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Parenting Stories
Table Manners: The Social Skills That Get You Through Life! Guest Post From Grace Of @Blessed_Element! #parenting
Table Manners: Table etiquette may include: Which utensil to use. Your bread plate is on your left. Food is passed to the right The proper way to eat soup Behaving with manners at the table includes knowing how to interact with the others eating with you. It is at the table where my children were […]
Happy Birthday! Today I am 60! See My Adult Years in Pictures! w/Linky!
Happy Birthday!
Parenting Playlist: Curated To Help Us All Raise Our Teens! #ParentingPlaylist @parentandteen #Ad
Parenting Playlist They grow up so fast! That infant I adopted at birth is now in 10th grade! A high schooler! And also a teenager. Remember the terrible twos? Now I see those were the easy days! These years are much tougher. Our poor kids have so much more to deal with then we ever […]
School Buses in NYC Will Be Getting GPS This Year! Parents Can Track Their Kids in Realtime! @HereComesTheBus #HereComesTheBus
This is a compensated post on behalf of Here Comes The Bus. The NYC City Council passed a law in January that requires school buses to be equipped with GPS for parents to be able to track their children’s progress, to and from school. The solution needs to be in place by the next school […]
Dove Men+Care is Not Just The Title Sponsor at the #Dad2Summit, They Are Also Incredible Advocates For Dads! @DoveMenCare #PaternityLeavePledge
Dove Men+Care This is the seventh year that Dove Men+Care has been the title sponsor at the Dad 2.0 Summit conference, and they are a huge help to the dad community and this way, and many others. Firstly, they sponsor a full barber shop at the conference where us dads can get pampered! It is […]
College Savings That You Manage Seamlessly With The U-Nest App! @u_nest_future #Ad
College Savings With The U-Nest App! My son was born in 2003 and as new parents, we were not thinking about his future, but instead just about how many diapers we were going to need for the next week! I accidentally stumbled upon information regarding college savings plans the next year, when talking to an […]
Having The Marriage & Fidelity Conversation With Your Kids!
This big gay man believes marriage is a sacred institution. Therefore, I believe it is a subject that must be discussed with our son, as I believe everyone should discuss this with their children. I met Peter on April 12. Four months later, my “friend” did not move in, I did not just get a […]
Pregnant Families Alert! @BigCityMoms Throws The #BiggestBabyShower, And You Need To Attend!
Pregnant Families Alert! I attend the NY edition of the Biggest Baby Shower presented by Big City Moms, as often as possible. This is the premiere event for expecting parents, this is your pregnant families alert! This event is a must for everyone who is pregnant, thinking of having a baby, or a parent. All […]
Happy Throw Back Halloween! w/Linky! #Halloween #HappyHalloween #TBT
Valuing My Independent Child With His Additional Card from American Express!
This post was created in partnership with American Express. The timing of this credit card training, and the extra independence it offered our teenager, was all a perfect set-up for his first real job. He is spending the second half of the Summer working for his Uncle, in my brother’s landscaping business. He has been […]
Then & Now: The Angelic Toddlers We Raised Are Now In Their Teens! #Ad @parentandteen #ThenAndNowKids #CPTC
This post is sponsored by the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. All opinions (and memories!) are my own. Then He was a helper, he was bright and attentive, and he would occasionally spout some pearls of wisdom that I wrote down and saved. When he was four: ” I have hearts coming out of […]
Paul Prefers #BackToSchool Shopping @JCPenney! #AllAtJCP #MyJCP #Ad #fashion #fashionblogger
This is a compensated post for JCPenney. Here in New York City we are still two full weeks away from the start of school! Now that I have a national network on Facebook I still find it shocking that folks will be heading to their first school vacation when we will just be starting! I […]