Regardless of how attached you are to your main man, it’s a good thing for both of you to spend some time apart.  Even if you love him more than life itself and think that every event is better with him there, it is a positive event for you and for your family and friends to spend time without him.
In the last year both my brother and sister got married.  Now that they are no longer single it is a rare occasion that my parents and I get to spend time with them without their new spouses.  Although I love …read more

Let’s talk about the idea of family bed sharing. Is it a means to forming strong family bonds or a way to ensure that kids will never sleep in their own beds without a struggle?
In our house, the rule of thumb is that once the kids are weaned to a bottle, they are expected to sleep in their own rooms. The parent’s bed is only for the parents. This, in part, is due to the fact that my husband has serious back problems and cannot bear to sleep in compromising positions. We also share the belief that our bed is the place where we …read more

 
When is the last time you became a kid for the day? One of the things that Jo Frost taught us, during her time with our family, was to take the opportunity to make play a priority. I know that I’ve said this before, but I cannot emphasize enough, the joy that kids get out of seeing their parents take off their parent suits and be a kid for the day. No matter the age, your child will always remember the day that mom or dad became one of them.
If you have little ones, the most important thing to remember is to get …read more