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April 23, 2022

7 Fun Ways for Kids to Entertain Themselves

Very often kids need to find something to do, and John David is here to give you some ideas for how kids can entertain themselves. Everything below was written straight from my eight-year-old to yours. Only one of them (shopping) requires help. The rest are all things can do for themselves. 7 Fun Ways for Kids to Entertain Yourself #1. Go shopping The first way is to go shopping because if you do, you can find a lot of things you want or need. The same goes for your kids because you can get super fun things, like a mini […]

April 11, 2022

Learning Something New: How to Play Football Lessons from John David

Today I have a guest post from my son. He’s eight, but he is a football expert. John David can rattle off to you every single team in the NFL and who their quarterback is. He’s excited for the upcoming NFL draft to see who will go where. JD also loves to play football, not just watch it. So he’s also anxiously tracking the start date for kid football season sign-ups. We are in the middle of a move, so he had me look up when exactly football sign-ups are in the new town so he does not miss them. […]

April 9, 2022

13 Important Texting Tips Your Teens & Preteens Need To Know

Giving our teens and preteens helpful tips for the world of texting and communicating via phone is so important. We give them this new phone, they are still learning social skills in general anyway, and this opens up a whole new confusing medium for talking to people. Plus, they are usually texting with immature people, and all kinds of problems will come up. Our parents (I’m in my forties) did not have to teach us this. Texting was not a thing back then. We are the first generation of parents to have middle and high schoolers with smart phones, and […]