Ages + Stages

The last few weeks of the school year are taxing for teachers. Endless paperwork, organizing, taking inventory, cleaning, meetings, testing, and creative planning (try keeping a classroom of kiddos who are hungry for summer on-task and engaged – it’s...

I am by nature an organized planner. With each kid, though, I seem to lose a little bit of my old pre-kid "super type-A" personality. Don't get me wrong, it is not a bad thing—kids have for sure taught...

This post is sponsored by the Children's Courtyard. All opinions are 100% our own! Are you looking to make sure your kids have a blast this summer while keeping their minds sharp at the same time? All of the options...

Teachers have the responsibility of our children Monday through Friday for nine months of the year (this may be less for MDO programs), but still, they work up to 16 hours a day, when you factor in preparing, planning,...

What do you do when your child holds it? Unbeknownst to me, this actually has a medical term! Have you heard of Dysfunctional Voiding/Elimination Pattern? Neither had I, until my youngest had to be seen by a pediatric urologist for...

"Well, it looks like there are definitely THREE babies in there!" the sonogram technician announced, and I was left absolutely speechless. When I had a moment to wrap my mind around the concept of triplets, the first words that...

This post is sponsored by Explore Horizons. All opinions are 100% our own! My oldest is just finishing up Kindergarten, and the amount she has learned this year, the progress she has made... mind=blown. She comes home using words like...

Of the many, many things I never thought I’d have an opinion about before becoming a parent, a passion for the best toddler parks might top the list. I’m not much of an outdoorsy girl—more of a couch-under-a-blanket kinda girl,...