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11 Essentials for Your Second Baby Registry

What do you even need for a second baby? Is it tacky to throw a baby shower every time you get pregnant? Are you ever going to be able to ...

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The First Time You Leave Your Kids for the Night: A Worried Mom’s Survival Guide

The time has finally come: You have spent the past days and months being your child’s sole provider. You made sure they were fed lovingly, their emotional needs and support ...

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Getting Un-Busy: How to Get Life to Slow Down

Un-Busy? Slow Down? No way. If I slow down, the laundry will pile up. If I get un-busy, the family won’t get fed. If I take a break or take ...

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How to Handle a Jealous Older Sibling

I dreamed of growing my family and giving my older daughter a sibling.  However, a divorce derailed my plans, until I met my current husband and we were lucky enough to ...

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How to Teach a Kid How to Ride a Bike

You never think about how you’re going to teach your kid to ride a bike, you just daydream about it wistfully, buy the bandaids, and wait for the Hallmark moment ...

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6 Simple Strategies for Keeping Up With High-Energy Kids

Keeping up with high-energy kids can be daunting. And if we’re being honest, sometimes this leaves us not wanting to deal with certain situations at all. If you can relate, ...

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Real Talk: How to Do Self Care When You Have No Help

True self-care is the practice of cultivating daily habits that contribute to nourishing our mind, body, and spirit. . When our mind, body, and spirit are nourished and in alignment - we ...

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Are Walkers Safe for Babies?

When you become a parent, you get used to everyone around you giving you conflicting advice.  If you co-sleep, you’ll never get them out of your bedroom. If your baby sleeps in ...

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How Old Is Too Old to Trick or Treat?

Past the age of 12, parents start to look at their gangly, hormonal kids heading out the door in a costume with a pillowcase on Halloween and wonder — Are ...

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Quick and Easy Hairstyles for Moms Who Are Busy AF

You know those mamas who always look put together? I'm talking their makeup on, hair done, wearing clothes with an abnormally scarce amount of sticky finger stains and/or spit-up? Well, ...

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Five 20-Minute Living Room Workouts

Exercising with kids around is about as easy to do as a crow’s pose after eating a plate of nachos. If it’s not a drowsy five-year-old trying to keep up ...

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