Parenting

Trying to find time for family dinner around sports and other extracurricular activities? Making time to eat dinner as a family is no easy task, especially when children participate in after-school activities. Between work, school, and everything else on the calendar, families have more than enough demands on their time. Family dinners, however, are really …

A little insight into why I write this eco-friendly family living blog and what I hope to accomplish by sending it out into the world. Writing a blog is kind of a weird thing. If you’re not in “the blogging world”, you probably think it’s a weird thing too. Most people in my life don’t …

Don’t forget to capture the everyday memories that make life with your family so unique and special. Read on for several tips to easily document family memories at home. As we head into the holiday season, we’ll be spending a lot more time with family and friends. On vacation or special days, we remember to …

Last week, I read an article about Grandparents in the Correspondent, a subscription-based journalism outlet that prioritizes deep and thoughtful essays on complex topics over the latest clickbait of the moment.  As we’ve settled into the pandemic, we’ve cast grandparents into seclusion as “vulnerable” and lost sight of their essential value in our communities, to our …

Ready to use picture books to help your children learn about important issues like climate change and social justice? After several years of reading these types of books to my boys with intention, here are a few things I’ve learned about how to share them with our kids, where to find the books, and what …

With so many of us educating our kiddos from home, we definitely need some systems. Here is a simple schoolwork schedule to stay organized and complete each day’s assignments. Like so many around the world whose lives have taken an interesting turn due to the spread of coronavirus, today is our first day of transitioning …

What better way to fall in love with nature than spending time immersed in it? Visiting National Parks to see some of nature’s most glorious works implores us to better protect our environment, but we can’t (nor should we) all travel around the world visiting every National Park to connect with nature. Here are lots …

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and The Coca-Cola Company. All opinions are mine alone. #HonestKidsRecycle #CollectiveBias Have you seen our landfills lately? If not, they’re getting rather large and rather full. We need a plan to change the growth trajectory of trash production in the United States, and Honest Kids is …