Local Moms & Kids

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  Is 2025 the year you tackle potty training your kid? Read this

  03/03/2025

  Is this THE year? The year your household tackles the process of potty training? If so, this post is for you. Speaking as professional writer mamas who have survived this process and lived to tell [...]

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  Pioneer Woman’s chocolate stenciled heart cookies

  02/10/2025

  Oh, we love it when the Pioneer Woman tells stories about her early cooking years. She and her mom used to make heart-shaped chocolate cookies for Valentine’s Day, and they decorated them using alphabet stencils [...]

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  The Rockwood Files: TV Talk

  01/25/2025

  By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Once every five years or so, we get a new television. Sometimes it’s because we actually need one – like that summer when a lightning strike [...]

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  Tweens & Teens: Are you an emotional garbage collector?

  01/24/2025

  Mamas, we learned so much when we read this interview (from The New Yorker) with author Lisa Damour who published “The Emotional Lives of Teenagers” earlier this year. We think you will, too. Find out [...]

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  20 Things Your High School Freshman Needs to Know

  01/06/2025

  Do you ever wish you’d done a few things differently back in high school? Some of those “woulda-coulda-shoulda” moments might help your kids avoid the same regrets. We love some of the ideas included in [...]