Parenting

Stop right there. Reign those ambitious thoughts back in and find a new hobby, or a new TV show. {I highly recommend This is Us, if you’re asking.} Grad school is hard. Like really hard. You have to use...

Father’s Day is just days away, and this week a few Houston dads have graciously contributed their thoughts on parenting. Today, Patrick Y., husband of Houston Moms Blog’s own contributor Vicky, shares how his 9 year old son has taught him...

{For just two weeks, we are handing over our computers to the men in our lives and turning this little piece of the world wide web into Houston Dads Blog!  Read along with their joys and their struggles, and find out why we...

Whether we work from home, we work out of the home, or we work within the home, we all work for one common purpose — to provide for and take care of our children. As moms, we wear many...

Ah St. Valentine's Day. Love it or hate it, just reading the name probably floods you with memories. As a thirty something adult, I know I've had three realms of experience with the day. As a kid, I LOVED...

There are over 400,000 children and youth currently in foster care. Approximately 1,200 children enter the foster care system every day. The statistics can be absolutely staggering—heartbreaking. And don’t go watching Instant Family either. Called to Support Foster Families The truth is that...

I'm usually pretty hesitant to put any "how to" post out there because it's tough to consider myself an expert on much of anything. I'm just trying to do the best I can most days. But if I look...

940. That's the number of Saturdays you get with your child between birth and 18 years old. And by the time those kiddos are just five years old, 260 of the Saturdays are over! It rocked me the first time I read...

It started in our preschool days. Overwhelmed moms standing in pick up lines, dreaming of a night out with adults :: no potty training, no bedtime routines, just a glass of wine and a conversation. This sounds like a...

Spring Break is almost here, and unless you are taking off on a fabulous vacation, it's likely your kids are going to be bored for some of the next week. And that is okay, and even beneficial.  Mooooommmmm! I’m sooooo...