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Fostering Healthy Body Acceptance In Your Teen Daughter
Teaching a young girl how to accept and love her body starts with her mother. You will be a mirror to either her strengths or her insecurities. It's up to you to decide which she will reflect on. She will already be bombarded with the unattainable world of filters, advertising, TikTok videos, and the latest internet celebrity. She will hear the gossip of peers calling out the too fat, too thin, too tan, not tan enough, too tall, too short, anything too much, making her feel less than. But you momma, can lessen the damage of these things.
Never Criticize Yourself in Her Presence
Momma I'm with you. I've got pounds to lose. There...
Give Your Family a Worldly Experience: Host a High School Exchange Student
Are you searching for a way to expose your children to different cultures or add a little vibrancy to your house? Volunteering to host an exchange student is a great way to experience different cultures and it offers numerous benefits for you and your family. Now is a great time to select a student to host for the upcoming school year. Doing so will allow you to start communicating with the student and preparing for his or her arrival.
Who can host an exchange student?
From traditional families to single parents and empty-nesters, host families come in many different forms. Host families have high school-aged children, toddlers, or no children...
Embrace Your Child’s Superhero
Every child is a superhero. They can’t fly or have superhuman strength (Mohammad Ali came close as a baby). But they’re good at so many things that sometimes we, as adults, don’t pay attention to. That doesn’t make it any less amazing. Their pride brings so much joy. Their joy brings adults so much happiness.
Here are 5 ways I celebrate my superheroes achievements ::
The amazing flips. I can’t be the only one who screams with excitement and claps when their kid does a half flip. They’re also so proud. And it’s contagious. Maybe the half flip roll it IS the best thing you’ve ever seen.
The beginning-to-read reader who stops at every word but is...
2024 Red Stick Mom Teacher of the Year :: Nominate YOUR Favorite Teacher TODAY!
There are not enough ways to say THANK YOU for all that our beloved teachers have done for us and our children, especially over the last few years. Thank you for your flexibility, thank you for you putting in extra hours, thank you for coming up with creative lesson plans to keep your students engaged, thank you for spending your hard-earned money on classroom supplies. Thank you for your unending devotion to our children and our families. One small way we thought we could extend our appreciation is to honor one very deserving teacher with our 2024 Red Stick Mom Teacher of the Year title!
Whether s/he...
Listen To Them
If your kids are like mine, they don't stop talking until they go to sleep. They go a mile a minute. There’s never a dull moment. You can ask me anything about superheroes and Sonic the Hedgehog. I know all about Cody’s dog in Jacob’s class. He was bitten by a snake this weekend! I know Jack’s friend AJ loves chocolate dinner mints. My kids never stop talking to me.
Most of the talk is about their favorite superheroes, planets, and monster trucks. But sometimes they tell you something you really need to know. It’s usually layered under other more mundane topics. A game of Would You Rather reveals so much.
If you keep listening to them, you’ll...
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Mardi Gras From the Perspective of a Krewe Dancer
Mardi Gras From the Perspective of a Krewe Dancer
It's that time of year we have been working towards all year long. Preparing three to...
