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How to Nurture Healthy Screen Habits for Your Family

by Joanna Sawatsky | Mar 11, 2020 | Doing Life Together, Parenting Small Children

Thanks so much to Minno for sponsoring this post! When my girls were small, they woke up at an ungodly hour of the morning every day. Keith was working long hours as a medical resident and our apartment was tiny. So the girls watched Babe each morning (aka, “Pig...

10 Ways to Laugh with Extended Family this Christmas

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 19, 2017 | Doing Life Together

Are your Christmases with extended family often, quite frankly, boring? When I was younger I loved Christmas. It brought family, which meant having other children to play with and to sleep over–it was the best part of my year. Unfortunately, my grandparents were...

The Getaway Plan

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 17, 2012 | Family

If you’re like me, vacations are awesome–but your getaway plan leaves something to be desired. You want to get going, but there are too many things that need to be taken care of first! See if you can identify with this column that first ran in a bunch of...