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11 Easy Ways To Make Kids Feel Loved Everyday
I love my three girls so much it hurts. Some days I walk around bursting with the love I have for them. It’s a physical condition, loving my children, one that fills me with wonder and leaves me in awe of the infinite capacity of the heart. These are the days I wear my love on my sleeve where the girls can plainly see and feel it. I laugh and joke around. I ask for a full report of the day and listen closely as they go into detail. I bake cookies just because. Other days, I’m depleted. Maybe everyone woke up late for school, and we never fully caught…
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The Battle Plan For Combating Family Debt
When you have a child or two, expenses can really rev up. Diapers, rice cereal, pureed kale, child care, pre-school, Mandarin lessons, ski instruction, Disney World, psychotherapy, Kanyeconcerts (tour canceled, phew) and the list goes on. Along with more joy in your life comes its partner—more debt. Deciding to reduce your debt is often smart — and for some people it’s essential. Here’s how: Step 1 Make a list—spreadsheets accepted—of all your debts, ranked from highest interest rate to lowest. Most people don’t know how much they owe. Now you will. (The average household has $17,000 in credit card debt alone.) Step 2 Make a reasonable, achievable goal. How much…
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9 People Share The ABSOLUTE Worst Parenting Advice They’ve Ever Been Given
Whether you just got married, you’re trying to get pregnant, you’re expecting or you already have five kids, you’ve probably been the recipient of some pretty crazy parenting advice. You might think you’ve heard it all, between mother-in-laws and strangers on the street telling you all about the best way to breastfeed, but we’re pretty confident you haven’t heard anything like this. Here are nine REAL pieces of horrible parenting advice people have been given: 1. Don’t let them get ahead “Read your child a thousand books before letting them read one themselves. If they learn to read before they’re in school, they’ll just be bored and disruptive when they…
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7 Things My Partner Can’t Understand About Being A Stay-At-Home Mom
I have an amazing parter of nearly 13 years. He totally gets all the weirdest parts of me, doesn’t question my choices, and whole-heartedly supports my every whim, whether it’s in regards to my career or parenting choices. I’m thankful to have found him at a time in my life when I never expected to fall in love. We do have this one, tiny issue, thought: there are some things my partner can’t understand about being a stay-at-home mom and, honestly, his inability to completely relate kind of bums me out. Being a stay-at-home mom means taking on numerous roles simultaneously, all while trying to maintain some level of sanity…
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10 Marriage Lies You Need To Stop Believing
Marriage can be fragile at times, especially at the beginning stages of your new life together. Learning to navigate through the rough patches can seem like a never-ending maze with too many dead ends. Life can also seem like this when you’ve been married for a long time – even if it’s only been a few years. You start to question whether you married the right person or if your marriage is worth all the hardship. You start to believe the lies that society tells about marriage and pretty soon you’re ready to sign the divorce papers. Before you get to this point, it’s important to know what these lies…
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18 Money Management Tips For Married Couples
“For better or for worse… For richer or for poorer.” This is what most of us promise to our spouse when we pledge ourselves in marriage. But unfortunately, many couples today can’t seem to survive either richer or poorer due to poor money management skills. Some couples stick with their own individual way of managing money, which may or may not mesh with their spouse’s. Others may take the responsibility all on their own shoulders or shove it onto their spouse instead. Some spouses even lie, cheat, and overspend, and cause all trust within the relationship to be a distant memory. As a newly married couple, how can you prevent these…
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Maybe the Best Marriage Therapy Session Ever
Here’s a funny story for ya. After 30 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable – an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured. Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk, and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched – with a…
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8 Empowering Marriage Goals To Work On Together
A relationship is the sum of its parts and that means you can and should take charge over what you can control, i.e. the role that you play within the relationship. I know it is super frustrating at times when you feel like you are putting in more effort than your partner but remember: It’s always better to lead by example. Once you have resolved anything that your spouse can level blame at you for, all that is left is the stuff they need to work on and this then becomes much more evident. Once you have done the work on yourself, you can better support your spouse in achieving anything they…
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15 Signs You Married The Best Husband Ever
Many marriages end because of ingratitude. As time goes by, couples forget to appreciate the little things in life. But being grateful every day helps sweethearts stay happily married. Noticing and appreciating the things your husband does for you helps you see what really matters, rather than focusing on his flaws (which every man has). Your spouse is the most important person in your life, so do your marriage a favor and praise him for all these things he does for you: 1. He trusts you He doesn’t doubt your actions. 2. He is loyal to you He has nothing to hide. You have access to everything in…
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10 Ways To Show Your Husband That You Love Him
Human beings are insecure creatures. Even the most self-assured of us have niggling aspects which we do not like about ourselves. These things are generally quite inconsequential but that is not the case in our minds. In the world that we create and occupy, these flaws in our characters are things that we are scared people will hate. We live in paralyzing fear that if the person we love finds out about them then the relationship is doomed. It is for this reason that it is important to continuously reaffirm your love for one another. Brag about him to your friend while he is around People might say that they…
