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The Best Educational Gifts for Kids

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The BEST EDUCATIONAL GIFTS FOR KIDS that will not only stimulate their minds but also provide hours of fun playtime. Feel great about these gifts because there are many benefits of educational toys!Best Educational toys for kids. Benefits of educational toys. For Christmas and birthdays, we love to give our kiddos educational gifts. As home-schoolers, these gifts can be great learning resources to use every day. The reason we LOVE educational gifts is that they provide hours of activities that make learning fun.

Kid-Approved Educational Gifts

Whether you are a homeschooling family or not, giving your child an educational gift is a win-win situation. Below, we are sharing some of our favorite educational gifts for kids, some we own and some we have on our Christmas list. [Read more…]

All MOMS WORK: ENDING THE “MOM LABELS”

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It’s time to end the Mommy Wars once and for all! We need more support and less MOM JUDGEMENT.

Mom vs mom. Mom judgement. Ending Mom labels

We have all heard the labels that mothers are given: SAHM, WAHM, Working Mom, Single Mom, PTA Mom, Homeschool Mom, Crunchy Mom, Breastfeeding Mom, Bottle-feeding Mom, Young Mom, Old Mom…I could go on and on, but you get the picture. As moms, we are labeled. Then comes all the “this label vs. this label.” When the whole truth of it is, we are just MOMS. If you are a mother, it doesn’t matter if you stay at home with your kids or work outside the home, YOU WORK! ALL MOMS WORK!

Working Mom Vs. Stay At Home Mom

We don’t need the labels to prove what we do and don’t do. WE WORK HARD EVERYDAY. After all, we are raising humans! What could be harder than that?  24/7 our mind is on our children. Our mental lists of our children’s meals, appts, school, projects, extra-curricular activities and more, is boundless. Our brains are constantly trying to keep up, while our bodies are doing all the physical demands that are needed to raise children. No one knows how hard we work, more than we do. [Read more…]

The Back-to-School Silent Killer: Pediatric Cardiomyopathy

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Childrens Cardiomyopathy

September is Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Awareness Month. One of the reason’s September was chosen, is because Pediatric Cardiomyopathy is also considered the “Back-to-School Silent Killer”. Some even call it the “death by exercise” disease. Many children suffer from it, with their parents and even doctors not knowing until it is too late. That is why there needs to be more awareness to prevent the worst.

Maybe you have never heard of cardiomyopathy. There was a time I had never heard of it either. Then there was this sudden moment, that my whole world was shaken by the cardiomyopathy diagnosis of my baby.

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