According to the annual prom survey conducted by Visa, parents making less than $50,000 per year intend to spend nearly 10-percent more on prom than those in higher income brackets. Prom costs an average of $1,139, with families in the northeastern U.S. planning to spend the most on the one-night event. Though prom is an [...]
Our children are the digital generation from cell phones to iPods , the there is the social media craze of Twitter, Facebook,YouTube. Our children are connected 24 hours a day often being distracted from school work, chores and even carrying on a face to face conversation. Then there are the safety concerns of who are [...]
Don’t toss those won out TOMS sitting in your closet. Get ready for Summer with this fun re-purpose idea of transforming your TOMS shoes into sandals. Not only is this idea from MidWestern Thread being frugal with our worn out items it is a fun way to add a new pair of shoes to [...]
Instilling a sense of responsibility, both financial and social, is one of the most effective ways of avoiding the pitfalls of dealing with an entitled teenager. Kids who work to pay for the things they want learn not only the basics of earning and saving, but also the very valuable lesson that nothing in life [...]
According to a survey completed by Pew Internet and Life Project, 20% of kids’ ages 6 to 11 have cell phones, whereas 75% of kids’ ages 11 to 17 have them. How do you know when it is the right time to get your child a cell phone? And if you do get your child [...]
Written by Jodi at Meaningful Mama Kids often don’t have the words to know how they are feeling. This lack of understanding leads to great discouragement and an internal struggle that can often lead to a tantrum or angry outburst. In the book, “Brain Rules for Babies,” by John Medina, he says children’s bodies “can [...]
Do this, do that, you need to, don’t do that, and what are you doing can often be the only words we as moms feel we say all day to our children. Often leaving us feeling as though we spend our day ordering them around rather then encouraging them. Do you ever feel this way? [...]
Have you ever wondered if leaving your child or even young teenager in the car alone was against the law? I have. Today this very question was posted on my local PATCH online news and the answer was given by a Washington State Patrol officer. If you have tweens and/or teens like I do, who [...]
How quickly they grow up and become independent, which is why I am taking full advantage of the fact that both my 11 and 13 year old boys still enjoy our nightly bed time stories. Though I’m no longer reading them Winnie the Pooh, Veggie Tales or stories out of their Bible story books I [...]
It can happen in a blink of the eye – we get distracted, the cell phone rings, a text comes thru, we look at the passengers in our car, we reach across the car for an item or even poor road conditions from ice to snow can create us to loose control of our vehicles [...]
