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How to Teach Your Kids About Sustainability Through Home Education

Home Education Ideas for Kids: Sustainability and Fun Learning When it comes to home education, one key factor that can often be overlooked is teaching sustainability to our children. As more families seek eco-friendly and sustainable ways to teach their children at home, it’s important to find fun and engaging home education ideas for kids that…

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How to Keep Kids Engaged in Home Education: Fun and Creative Ideas for 9 and 11-Year-Olds

Home Education Ideas for Kids: Fun Activities for 9-11-Year-Olds Are you looking for exciting home education ideas for kids? Teaching kids at home offers endless possibilities for creativity and hands-on learning. If you're home educating children aged 9 and 11, the options are practically endless for making education both fun and meaningful. Below are some…

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Safe Words in Home Education: The Secret to Keeping Calm and Focused

Home education isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Some days it’s more like a rollercoaster. One minute your child’s breezing through a new topic, and the next, they’re in full meltdown mode over a single math problem. If you’ve ever felt your patience fraying while trying to home educate your little ones, you’re in good company.…

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Parenting Tweens: Surviving Drama, Social Media, and Sass

Parenting tweens is like stepping into a world of chaos, comedy, and unpredictability. Those magical years when your sweet little kids transform into opinionated, TikTok-obsessed, eye-rolling enigmas can test even the most patient parent. Add social media into the mix, and you’re not just raising kids -you’re managing tiny PR disasters who think “cringe” is…

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Resetting Your Kids’ Sleep Schedule When You Can’t Even Sleep Yourself

Alright, let’s talk about something that drives me absolutely crazy: resetting your kids’ sleep schedule when you can’t even get a decent night’s sleep to save your life. As a parent who deals with insomnia, I feel like the universe has played one big, cruel joke on me. How am I supposed to fix their…

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When Life Doesn’t Go to Plan: Letting Go and Finding Your Own Way

There’s something nobody warns you about when you become a parent: how damn often life will throw your plans out the window. You picture this perfect, shiny life. You’ve got your ideas on how family life should be - maybe it involves a partner by your side, a sense of balance, and a clear path…

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Other People’s Bullsh*t Has Nothing to Do With You (And Why You Shouldn’t Care)

Let me hit you with some truth right out the gate: other people’s bullsh*t has absolutely, unequivocally, nothing to do with you. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Yet, here we are, so often caught in the drama, insecurities, and nonsense other people throw at us, like we somehow signed up to be their emotional punching bag. And…

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RIP Latte: Losing Our Guinea Pig, Sleepover Madness, and What’s Next on Netflix?

Today was a tough one. Our little guinea pig, Latte, passed away this morning. We only had him since July, but it’s wild how attached you can get to something so small in such a short time. He quickly became part of our routine - his little squeaks, his endless munching on veggies - and…

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How I Made It Through a Messy Day Without Tears

Ok, so today was a tough one. I broke up with my partner of 20 months. Twenty months of daily conversations, texts, and shared moments, all gone just like that. We never met in person, but that doesn’t make the hurt any less real. It’s a virtual breakup, yes, but the heartbreak feels just as…

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