In this week’s episode, we are tackling that sticky subject of finances, especially once you start having children. We offer our own personal struggles and frustrations as well as tips on your finances when considering starting a family, expanding your family, or even maintaining a household budget. Hopefully this episode will give you some helpful tips and well as encourage you (and us) to be more mindful with your money for the future.
Show notes:
Preparing for a Baby? Tackle These 15 Financial Tasks
10 Tips To Manage Your Household Budget
Cost to Raise a Child
Cost of Raising a Child
How Does Having a Third Baby Affect Your Family Finances?
Dumb Ways to Spend Money on Your Kids
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New Hampshire -Ice Castles
Two Arrested in Buffet Brawl Over Crab Legs
Tag: children
Raising Physically Active Kids
This week we decided to discuss how we as moms keep our kids physically active and how to motivate them to stay physically active. We offer our own experiences as kids and how we are currently motivating and continue to motivate our kids. In this digital world, this is a challenging time for parents to keep their kids interested in activities but also moving them away from the screens and outside. We hope we offer some great tips to you and a few laughs as well.
Show notes:
Encouraging your child to be physically active
Motivating Kids to be Active
11 Ways to Encourage Your Child to be Physically Active
Tips for Getting Started
Random stuff:
Dove is offering $5,000 grants for dads without access to paid paternity leave
Wyoming district will open 1-student school next fall
Police: Pot smokers find caged tiger in abandoned house
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Traveling with Kids – Follow up
Hello listeners. We had a wonderful listeners reach out to us to provide more information on traveling with children. Here is an article from Katja Kukovic at WorldWide Boat, 15 tips for stress-free family travel.
Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle
We’re posting a fun and engaging crossword puzzle from Education.com that you can work on with your children. Education.com offers a variety of themes and templates to create different worksheets for specific needs. Some types of worksheets include:
- Maze
- Word search
- Word search with images
- Crossword puzzle
- Word scramble
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Division
- Multiplication
- Spelling Test
- Matching words to images
- Word Tracer
Sail away to learn about figurative language with this crossword puzzle worksheet. Visit Education.com for more language arts activities!
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Discipline for Children – Part 2
Today, we continue our discussion on discipline for children. In this second part, we discuss corporal punishment and positive reinforcement techniques. We also discuss the ups and downs of raising a strong-willed child and how discipline and punishment are a little for those children.
Show notes:
Spanking / Corporal Punishment
Parenting the Strong Willed Child: 5 Discipline Strategies
Positive Reinforcement
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Discipline for Children – Part 1
This week’s episode is the first half of our discussion of the different types of discipline for children. We discuss pros and cons for the different types of discipline, what potentially works better, and why some types of discipline do not work. Disclaimer: This discussion is not meant to pass judgment or for us to be “on our soap box”. We wanted to have a real discussion about the difficulties of disciplining children and what could work best.
Show notes:
How to Discipline Your Child
The Mental Impact of Discipline
Out of Control Children
Behavior Management Strategies
Random stuff:
Teen awkwardly mistakes girlfriend’s thermometer for positive pregnancy test
Mom horrified to discover mother-in-law changed baby’s name while she was asleep
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Raising Kids in the Digital Age
The world is a lot different from when we were kids. Technology was mostly for fun or schoolwork (Oregon Trail!) but now, children are immersed in technology from birth with smartphones, streaming services, tablets, computers, etc. So how do you monitor and connect with your kids in this technology/digitally-driven world? This week, we break down some advice and offer tips to raising children in this new world and how we are trying our best to not let ourselves get sucked into technology as well. A fun mocktail/cocktail to share with you all and of course good random crap too! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Show links:
Description of the iGen Generation
Online Safety
Teens and Social Media
Tips for Parents in the Digital Age
How to raise a happy kid in the digital age
Random stuff:
Woman Drove Drunk on Vanilla Extract
Man Hospitalized After Injecting Own Semen To Treat Back Pain
Man Says Emotional Support Alligator Helps His Depression
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Mom Charities
This week, we discuss some of the charities that are near and dear to our hearts that helps out mothers and their children. We discuss the history of these charities and what services and resources they provide to mothers. We are passionate about this topic and hope you enjoy our discussion and if you are able to check out these charities and see if you can help out in whatever capacity you can. Remember, we are all on this crazy, roller coaster of motherhood together!
Charities:
March of Dimes
Every Mother Counts
7 Charities Helping Moms
Carry the Future
Good+ Foundation
Global Midwife Education Foundation (GMEF)
Women in Need (WIN)
Circle of Health International
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What do children worry about?
Happy New Year! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and new year and we are excited to jump into 2019 with new content and new listeners.
This episode we are discussing the different worries children have by their age group. We primarily focus on the younger ages up to the tween ages, but offer additional information below to those who have older children. We were both amazed and surprised what children do truly worry about and why at these young ages. We hope this information is helpful to you as you navigate your way through these different stages with your children.
Show links:
What do children worry about and how can grown-ups help
What children worry about
What causes a child to be worried or anxious
Infographic: Child Therapist’s List of Top Worries by Age
KidsHealth.org
Anxioustoddlers.com
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David Schimmer’s look alike arrested
20 predictions about the year 2020 made a long time ago
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Favorite Children’s Christmas Movies
It’s that time of year where we all snuggle up on the couch and watch our favorite Christmas movies with our family. We discuss some of our favorite Christmas movies and what we like about them and how they make us feel during this time of year. Some of our favorites include: Elf, A Christmas Story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. So sit down with some hot chocolate (spiked or not) and listen to our conversation about some of the best Christmas movies.
Also, this is our last episode for 2018, so Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and we wish you all a Happy New Year!
Show links:
Best Christmas Movies from Good Housekeeping
Random stuff:
Dutch court rejects man’s request to be 20 years younger
Cowbell dispute rings out in tranquil Bavarian town
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