Parenting & Lifestyle Blog By Carissa Godbott
Do allow your children Mental Health Days? Or Reset Days? Mental Health or Reset days are days when you have nothing planned and you just stay around the house pretty much navigating at your own pace! A day to give your mind and body a chance to relax and recharge! Yesterday, we were getting ready for drive-in church and I…
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Seems like everywhere I turn people are talking about Halloween. Given everything that’s going on right now, I can’t say I blame them! Let me be honest for a moment, I do love a good scare from time to time but I moreso love Halloween because of the fun in dressing up in costumes! From the time that Darrick and…
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This post is brought to you by the CHPA Educational Foundation and The Motherhood. All opinions are 100% my own. I remember it like it was yesterday, I was in my last year of college and my mom and nephew had come to visit me for the weekend. When I came home to visit or whenever my parents came to…
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The love for dry cereal that my children have is amazing to me! Ever since they were little and we gave them dry Cheerios, and the love for dry cereal stuck around. DJ eats dry cereal daily with his breakfast, and Emma eats it for a snack from time to time. During this time at home, it seems as if…
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Making sure that your child with learning differences gets appropriate support during blended learning is going to add another layer of challenge to the school year, but with a few practical tips, it will be much less complicated. Emma is on an IEP and luckily her school makes the necessary accommodations for on a daily basis, and many of her…
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Every Friday is Pizza night at my house! It’s something we started a few years ago and it has stuck with my family! Each week we change it up; sometimes we order pizza, make homemade pizza, or cook frozen pizzas. Either way we know Friday night is pizza night, and at this point I think we all look forward to…
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For my family, Donuts is a love language…well all of us except DJ! He’s not a fan unless you break it apart and say taste this piece of cake and he may eat it! Meanwhile, Emma loves all things donuts! She even has on donut earrings today! I tried to change them and she wasn’t having it at all! Over…
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This shop has been compensated by Inmar Intelligence and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #LittleBitesBacktoSchool Entenmann’s Little Bites® snacks are one of our favorite snacks to have at home. No matter what time of day it is I can always catch the kids eating them. I usually let my children navigate their own after school snacks. But surprising…
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Parents and children both have a lot of anxiety right now about school and Covid-19. It’s natural for both to want to return to their normal routines, but now with added safety precautions and the continuous changing of Covid-19 related precautions, it puts extra strain on families. Here are some tips for families to ease the transition. Create a consistent household routine Most…
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If you have ever met DJ you would know he eats, sleeps, and breathes sports! He watches it religiously, and he will play any sport, he loves it! Crazy how you can see something that your child is passionate about at such a young age! Due to COVID-19, DJ only had a chance to play one season of flag football….
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