Category: Parenting
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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…
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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…
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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…