After the Christmas Toys Have Lost Their Shine

A family with a bent toward mindfulness or just simply practicality, we wean off some toys pre-holiday chaos to prepare for the incoming holiday gifts. But still, somehow, inevitably by spring the kids seem bored again. Their bins are overflowing and yet their hearts are lackluster with the thrill of...

Stow or Give Away?

Babies grow up quickly. They outgrow their belongings sometimes before they get a chance to try them on much less get extended use out of them. Especially as we currently live in a time of baby consumerism on steroids, we often amass a lot of stuff that babies will use...

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Teaching Toddlers to Be Kind to Animals

For kids with pets in the home, as well as kids who may encounter pets (read: all kids), it is massively important to teach them respect and kindness towards animals. I can’t stress the importance of this enough. The reasons are threefold: safety, teaching empathy, and of course, the humane...

Ten Ways You Can Tell You're a Mom of Young Kids

I woke up this morning and could not recall Was I a mom or not a mom at all? Then to me these ten things occurred And whether I a mother ‘twas no longer blurred. First within the poop I sifted a mystery Then walls without marker became history. I...