Mom in Earnest

Stop Buying Everything Your Kids See in the Store – No. 2

In our last post, we talked about how you can stop buying everything your kids see in the...

Dread going to the store with your kids for reasons other than having to be an octopus, with...

In the last post, we’ve looked at some of the things that make emotions and problem solving not such...

Learning to solve problems is a life-long skill. Unless you are one of those people whose ability to...

Before we plunge into the discussion of how to run errands with children, I confess that running errands...

Shopping with disagreeable children in a store can be unpleasant or just downright distressing. For those of us...

The little cavemen that are our children aren’t particularly adept to polite and civil conversation, something we pretty...

First it’s toys. Next it’s clothes. Then it’s food stuff, crayons, books, junk, and on and on and...

While the theatrics of leave-taking is emotionally draining at the least, the more devastating effect is that it...

“It’s time to go now!” That dreaded announcement somehow always throws your child into a frenzy, accompanied by...