4 Easy Ways to Limit Screen Time: Practical Ideas that Work
I hear from parents all the time about their struggles with screen time for kids. They want to reduce or limit screen time, but it’s hard! Here are just a few of the emails I’ve gotten: My son wants to...
View ArticleThe Key to Ending Tech Tantrums Forever
Electronics can be useful. Our kids use them for school, for getting driving directions, for face-timing with distant relatives, to look up a vocabulary definitions, to get access to the library...
View ArticleHow to Spend Dinner Time Without Asking “How Was Your Day?”
Picture the scene: You’ve had a long day. You’re tired, the kids are cranky and you are all desperate to get some food in your bellies. You know you should use this family dinner time as a way to...
View ArticleHow to Read to Differently Aged Children for Great Family Read Aloud Time!
Is family read aloud time sometimes a little bit frustrating because your kids aren’t close in age? Maybe one child wants a board book and the other one wants a chapter book? What if I said you CAN...
View ArticleSecret Parenting Tip: Get Your Kids To Leave You Alone for 10 Minutes
Picture the scene: The dishes are dirty, LEGO is scattered all over the floor, one child is pulling at your leg asking for a cookie, the other is dumping out his drawer looking for a missing superhero...
View ArticleHow to Help a Sore Loser Develop Good Sportsmanship
If you are reading this right now you might be desperate to learn how to help a sore loser. You are all too familiar with this scene: The family is playing a board game, you’ve already implemented all...
View Article15 Inexpensive (or FREE) Fun Family Activities for Black Friday
It’s one of the great mysteries of American life. We’ve just enjoyed a holiday expressing gratitude for family, friends, health and all the other non-material blessings in our lives. At yet the thing...
View ArticleThis Hilarious Item Will Help You Survive Family Gatherings
Do your children feel anxious in large family gatherings? Or maybe you do! Perhaps your children (or you!) are introverts and all the conversation and questions about “how are you doing” rattles the...
View ArticleThe Best Silent Movies to Watch with Your Kids
When your kids ask for screen time, exactly how much begging can you take before you give in? 2 minutes? 10? Do you hold your ground despite their determination to wear you down? I’ve developed a thick...
View ArticleCreative Family Gratitude Activities Kids and Parents will Love
If you’ve been following this blog for a while you know that expressing gratitude as a family is important to me. I’ve introduced family kindness tokens, established a routine of making New Year family...
View ArticleMovies Based on Children’s Books for Families with Tweens
While this website primarily exists to offer screen-free ideas for kids and families, we believe family movie night can be as rewarding as family game night! While we love to watch silent film...
View ArticleMovies Based on Books You Can Watch with Teens
Bonding with your teen can sometimes be challenging, but for taciturn teens one way to connect is by watching films together. This list of movies based on books to watch with teens offers you some...
View ArticleHow to Teach Kids to Stop Slamming the Door – the Easy Way!
If your kids are anything like mine, they slam doors just a little too often. No, they are not teens expressing their displeasure at the rules. They are young kids just going about their life, entering...
View ArticleTeach Kids to Share with the Sharing Ball
How do you teach kids to share? That’s the eternal parenting question. There is a lot of standard “teaching kids how to share” advice out there. I usually goes like this: Praise good sharing...
View ArticleGifts for Families with Too Much Stuff
When you don't know what to give as a gift, it's good to remember that experiences make more meaningful and memorable gifts than material stuff. Stuff clutters your physical and mental space. On the...
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View ArticleQuiet Time Activity Jar Ideas (With Printable List)
A quiet time activity jar, or boredom jar, filled with screen-free activity ideas designed to keep kids quiet and calm is one of the most useful tools parents can have. What Is an Activity Jar? An...
View Article65 Fun Fall Family Activities (with Check List!)
Crisp autumn days, colorful foliage and ripening pumpkins means it's time for fun fall family activities. Fall means classic activities like hay rides, sipping apple cider, jumping in leaf piles and...
View Article7 Lessons Learned While Making Paper Boats
It may surprise you to know, that I struggle greatly with how to encourage my children's artistic development. I'm not a very "good" crafter or artist, but I do enjoy it and I want my boys to find joy...
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