This is a sponsored post Even though April is Financial Literacy Month, financial literacy is a topic that requires ongoing conversations to impart different lessons at each age and stage to teach kids necessary lifelong skills. I remember learning how to write checks and balance a checkbook as part of my financial literacy education as…
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6 Ways the CVS Pharmacy App Makes Caring for Sick Kids Easier #MyCVSApp
This is a sponsored post We know there’s an app for everything but my favorite apps are the ones that help me streamline my life. Earlier this month I shared 6 reasons why I love using the CVS Pharmacy app but it wasn’t until Emily got sick with strep this week that I realized how…
Taking Kids to See Annie: 6 Things to Do Before You Go (+ 3 for After the Show)
The national tour of Annie opened last night at Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre and it’s a perfect way to introduce elementary ages to award winning musicals that have longer performance times than family theater venues. Originally based on Harold Gray’s popular comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, the story and songs of Annie are delightfully familiar to…
How to Prepare for Watching He Named Me Malala with Your Kids #withMalala
As a former teacher, it was hard enough for me to come to terms that some of my first graders lived in a house without books and other school supplies needed to complete homework but it’s incredible to think that 62 million girls around the world are not in school. Since being shot by the…
Important Conversations to Have with Kids About Managing Their Digital Reputations
This post is sponsored by Domain.ME Have you Googled yourself recently? If not, it’s probably a good idea to do so right now to see what comes up. Go ahead, I’ll wait. If you have a common name, add your employer, hometown or other distinguishing factors about yourself to make the search more accurate. What…
Important Conversations to Have with Kids About Being Safe in the Digital World
Today is Internet Safety Day and while it brings awareness about important issues regarding online and digital safety, these are topics that should be on our radar each and every day. Each day brings new technology innovations that we rejoice over. Smaller, lighter devices with better cameras, more storage, and the ability to download new…
How to Ring in the New Year Without Lying to Your Kids #StreamTeam
How does your family say goodbye to one year and welcome in the next? Chances are it depends on how old your kids are. With two tweens, there’s a stronger likelihood that they’ll be wide awake to ring in the New Year when the clock strikes twelve but in their younger years, both kids fell fast…
GoNoodle for Apple TV: Productive Screen Time Encourages Kids to be Active with Short Safe Videos (w. giveaway)
What do you do with antsy kids who have energy to burn and don’t want to bundle up to go outside in the winter months? Finding creative ways to keep kids active inside can be tricky but it doesn’t have to be thanks to GoNoodle for Apple TV. A popular tool to provide brain breaks…
6 Simple Ways to Teach Kids to Give on Giving Tuesday & Throughout the Year
Last night as I closed our book, turned off the light, and gave Thomas some goodnight kisses, he asked me what I was going to work on once he was asleep. “Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday,” I told him. I started to explain but he interrupted me. “I know. It’s when you buy things that help…
Teaching Kids Digital Responsibility with Resources from AT&T
This is a sponsored post Last weekend I had the opportunity to co-host a brunch for fellow blogging friends (aka local social media influencers) with AT&T to have a conversation about how we use our phones and since we’re all moms of tween girls, I seized this opportunity to include our tween daughters. I know…
