Category: Parenting Resources

  • 4 Moms of 35 Kids: Ebook Giveaway

    4 Moms of 35 Kids: Ebook Giveaway

    Guest post and giveaway by Connie of Smockity Frocks: Have you heard of The 4 Moms of 35+ Kids? We are a group of 4 large family moms who started a blogging project to answer questions we often get about parenting, household management, and more. The 4 Moms are: Smockity Frocks The Common Room Life…

  • Different children, different parenting

    Each month I have the privilege of writing for Tommy Nelson as a contributor to the Raising Faithful Kids blog. In October I shared a bit about how my husband and I modify to parent each of our children… Parenting is always changing. As I’ve said many before, often it feels like once I get…

  • What’s your best advice for a pregnant, first-time mom?

    What’s your best advice for a pregnant, first-time mom?

    When you look like this: people have a lot of advice for you. (And yes, by the way, that is me, very pregnant, as a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding a few years ago. My husband suggested we make curtains from the dress because there was so much fabric. Nice.) This weekend someone asked me…

  • The New First Three Years of Life

    http://www.amazon.com/New-First-Three-Years-Life/dp/0684804190 This is my absolute favorite parenting young children book out there. An educator at The Children’s Museum of Houston recommended it to me and I read it while pregnant with my first child.  Then I kept it closeby while navigating first-time motherhood, re-reading pages many times through the first two and a half years. And…

  • Baby Bargains book

    http://www.windsorpeak.com/babybargains/default.html Gearing up for baby number one (and others) can be an expensive, overwhelming process. I relied heavily on reviews in Baby Bargainsby Denise and Alan Fields to select a car seat, stroller, crib, diaper genie, sippy cup… heck, almost my entire baby registry was pulled from the pages of this book! And when baby…