Parenting

60 Family Dinner Conversation Starters to Connect with Your Kids | If you're looking for a list of fun and creative conversation starters for kids, this post is just what you need. Family meals are a great way to establish family values, expand your child's vocabulary, and spend quality time together. You can use these table conversation starters for any meal (not just dinner!), on a road trip, and for extended family get togethers at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other big milestones!

60 Family Dinner Conversation Starters to Connect with Your Kids

7 Self Help Strategies for Postpartum Anxiety | We've all heard of postpartum depression, but did you know that many new moms suffer from heightened anxiety after childbirth? The symptoms are similar to PPD, with PPA causing excessive worry about things that are unlikely to happen. This post outlines the symptoms and causes of postpartum anxiety, with helpful tips, tools, coping strategies, and lifestyle habits that can help feel better sooner.

7 Self Help Strategies for Postpartum Anxiety

10 Common Parenting Mistakes To Avoid (And What To Do Instead) | If you promised yourself that you would learn from your parents' mistakes when you had kids of your own, but still catch yourself doing or saying things you have tried hard to avoid, you are not alone. And you are not your mother or father! This list of common parenting mistakes also includes recommendations on how to overcome these struggles so you don't end up repeating them again in the future.

10 Common Parenting Mistakes To Avoid (And What To Do Instead)

How to Parent a Highly Sensitive Child | Raising a HSC can make your parenting journey extra challenging. The signs and traits of highly sensitive kids can vary, but often include symptoms like being highly reactive, intuitive, and empathetic, sensory sensitivities to lights and sounds, perfectionism, rigidity, etc. This post is full of helpful tips on how to help a child with big emotions, allowing them to excel at home and in school, sleep more peacefully, and feel supported and loved.

How to Parent a Highly Sensitive Child: 10 Tips and Ideas

How to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids | If you're looking for fun and easy ways to teach kids about money, we've curated a list of tips and lessons to help parents and teachers teach kids about money management at home and in the classroom. We've also included a list of simple money activities for kids, which offer fun ways to help your children and students apply the life skills you're trying to teach them. If you want to help your child create good money habits, this post is for you!

16 Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Financial Literacy to Kids

How to Teach Kids to Use a Knife and Fork | If your child doesn't know how to use a fork and knife to eat, don't fret. This fine motor skill can be challenging to teach, especially for children with gross and fine motor skill delays, but we have tons of tips to help you break the steps down into management chunks. Drawing from tutorials from occupational therapy sessions, to OT activities you can do at home, this post is a great resource for occupational therapists, parents, and teachers!

How to Teach Kids to Use a Knife and Fork: 22 Tips and Tutorials

20 Healthy Snacks Kids Can Make Themselves | Whether you have a child who loves to get involved in the kitchen and will eat anything and everything, or a super picky eater who doesn't like much at all, teaching kids to cook quick meals and snacks on their own is a great way to make kids independent while dealing with picky eating in a positive way. This post has TONS of simple and easy snacks kids can make to store in the fridge or snack cupboard, or pack for school or on the go!

20 Healthy Snacks Kids Can Make Themselves

How to Put Yourself First As A Mom: 15 Tips and Self-Care Ideas | You're probably heard that 'self-care isn't selfish', but once you become a mother, finding time for yourself can be very challenging. When you are juggling motherhood, a home, and a career, finding time for yourself can feel impossible, but sometimes you have to get out of your head and make yourself a priority. This post has lots of easy ways to put yourself first on the regular so you can show up well for the ones you love.

How to Put Yourself First As A Mom: 15 Tips and Self-Care Ideas

How to Prepare Your Child for a New Sibling | If you're expecting a new baby and need tips on how to share the news with your child - and how to prepare them for the days and weeks after your newborn bundle of joy comes home - this post includes lots of useful information. We've curated 10 age-appropriate books to help start the conversation, as well as tips to consider BEFORE baby arrives, and what to do AFTER your bring the baby home.

How to Prepare Your Child for a New Sibling: 8 Tips for Parents