make traveling on airplanes with little ones as easy as possible. #babytravel #momhacks #babysfirstflight

Baby’s First Flight: 27 Sanity-Saving Tips for Flying with a Baby

55 Family-Friendly Taco Tuesday Recipes | If you’re looking for healthy taco recipes your kids will enjoy as much as you, this collection of easy ideas will inspire you! Whether you prefer ground beef, steak, chicken, turkey, fish, shrimp, or vegetarian options with beans, these ideas will take your weeknight meals to the next level. With low carb keto options and simple slow cooker recipes, there’s a Taco Tuesday recipe here for everyone! #tacotuesday #tacotuesdayrecipes #tacorecipes

55 Family-Friendly Taco Tuesday Recipes To Indulge In

How to Get Kids to Stop Biting Their Nails | If you’re looking for natural tips and remedies to stop nail biting, we’re sharing 7 tips that actually work! We’re also sharing all the facts about nail biting, including common causes and recommended alternatives you can use to help replace the habit with something healthier. No matter how severe your child's nail biting gets, rest assured it can be fixed! #bitingnails #stopbitingnails #naturalremedies

How to Get Kids to Stop Biting Their Nails: 14 Tips for Parents

16 Summer Water Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for fun and creative ways to keep your kids cool and entertained outside this summer, these ideas are for you! From a DIY sprinkler and pool noodle waterfall, to outdoor games like water balloon pinatas and fill the bucket, these summer activities will be turning backyards into awesome summer retreats for kids everywhere on hot summer days! #wateractivities #summeractivities #outdooractivities #summerfun

Get Outside! 16 No Fuss Summer Water Activities for Kids

17 Button Crafts for Kids | Perfect for children of all ages – from toddlers to school-aged kids – this collection of easy DIY art projects is sure to keep your little ones busy. With so many ideas to choose from, like jewelry, magnets, keychains, frames, and bowls you can display with pride around your home, these creative ideas make the perfect gifts kids can make. They also make fun activities you can enjoy in the classroom! #buttoncraftsforkids #buttonactivities #kidscrafts

Fun at Home: 17 Fun and Easy Button Crafts for Kids We Love

How to Get Rid of the Pacifier | Getting children to give up their beloved pacifiers can feel like an impossible task. While a paci can be very helpful in getting a baby to calm down quickly – and it can help prevent SIDS – there is no benefit to toddlers and older kids continuing to use their pacifier. In fact, it can be quite damaging to their teeth! If you want to say ‘bye bye’ once and for all, we’re sharing 7 tips that help! #getridofpacifier #pacifierweaning #pacifierweaningtips

How to Get Rid of the Pacifier: 7 Pacifier Weaning Tips for Parents

Summer Routine Ideas for Kids | Summer should be fun for families, but it can be difficult for even the most organized mom! From planning fun activities to keeping your kids leaning to finding a little alone time so you don’t lose your mind, it can be overwhelming! If you’re looking for daily schedules and chore charts you can enforce at home during summer vacation to keep your child on some sort of routine, we’re sharing 10 tips and strategies we swear by. #summerroutine #summerschedule

How to Survive Summer Vacation: 10 Summer Routine Ideas for Kids

16 Pool Noodle Crafts for Kids | If you’re looking for easy DIY projects to do with your kids on bad weather days, need creative classroom crafts you can enjoy year-round, want awesome outdoor activities for summer vacation, or need birthday party game ideas, this post has it all! With 16 games, activities, and crafts to choose from, you’ll never hear the words ‘I’m bored’ again! #poolnoodlecrafts #kidscrafts #poolnoodlefun

Crafting on a Budget: 16 Pool Noodle Crafts for Kids

24 Must-Have Baby Gadgets to Make Life Easier | Looking for the coolest high tech gadgets for moms and dads? Whether you’re preparing for life with a newborn, need tips to make parenting twin babies easier, need products for traveling with baby, want to know the best and modern safety gadgets on the market, or you just want to be an awesome millennial mom with the latest tools for sleep, bath, feeding, and more, we’re sharing 24 of our favorite baby products! #babygadgets #babygear #babytech

Modern Parenting: 24 Genius Baby Gadgets to Make Life Easier

22 STEM Toys for Kids | If DIY projects aren’t your thing, but you want to find a way to incorporate STEAM learning into the kids activities you and your children do at home, this collection of ideas will inspire you! With ideas for toddlers, kids in preschool, kindergarteners, and for elementary aged kids (ages 6-12), we’ve curated 22 of the best STEM toys for girls and boys! Science, engineering, math, and technology has never been easier – or more fun! #stemtoys #stemactivities #stemprojects

Learning Made Fun: 22 STEM Toys for Kids of All Ages

24 Family Activities for Kids of All Ages | Looking for fun ways to spend quality time with your kids at home? Whether you need ideas for toddlers, kids in preschool, kindergarten, elementary-aged kids, tweens, or teenagers, we’ve got you covered. These boredom busters are perfect for weekends and school holidays, and will keep your family entertained and off their electronics in the summer, fall, winter, and spring! #familyactivities #boredombusters #familygames #familygamenight

Things To Do At Home: 24 Family Activities for All Ages

29 Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids | If you’re looking for easy kids activities for an upcoming birthday party, or to enjoy during summer vacation, on lazy weekends at home in the backyard, or while camping, at the park, or at the beach, this collection of scavenger hunt ideas with clues is sure to inspire you! With a selection of both indoor and outdoor ideas to choose from, you can enjoy these during fall, winter, spring, or summer! #scavengerhunt #indooractivities #outdooractivities

29 Indoor and Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Ideas for Kids

32 Felt Projects for Kids | If you’re looking for crafts and activities you can enjoy with your children on bad weather days, we’ve curated 32 ideas to inspire you! We’ve included easy no sew ideas for toddlers and preschoolers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more advanced DIY ideas for older kids to make. With free patterns and printable templates, you’ll be amazed what you can create with some felt, glue, thread, and a needle! #feltprojects #feltcrafts #nosew #kidssewingprojects

Crafting at Home: 32 Super Fun Felt Projects for Kids

How to Create a Stay at Home Mom Schedule | Whether you have a newborn baby, toddler, school age kids, or all 3, the key to parenting like a boss while still having time for organizing, cleaning, housekeeping tasks, meal planning, a daily workout, kids activities, and self-care is proper time management. We’re excited to share 21 tips to help you create a daily plan as well as sample morning, afternoon, and evening stay at home mom schedules! #stayathomemom #stayathomemomschedule #momschedule

How to Create a Stay At Home Mom Schedule to Save Your Sanity