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Parenting Pointers: Parenting with Confidence

Motherhood Moments

Parenting is a difficult and rewarding task that comes with many challenges. In this pioneering book, “How To Do- Parenting With Confidence," Author Vanessa Kahlon offers a refreshingly honest and practical guide to the highs and lows of parenting. Why can it be helpful to have some "parenting one-liners?"

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Our 2023 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

Did you make 2023 financial goals ? We decided on one big audacious financial goal for the year, and it’s a doozy! The last time we wrote numbers-driven financial goals was 2019. That was the year that we made the goal of paying off the last of our non-mortgage debts and we achieved it by September of that year.

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Parenting Pointers: Peaceful Parenting

Motherhood Moments

How can parents best meet the complex needs of their children in these complicated times? Giving and receiving the trust, communication, cooperation, respect, and joy that every parent and child deserves, ultimately allows our children to become the leaders our future so desperately needs.A What is Peaceful Parenting?

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Parenting Pointers: ASD and Small Steps

Motherhood Moments

Great accomplishments and long-term goals are not achieved overnight. Emphasize that learning and growing requires trying new things and that success comes from small steps to a long-term goal. Encourage goal setting and mapping out a plan for achieving the goals. It takes a village!

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Parenting Pointers - Mother of All Baby Showers

Motherhood Moments

Events remain focused on the needs of expectant and new parents, and as current events, health trends and baby gear changes, MOABS has evolved too. I wanted to connect expectant and new parents in a unique, fun celebratory way, for aka adults-only and in the evening, to resources, experts, education and each other.

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Parenting Pointers: Helping Our Teens

Motherhood Moments

A shocking new report by the CDC confirms what many parents already suspected: Teenage girls are in crisis. Most parents receive news like this with a sinking feeling and a sense of dread. Young people face a cauldron of pressures their parents can’t relate to. The question is, regardless of gender, how do you reach your teens?

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Parenting Pointers: Divorce and the Effects on Children - How Parents Can Make the Biggest Difference

Motherhood Moments

Parents know children are the most important equation in the separation, but somehow they oftentimes get caught in the middle of the “war.” The answer is with love , honest (age appropriate) communication , and successful co-parenting. Let’s review: Love: As parents we know that children need love in their lives more than anything.

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