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Follow These 10 Tips to Keep Your Marriage Strong After Baby Comes

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Looking for tips on how to keep marriage strong after baby? These 10 relationship tips for new parents can help many marital problems that come from life with a newborn. Welcome to the joys of parenthood! No matter how prepared you may think you are, when your little one finally arrives there is bound to be a moment or two when you think, “I did ...

15 Fun Ways to Give Words of Affirmation to Your Husband

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Today I am talking about Words of Affirmation for Husbands. Thank you so much to Katelyn for the invitation to guest post. I read her blog a lot so it is such an honor to be a part of it today! My guest post today relates to several books by Gary Chapman about his Five Love Languages. I'm sharing a series that I call Love Languages Ideas for ...

Keep it Real – The Need for Honesty and Openness Online

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How many times do we answer the questions "How are you today?" or "Do you like this?" or "What do you need?" with vague, empty, or untrue answers? How often do we not take people up on their "If there is anything I can do to help, let me know" offers? Chances are if you like a lot of people, myself sometimes included, it's too often. For ...

How did baby get in your tummy? 6 Tips for Having “The Talk” with a Preschooler

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We are trying to keep open dialogues in our house, and to answer questions as they come up from our children. But, this sometimes makes for awkward conversations and lots of talk about private parts and maturing into adults with my kids. Now that I am pregnant with baby number four, we've had to have a certain talk with our inquisitive four year ...

Should we really tell kids they can be whatever they want to be?

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We all want the best for our children. We have high hopes and high expectations and truly think these little people are incredible and amazing. We believe they are talented and bright. So, often we tell them not to limit themselves or their potential because they can be and do whatever they want to be or do when they grow up. And we make sure our ...

When you feel like an Island

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I recently read a post from Motherhood and More (one of my favorite blogs) called It Takes a Village to Raise a Mother and this post resonated with me so much. I cried. And I am not one to cry easily. But, it brought up so many emotions from my past, and made my heart full in gratitude to the women who reached out to me during my initiation period ...

Why do I yell at my children? Resolving to Overcome My Anger

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One of my least favorite things about parenting is the amount of yelling I do. I yell to get my child's attention. I yell at them just before they hurt themselves. I yell at them when they make dumb choices. I yell at them to be quiet (good example there Mom!). I yell at them to go somewhere else for a minute. I yell at them to clean up, to hurry ...

Marriage After Kids

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As our girls have now passed that glorious one-year mark and are in the throes of toddlerhood Josh and I have taken a step back to reexamine our relationship... and realize that having kids makes you fight with your spouse! We had a couple over last night who said the same thing: they were married for three years before they had their first kid ...