Children with alcoholic fathers
My ex-husband past away last year due to complications from his alcoholism. We’d been divorced for 11 years by this time, but still bound together through our daughter, Megan. By the time Megan turned three, Mark’s drinking had taken it’s toll on our four-year...
Cheap, easy, delicious, and (mostly) healthy home Mexican dishes
I love food. I’ve always had a huge appetite, so I’ve always had to watch the kind of food that I eat as I eat so much of it! As such, I felt compelled to share one of my staple recipes that can feed a family with a variety of twists on the base recipe and most kids...
How to keep your New Year Resolution to exercise this year
New Year Resolutions get a bad rap. We fear the sense of failure if we can’t maintain our goals, In fact, research from the University of Scranton suggests that only 8% of people achieve their New Year’s goals. However, a study published in the Journal of...
Avoiding holiday meltdowns
Thanksgiving caught us with our pants down – maybe not literally, but it was a couple days earlier on the calendar this year and then, YIKES – Black Friday! Our stress meters are instantly fully engaged. Black Friday has come to represent Warrior Mode for many of us....
The best family vacation for the lowest price
A family vacation is essential to bonding and building memories that last a lifetime, but vacations can be really hard to squeeze into the family budget. Every family wants to take their kids to Disney World at least once, but that’s a seriously expensive bucket...
Getting our kids off electronics
Kids and electronics today often seem like a match made in heaven as they preoccupy our kids for hours on end while we catch up on rest, cleaning … or our own guilty pleasures. But, most of us know the potentially addictive nature of electronics and would rather...
4 fears facing a newly single mom
There’s nothing scarier to a new mom than going it alone. While separating from your baby’s dad may come as a relief from mental and/or physical anguish, it will leave you face to face with the fear of caring for a small child all by yourself – there goes...
Anxiety in our children is on the rise. Why?
It seems to me that most of today’s kids have so much more than my peers and I did thirty-plus years ago, yet studies are showing anxiety in children to be on a steady rise in the 21st century. A study published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral...
Three different families from a single mom’s viewpoint
Bringing a new human life into the world may be an every day event in the grand scheme, but to a young couple it is as new and foreign as moving to the other side of the world. Couples struggle with their identities as life presents new challenges and fazes – college,...
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