parenting – Mamie L. Pack

Keep them learning: 12 online resources to help keep your children learning during school closures

Wow, friends! Current world events are impacting all of us. Like many of you, our fellas are home for an extended period. Although I am totally in for not getting up early and no long drop off lines, I know our fellas are missing out on vital days of learning. Maybe you could use these 12 online resources to keep your children learning during school closures too? Just think, Education Week reports over 46,000 schools are currently closed, scheduled to close, or were closed and later opened, affecting at least[...]

Feature, Lifestyle, Motherhood, Raising boys

5 simple organizational tools for busy parents

(Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning at no cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.) The kids are back in school. You have worked hard to get your routines in place, but somehow a pile of papers is starting to grow on your counter. How do YOU keep everything organized now that school is in full swing? Whether you need to organized school supplies or the big pile of papers coming home with your kindergarten, I have done it all w[...]

Mid-week three, Motherhood, Raising boys, Relationships

You’re not listening to me: 3 reasons why your kid doesn’t want to talk to you (+ what you can do improve)

One challenge of being a mom is creating a relationship where our children want to talk to me. Those days of constant chatter about everything from their latest poop to their biggest dream when our children were little, seem so fleeting. I had no idea just how much I would miss the oversharing of my little fellas. Now with our fellas older, I find myself hunting for the right question. You know the one question that would lead to them sharing the details of their day. The one question that would get more[...]

Mid-week three, Motherhood

Parent-Teacher partnership: 3 back-to-school prayers for teachers and school leaders

Back to school prayers for our teachers and school leaders is an important way parents prepare for an new school year. Get started with these three prayers for teachers.

faith, Mid-week three, Motherhood, Raising boys

Back to school: 3 simple ways to prepare your child’s heart for a new school year

While preparing our children for a new school year, let's be sure we are preparing their hearts.