Five Ways To Spend More Quality Time With Family

Being a mom is a full-time gig, no matter how you organize your life. Even if you go to work during the day, you’re still doing it partly to support your children.  Pexels – CC0 License Because of this, you can get lost in the job. Every waking moment becomes a struggle to provide for your kids – financially, emotionally, and spiritually. Over time, you can sometimes forget about yourself entirely, focusing only on the immediate needs of your dependents. And this can go on for years.  As parents, we often imbibe the idea that we need to be perfect. We have to meet a certain standard that we set for ourselves, otherwise, we feel guilty that we’re not doing right by our kids. recognize…

Pixabay – CC0 Licence As soon as you become a mom, you resign yourself to the fact that you’re going to be overbearing. Well, better that than letting them make mistakes that haunt your kids for the rest of their lives, right? Of course, the older your children get, the more it hurts when they look at you as if you’re, like, so totally not cool! And, moms know better than anyone how that resentment in kids’ eyes can cut to the bone. If only you could be protective and cut them some slack. Well, you can if you follow the advice underneath. 4 ways to be a protective mom without being an overbearing mom Track Them Stealthily It’s one thing tracking them without their…

Image Source Of course, all children will have their individual personalities and characters. This is nature. But there are also a number of different qualities that we want to instil into our children to help them grow into the most well rounded adults possible. While it won’t necessarily be possible to make a shy child the most bold and outgoing person in the room, there are steps that you can take to teach them self confidence. While you may not be able to make an extremely chatty child the greatest listener, you can show them to care for others’ opinions and to take in as much of what others are saying as possible and to take these words into consideration. So, what different qualities may…

Image Credit: Pexels, Free to Use Licence.  Money management is one of the many important skills that parents must teach their children and will greatly influence how they grow up to use their money in later life. Many parents tend to leave conversations about money until the later years of their children’s development, usually during their teenage years when they start to have more independence, but it has been proven that children are in fact picking up signals about money and how to use it from a much earlier age, and so it’s important to be bringing money management into the conversation far earlier than many parents expect. So in this article, we’ll discuss some of the ways in which you can help your children…

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay  It’s inevitable, at some point your child is going to ask you some very awkward questions, some embarrassing, some you just don’t know the answer, others you don’t want to answer and some you just don’t know how to respond. Not only this, but it’s unlikely that your child will know when it’s an appropriate time to ask a particular question. Their innocence is adorable, but it can also make you go slightly red in the face when they ask you loudly when you’re at the check out in the supermarket, and they can often leave you a little stumped at times. Young children have what seem like the most straightforward questions, but they are also the most profound ones,…