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Regular family dinners are an excellent way to spend quality time with your kids and help grow a stronger bond as a unit. Your kids may moan and groan sometimes but stick with it because the long-term rewards of sharing in these moments will be worth it.

Maybe your mealtime isn’t going as well as you hoped or you’re trying it out for the first time. In either case, it’ll be helpful to learn some tips for having and planning successful and enjoyable family dinners. While they can’t and won’t all be perfect, you can do what’s in your power to help ensure that they occur and are managed in the best way possible.

Welcoming a pet into your home is no easy decision. While it might seem like a dream come true, in reality, owning a dog can be hugely taxing and gives you a lot more responsibility day to day.

The decision is even more difficult when small children are in the home. Will the dog and kids get along? Will the kids be safe? Which breeds are the best for kids? There are, understandably, a lot of questions. However, there is a huge number of benefits to bringing a dog into your family, all of which have been scientifically proven to help your children develop into healthy and happy little humans.

The health and wellbeing of your family are some of the essential things in life. Ensuring yourself, your partner, children, and pets are healthy and happy will ultimately make your home a brighter place to be. Knowing your loved ones are well-cared for will improve your mood and make everyone content.

Although personal care and hygiene is something, we all know about, understanding the best ways to improve personal care for families will lead to healthier and happier individuals. It can prevent minor illnesses from occurring and fewer medical bills, which we all know are the most unfortunate occurrences. Here are the most effective ways to improve personal care in your household, from babies to pets and partners. 

For many people, this is the very best time of year. It certainly has many wonderful benefits to it that a lot of people are happy about, from the way that nature appears to the sorts of activities that you are able to do compared to other times of year. If you also love autumn, and you would like to make the most of it, you might want to ensure that you and your family are doing whatever you can to fully get into the autumn mood. In this article we are going to look at some of the best ways that you might be able to do that, so you can absolutely enjoy the autumn in whatever way you would most like.

A household’s well-being lies in its own members’ hands, and a house is no longer a home when there is division among its occupants. Caring family members readily provide support to one another, in cash and in-kind. In the EU, divorce rates increased to 2 per 1000 people in 2017.

This is a massive increment in marriage breakdowns when compared to 1965 when that figure was 0.8 per 1000 people. Despite the discouraging statistic, many people are still interested in creating healthy family relationships. Here are a few tips to help you solidify your own family relationships. 

Adoption is one of the most charitable things that one human being can do for another. Essentially, you're bringing up the biological child of another person. And you're doing it for no other than the reason that you want to and feel that it's the right thing for you and your family.

Raising children who are not your own is a big sacrifice and something that is entirely admirable in our society. It's also incredibly challenging to do and takes a lot of soul-searching, especially when you first commit. You wonder whether you're the right person for the job and what the dynamic will be like. You fear that there will be differences in how you treat your biological and non-biological children. And all that stress can ultimately take its toll on your mind. It's not an easy path.

Whether you are spending a day at the beach, staying at the lake, or just adventuring outdoors, this is a great list of needs the entire family will enjoy. We live in Georgia where is hot and humid all summer long. We are always at the beach, lake, or swimming pool, so over the years I have learned what has worked for our family.

What did you do this summer? I did a lot of disconnecting from the social media and just enjoyed being in the moment. It can sometimes be hard since social media basically is my job right now, but it was so good for my family to see me not behind a screen, but actually in the moment. We went to so many baby showers, birthday parties, and we enjoyed family night every weekend.

What do you do to enjoy time with your family? Movie night? Game Night? A&W is celebrating 100 years of sweet family memories by calling on its fans to create new ones. This summer, A&W Root Beer invites families to take the Pledge with A&W on www.rootbeer.com to go technology-free for 1 hour every Friday night this summer and enjoy family night the right way! The unique, creamy taste of A&W Root Beer is a simple treat that creates fun, care-free experiences for families and can help make any moment special.

School’s out, for summer at least. And while it’s important that you don’t let your kids run riot at this time, it is the time for them to relax and blow off a little steam.

 

Summer is a good time to relax the rules a little bit, but only where you feel happy and comfortable. Here are some ideas for how to let your kids bend the rules a little this summer break and help them become a bit more independent.

While work and school are important, so is having a little fun and enjoying some entertainment with your family! If you’re unsure of how to spend your free time with your loved ones, then you’ve come to the right place.

