Small choices can make a big difference. Feels like every year after the holiday chaos fades, after we clean up, haul out and find our way back to some…
Holidays can be some of the most miserable times for parents who are recently divorced. Shuffling the kids between parents feels foreign and uncomfortable. But it gets better…
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playpoobah/poobah-the-conversation-game TESTIMONIAL FROM LIZ PRYOR, FAMILY CIRCLE COLUMNIST AND FORMER ABC GOOD MORNING AMERICA LIFE EXPERT “I have never come across a more valuable resource for families and parents.” Hi, I wanted to write something to express my incredible support for this Amazing new idea, Poobah the conversation game, which is available on Kickstarter here. In all that I have gathered over the last decade on family, parenting, kids, young, teen and adult- I have never come across a more valuable resource. Somewhere inside each of us, we know that what matters most in life, are the relationships we have with the people we love; and that begins with our families. I was raised in the Midwest, number five out of seven kids, and it wasn’t until I had my own three kids, that I understood the value in the effort my parents made to keep our family involved and…
Mom was right: Our girlfriends are one of the best support systems we’ll have in life. Hold on the the real ones. As my mother used to say, you’re lucky if you can count on half of one hand the true friends you have. And my mom was a pretty impressive example. Throughout the chaos of raising seven kids, the one thing she never let fall by the wayside were her girlfriends. When I was in seventh grade, my dad decided he no longer wanted to be married to our mom. Her friends showed up with food, cigarettes and a boatload of Fresca. They cleaned up, did the laundry, organized our days and over time helped our mom pick her heart up off the floor. We know deep down the value of the bonds we have with our friends. (Scientists have even documented it.) This is what women do: We support, buoy…