making space for creativity
Teaching your children the basics of reading, writing, and math, whether they go to school or stay at home, is one of the great joys (and frustrations!) of parenting. Now that both of my children are 7 and 10 and can happily sit and (1) read silently for an hour at a time, (2) write…
How to create a capsule wardrobe for kids: 20 tips and example lists for Ages 0-10
This is my 5th year of participating in the fun Instagram hashtag #onedayhh, where you take and post a picture an hour of your ordinary day. Thankfully, my kids still think me taking a ton of pictures of them is really fun, and they were pretty patient with my mommy paparazzi (more than my husband…
Last week, I was chatting with a friend at the park about her upcoming second baby when she asked me to weigh in on whether to try and potty-train her first child who is about to turn two. Yes! I said, that’s the perfect time to potty-train. I gushed enthusiastically about how great it is…
Last year I put together a list of tried and true favorites for one-year-olds. That list could have been titled “Lily approved books” because she is considerably more picky than Jackson was (or the other two-year-old children I’ve nannied) about which books she does and doesn’t like. And that “discerning taste” continued into her second…