So your kid is lounge lizard just like mine, eh? Check out how to get your indoorsy kid to play outside this summer!
Can Someone Else’s Baby Make You Pregnant?
June 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
If you read the title and you’re scratching your head, allow me to explain. Last week I had the pleasure of babysitting a 6-month-old baby girl who I will affectionately refer to as “Baby Girl.” (Clever, no?) Baby Girl and I made fast friends as her 6-year-old big brother and BooBoo were classmates last year. […]
How to Teach Your Tween to do Laundry
June 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
You do a buttload of laundry every week. I know you do because I do too. My kids think nothing of tossing clean, albeit wrinkled laundry, into the dirty clothes hamper when they’re just too lazy to put their laundered, fluffed, and folded clothes away. And while both kids produce a criminal amount of laundry, my tween […]
The Art of Compromise and Summer Learning With Your Tween
June 20, 2013 Leave a Comment
Boy Wonder and I disagree on a lot of things. This time we did it on video for Babble. Ch-ch-check us out on Boy Wonder’s video debut!
6 Reasons Boy Wonder Thinks He *Deserves* a Summer Vacation
June 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
It’s me, Boy Wonder again. Thanks for reading my last blog on why tweens need cell phones. It made me feel good to have you read it because some people thought I was right. I’m on summer vacation but it doesn’t feel like I am. My mom has been making my brother and me do […]
On Having Kids Far Apart in Age
June 17, 2013 Leave a Comment
It’s not easy parenting kids with a substantial age gap between them. It seems like it should be, but it just isn’t.
A 10-Year-Old Gives 10 Reasons Why Every Tween Needs a Cell Phone
June 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
Hi, this is Boy Wonder and I’m 10 years old. My mom is Mommyfriend and I’m writing on her blog to tell parents something very important: kids my age need a cell phone. My parents think kids in elementary school shouldn’t have cell phones unless they really need one. My mom says the only kids […]
7 Family Vacations Your Tween Will Actually Enjoy. No, Really.
June 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
Tweens and teens are hard to please on family vacations. Why? Because they’d probably rather be anywhere else than stuck in a minivan with their family. Relax friend, I’m just telling it like it is. As a parent who’s dealt with her share of sigh-heavy tween protest on vacations in the name of Griswold-esque family […]
12 Simple Ways to Gain and Foster Your Tween’s Trust
June 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
Being a tween isn’t easy – just ask them. From 9 to 12 years old our kids begin the physically taxing and emotionally draining metamorphosis of child to adolescent. Not only are our kids facing the wonder, stress, and excitement that come from bodily changes; they’re overcome by something far less tangible and easily understood […]
13 Summer Jobs for Tweens
June 7, 2013 1 Comment
The older my kids get, the more expensive their tastes become. I don’t have to tell you that teaching our kids the value of money from a young age is vitally important. Quite simply, the very best way to teach our kids financial responsibility is to provide them with the opportunity to earn money for […]
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