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...

Mom New-Year Resolutions

It’s that time of year. Ready or not, here comes 2017. Before we go setting ourselves up with unrealistic goals we’ll forget by month’s (week’s?) end, let’s set up something that will create a lifetime of treasures. A few themes I tend to revisit annually include: I will set aside...