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“Just” a Stay-at-Home Mom

  • 5 Tips for Great Family Camping

    5 Tips for Great Family Camping

    5 Tips for a Great Family Camping Trip It’s family camping season and we couldn’t be more excited! We have camped (in a camper), with our children since they were babies.  Now that we have a 4 and 6-year-old, we have had a few years of practice.  Here are my 5 tips to make it…

  • How to Encourage Independence

    How to Encourage Independence

    New Chapters in parenting This weekend we hit a new chapter of parenting: Independence! Our kids are now 4 and 6, and this weekend was the first time they independently played outside with our neighbors for about 2 hours. It was incredible. As a disclaimer – we live in Montana, where the Covid-19 restrictions in…

  • Supporting Parents During Covid-19

    Hi there! It’s April, 2020 – and Covid-19 has made our world a very different place.  To connect with parents who are facing such a variety of challenges in this socially-distanced world, I hosted a Facebook Live question/answer hour.  Join me again this Monday, at 2pm MST to get YOUR questions answered.:) Here is the…

  • Decide What you Will Do (To Motivate Children to Clean-up)

    Decide What you Will Do (To Motivate Children to Clean-up)

    Today, I want to share how this tool can be very effective in motivating a toddler to clean up.  “Decide what you will do and follow through” is one of my FAVORITE Positive Discipline tools right now with my 3-year old.  But I have been using it since he was about 1, though.  It helps…

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