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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...

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The 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...

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How 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...

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How 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...

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Secret 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...

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How 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...

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15 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...

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This 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...

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The 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...

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Creative 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...

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Movies 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...

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Movies 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...

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How 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...

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Teach 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...

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Gifts 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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Quiet 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...

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65 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...

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7 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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