Does holiday gift giving get out of hand at your house? As parents it can be so easy to become carried away. We want our kids to have the best at the holidays. Which seems like a good thing. Until it isn’t so good. We started only giving 4 things for Christmas because we realized …
It wasn’t long ago that I felt disenchanted with our advent calendar. The holidays are stressful. Instead of building anticipation about the coming holiday, our advent calendar simply dispensed bits of chocolate to my already sugared-out kids. Each day my kids ate their chocolate and I felt a little more frazzled as Christmas day approached. …
It’s so easy for kids to accumulate things. It seems like they get toys, trinkets, and “stuff” for every little event. To combat this intense focus of getting more stuff, our family has started doing more experience gifts. We want our kids to know that not every valuable thing is something you can hold in …
Do you ever feel as if your kids are on a hamster wheel of new toys? They get something new only to discard it when the next shiny thing comes along. It can feel expensive and wasteful to pour so much time and money into gifts that will be forgotten in days. In contrast, experience …
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Thanksgiving is the time of year that we turn our thoughts inward to focus on gratitude. As a mother I want my kids to understand and learn to express gratitude. Gratitude is a skill that we learn with practice. That is why I love to take time during the month of November and help my …
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