I have read enough John Irving novels to know it is impossible to construct a figurative protective dome around one’s family.
As our sons, Evan, 5, and Sean, 3, experience more of the world and its [...]

So, like everybody else who made a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, I had started improvising on the snacks. With a weakness for anything sweet & salty, I  immediately started diving into trail mixes [...]

Before the kids, before the marriage, before the careers and even before our first kiss, we all create for ourselves a “vision” of what we want in life.  “What do you want to be when [...]

Boston’s Early Childhood blog had a great post recently. It has to do with how children and adults answer four simple questions. The majority of adults get the answers wrong. Curious? Here are the questions:
1. [...]

My name is unusual.  I have never met another person named Rhaea.  I typed my name into Facebook and there are 10 other women there with my name.  But I have never met them.  So [...]

Our Guest Blogger is Kim Covert from Dexter, Michigan. Kim is a certified teacher turned stay-at-home mom of four great kids. She is married to her high school sweetheart. She also has a [...]

Apps! Apps! Apps! What’s the big deal about Apps?

It’s still January, so Happy New Year to you! January is a time when many people start to think about what they’re going to do differently this year. Often those thoughts go to [...]

With the New Year fast approaching everyone is thinking about those yearly resolutions. They make resolutions to make a fresh start for the New Year, to change old habits or to create new positive ones. [...]

You may feel like you’re on information overload sometimes with so many options –– good old word of mouth with friends, families and neighbors, Facebook, Twitter, television, radio, newspapers, the Internet, healthcare providers, childcare providers, [...]