10 Things I Have Done Against the Advice of Experts
I let my three year old have a bottle and a pacifier at night because he needs them to calm his brain and sleep I did not wake up my newborn to feed her every three hours because I needed the sleep...
View Article10 Best Organic Foods to Buy
In an ideal world all the fruits and vegetables we ate would be harvested from the ground we lived on. We would grow it ourselves with seeds collected in the fall from the crops of the previous year....
View Article10 Unusual Alternatives to Halloween Candy And 1 Way to Limit Candy Overload
Here are some weird and wonderful options to the $2.3 billion American spend on Halloween candy, and they won’t contribute toward cavities or obesity in kids! I have linked most of the alternatives,...
View ArticleThe Best of Mudpie Mama Posts 2013
You are a free-ranging group with wide interests! You enjoy making homemade Valentines over store-bought cards. You are looking for ways to get your kids outdoors even in the heart of winter, and...
View ArticleBeyond the Refrigerator Door: 10 Ways to Save Kid’s Art
Don’t get buried under your kid’s art, get clever. I knew a mother who discreetly crumpled a few of her daughter’s many drawings for starting a fire in the wood stove. The phone rang and she closed the...
View Article10 Things to Do to Raise Grateful Children
by Paula Solis Krock Raising grateful children has long been a personal goal of mine, and I am not alone. I feel pretty confident that the vast majority of parents are with me when I say, I don’t...
View Article10 Easy and 1 Hard Thing to Remember About Raising Kids
Here are 10 easy things and one hard this mama learned about raising children into a meaningful life: 1. Remember the four A’s of relationships: Attention, Affection, Appreciation, and Acceptance 2....
View ArticleThe Power of Green Time: 10 Ways to Play Outside
Watch kids play outside with no rules or coaches to govern their behavior and you will see the magical unfolding of bodies swinging, stooping, throwing, racing, twirling in space. A study by the...
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