I spontaneously started an "I Love You More Than" game with my 3 year-old the other night. I said, "Kai, I love you more than candy." A sly smile spread across his face and he replied, "I love you more than candy!" The big kids overheard this variation of "I love you to … [Read more...]
Enter Our Spring Story Contest for Kids!
Super Smarty Pants and The Inquisitive Mom are welcoming in Spring with a Writing Contest for Kids! If you are between the ages of 5 and 12, you are invited to submit astory starring your favorite animal or pet in our Spring Story Contest for Kids. Your story can be fiction or … [Read more...]
How to Stay (Happily) Married with Children
The popular story we all grow up on goes like this: You'll fall in love, get married, then complete the circle of love and joy with children. I mean, the happiest couples you know have children, right? Right? Jennifer Senior's new book, All Joy and No Fun, explores the effects … [Read more...]
Parenting with Depression: 7 Tips for Hard Days
I wish I could say that depression never affects my parenting; that a blue day for me never means one for my kids. I wish I could say that I have never relied on the TV to entertain when I barely had the energy to get up or that I have never hid in the bathroom crying because I … [Read more...]
25 Activities for Girls that Think Outside of the (Pink) Box
I can't be the only parent longing to kick open the pink gender box placing limitations on activities for girls.How many sewing projects, bracelets, and art projects can one girl make? My daughter is curious, creative, and experimental. In many ways, she is still an open book; … [Read more...]
