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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

11 Working Memory Games for Kids | Looking for inexpensive (and free!) working memory activities for children with developmental delays like ADHD, executive functioning disorder, and autism, as well as students with learning disabilities like ADHD? With 7 strategies and 11 activities designed to develop a child’s memory, planning, and organization skills, this collection of fun ideas will help make learning fun at home and in the classroom! #workingmemory #workingmemorygames #specialeducation

Don’t forget! 18 working memory games and strategies for kids

11 Scooter Board Activities | Looking for fun occupational therapy ideas to do at home or in the classroom to develop a child’s gross motor skills, improve focus for greater learning, reduce stress and anxiety, and help with self-regulation? From awesome ideas children can do independently, to obstacle course inspiration for teachers and therapists who have access to a gym, these heavy work activities for kids are so much fun! #scooterboard #grossmotor #grossmotoractivities

Gross Motor Play: 11 Super Fun Scooter Board Activities for Kids

14 Team Building Activities for Kids | Looking easy and fun ways to teach team work, inclusion, social skills, communication, and problem solving in the classroom? These cooperative games and activities will inspire you! We’ve included indoor and outdoor ideas, ‘getting to know you’ icebreakers for the first day of school, and activities you can enjoy with your students all year long to encourage ongoing collaboration and team work. #teambuilding #teacherresources #teaching #classroom

14 Fun and Engaging Team Building Activities for Kids

13 Indoor Recess Activities for Kids | If you’re looking for fun classroom ideas to get your kids moving on snowy and rainy days, these brain break ideas will inspire you! Perfect for kids in preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school, we’ve included a mix of gross motor activities, learning stations ideas, team building games, and other classroom games and movement activities to keep your students engaged and help them blow off steam. #indoorrecess #brainbreaks

Rain rain go away! 13 indoor recess activities for kids

31 Jewelry Crafts for Kids | If you’re looking for simple jewelry project ideas for children, this collection has it all, including how to make friendship bracelets, washer necklace crafts, and other fun DIY jewelry projects mom and dad can do with their little ones, like salt dough and polymer clay necklaces. #jewelrycraftsforkids #jewelryprojectsofrkids #DIYjewelryforkids

Jewelry Crafts for Kids: 31 DIY Jewelry Projects to Try at Home

Art Therapy for Kids | Perfect for emotional healing, anger management, helping kids deal with feelings related to trauma, grief, and divorce, and for kids with mental health challenges and special needs like autism, ADHD, OCD, and anxiety, this collection of simple and creative art therapy projects and crafts will help your child deal with their emotions and heal. #arttherapyforkids #arttherapyprojects #arttherapyactivities

Art Therapy for Kids: 22 Activities to Help Your Child Cope and Heal

How to Discipline a Toddler | Parenting is hard enough as it is, and when you throw tantrums into the mix, it can be downright overwhelming. Whether you’re the mom to sons or daughters, the toddler years will leave you wondering how to get your kid to behave without yelling or time outs, and this collection of 10 simple positive discipline ideas will teach you how to do just that. #tempertantrums #positiveparenting #positivediscipline

How to Discipline a Toddler: 10 Tips that Actually Work