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Every parent, if they're honest, will admit that a particular stage of parenthood was especially challenging. For me, it wasn't infancy. It was hardest for me when the kids were in that in-between stage.
Trying to drum up business during a particularly slow season can lead to some unconventional ideas. Just ask Bob Barrett, who decided to make some ext...
Birthday party themes used to be age appropriate. The ante keeps getting upped, and the emphasis is no longer on the child and his birthday. It's "Look what I did for my child".
Lavish birthday parties are a thing of the past. In the last decade, birthday parties had started to make a statement about the family throwing them, and less about a simple celebration. Now it's back to the birthday child and basics. Here are some adjustments we are making.
Dr. Bill Doherty, a therapist and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the University of Minnesota, decided children's birthday part...
We are robbing our children (and ourselves) of the real value of birthdays and gift-giving: the recognition that it is an expression of how much we care about the people close to us.
These older girls, these Queens of the Indoor Play Space, these Birthday Party Divas, these Holy Sisters of the Big Slide, fully fascinated him. I think he thought he was one of them.