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Pull out a card game. Card games are like a pocket swiss knife. They are so small yet have so many benefits /uses. When at the restaurant, at the doctors appointment, kids have transitioned from naps and you are looking for something to maintain that slow tempo – pull out a card game. Our favorite […]

Lately, my husband and I have noticed that our son (6) will occasionally tell little fibs to avoid situations he thinks will get him in trouble or that the reality may be too difficult to confront. This breaks my mamas heart because if you have been here long enough you know I am so huge

I remember growing up occasionally hearing the words, “stop daydreaming.” Looking back now I think what a super power to have in this day and age we live. When we daydream we are actually engaging different parts of our brain by shunting the focus to other areas. Many of the greatest discoveries before and even

So our son (6) is in week two of attending a summer day camp. Needless to say some days have felt like pulling teeth when he gets home and we are trying to find out how the day has been for him. We cannot pinpoint it but he just does not seem too pleased at

I took the above picture one of the days the kids were home and I was working from home as well. It is a time they call “mommy school time.” You see I tinker, well consider seriously consider homeschooling my kids every so often. Actually scrap that I consider offering my kids a home based

Today our 4 year old daughter was invited to a birthday party. It was such a fun and relaxing warm time with great company, great people and food. There was just something so organic about it. The thing that really impressed me was when the mum of the birthday girl went around with this old

In the early years, 1 + 1 = 3. There is a synergistic effect that happens when we do the same thing over and over with kids when they are in those crucial formative years. Their brain neurons are forming associations and patterns based on habit that later take a while to undo. Healthy habits

Today my sons neighborhood friend (6) came by with another boy around the same age and his younger brother. They were as always beaming with joy and full of energy. After lots of zipping and zapping around the house we settled in at the table and begun to all work on a huge lego set.

Often times in conversations with parents on navigating problematic and excess screen time with kids, the word helpless comes up ever so often. There are times as digital parents, the screen-lite / screen free life seems unattainable and just downright impossible. It feels as though we are fighting a loosing battle with big tech and

Did you know when you complete a puzzle you get a squirt of dopamine in the same pathways that hit when you watch an entertaining Tik Tok reel? Dopamine is that “feel good” brain transmitter that is produced when we undertake pleasurable activities – like eating a piece of chocolate etc. The only difference is