May 24, 2022 A roundup of our best healing crystals and stones content If you love crystals, this post is for you. As you probably already know, we love them, too! Crystals combine our love of nature…
May 14, 2022 Two little words can help kids with their mental health These are tough times for all of us – but possibly hardest of all on children and adolescents. The US Surgeon General recently issued…
May 10, 2022 52 with a 12 year old It’s been exactly ten years since I began this blog and wrote about being 42 with a two-year-old. A lot has changed in the…
May 2, 2022 Journey is the lone girl on an all-boys basketball team Basketball has always been Journey’s favorite team sport. We first played recreational basketball when Journey was nine. A friend asked us to sign up…
April 18, 2022 How to get a neurodivergent tween to clean her room I hate a messy room. When my bedroom is messy, I usually clean it up right away. I know from experience that I like…
April 12, 2022 How to be like a llama and set good boundaries Do you worry about your tween or teen having healthy friendships and romantic relationships? I do – and that’s why I recently attended a…
March 11, 2022 I’ve got 99 parenting problems: TikTok and Snapchat are one I try to live my life without any regrets. If I have one parenting regret, however, it’s that I let our fourth-grader get on…
March 3, 2022 Your tween or teen might love this edgy-cool DIY project Where do your coolest ideas come from? Between Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok and their awesome LGBTQIA+ peers, Journey comes up with some killer ideas for…
February 27, 2022 It’s normal for LGBTQIA+ kiddos’ identities to evolve It’s a brand new year, and that’s not the only new thing at our house. Our beloved kiddo, who came out as nonbinary and…
February 21, 2022 Revel in the red panda experience at the Columbus Zoo We love animals of all kinds in our family. That’s why I’m always very tempted by the Columbus Zoo’s special behind-the-scenes VIP animal encounters….