The following activities are amusing and engaging suggestions for the whole family and will have you building a stronger bond together in no time. What’s most important is that you all eliminate any distractions when you’re hanging out with your family members and truly focus on what it is you’re doing in the moment. Give each one a try and see which ideas you all enjoy the most and do more of those going forward.

The product, information, and gift card have been provided by A&W so that I could try the product and share my thoughts and information about A&W Root Beer. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not reflect the opinions of A&W.

With the summer coming to an end and before the schedules become hectic again, we are soaking up every last minute with our family. This past weekend, we enjoyed a long lake day with all the cousins and of course A&W Root Beer Floats!

What do you do to enjoy time with your family? Movie night? Game Night? While the weather is warm, we are going to be at the lake or pool every day of the week that we can! A&W Root Beer has a long history of creating family memories. The unique, creamy taste of A&W Root Beer is a simple treat that creates fun, care-free experiences for families and can help make any moment special.

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It's the most wonderful time of the year! Are you and your family doing any holiday traveling this year? We do a little bit of traveling for some of our family events. Mostly just long car rides, but with kids those long rides can seem longer. I have put together a little list of some of my favorite family traveling essentials and I hope this list helps you on any of your upcoming holiday adventures. Work your way through all the suggestions once you have ticked off the essentials, like paying your Visitax, which you’ll need if you are planning a trip to Cancun.

I partnered with The Hopping Bloggers for this sponsored Holiday Gift Guide.

I have collaborated with The Hopping Bloggers to bring you a great list of gift ideas that the whole family will enjoy! This list not only includes products, but experiences and educational services as well. It also includes for grandparents as well as decorations too! Seriously this list has it all!

We bought our house a year ago this month. I still can't believe we have been living here that long. All the boxes have officially been unpacked, which is a HUGE accomplishment for us considering we never completely unpacked at our old house and we were there for almost nine years. But the main thing I have been focusing on now is decorating. I will eventually want to paint everything since there is just builder's grade paint on our walls now, but that will have to wait.

I love display my family as décor. Like for real, y'all. I love my family and I think they are gorgeous. I love canvas prints, metal prints, and I recently discovered FoamCorePrints.

Parenting is a learn as you go kind of gig. Experience is definitely the best teacher. You can read every parenting book out there (and trust me I did), but they can only prepare you for so much. each child is different, each situation is different, and each family is different.

There is no one size fits all parenting formula. You have to find your own formula that works for your family. I send my kids to public school. That isn't for everyone. I used disposable diapers, some people use cloth, and some people use both. I breastfed both of my babies and used formula with my youngest when he needed it. You have to do what works for you and your family. Our parenthood formula is happiness. What works for one child may not work for the other and what works at one age may (and most likely will) change as they get older.

During Spring Break, we decided to randomly take a trip to Chattanooga. My husband was looking on Groupon and at first we thought we would head to the beach, but everything was booked. Plus we needed to find a place for our dog to go. We are usually planners, so this was something different for us and I'm so glad we decided to do it. I called my mom asking if she would watch out dog for us (which she agreed to) and she recommended going to the mountains.

On the way to Chattanooga (Friday), we decided to hike at Cloudland Canyon State Park. You hike down to a beautiful waterfall and then you hike across a bridge to beautiful rocky ledges. We hiked about 5 miles that day, even the kiddos did. They loved every minute of it. We plan on camping there very soon.

In our efforts to start a healthier lifestyle, my husband and I have taken up hiking again. We are not trying to lose weight; we are trying to get more active and eat a balanced diet. My husband's birthday was on Monday, so we decided to take a trip over to High Falls State Park since we had never been before. Located northwest of Macon, High Falls State Park is named for tumbling cascades on the Towaliga River. Boat rental, ramps and fishing docks provide easy access to the park’s lake, known as one of Georgia’s top fishing spots for hybrid and white bass.

The day started a little chilly, but it has been feeling like Spring almost nearly day here in Georgia, so it did warm up. It was actually the perfect day. Not too hot, not too cold, slight overcast so the sun didn't beat down on us. My will-be-three-in-March son decided his 30 lb. self wouldn't walk most of the way and of course we forgot our Lillebaby carrier, so my poor husband carried him most of the time.

Ovation Brands is hosting Family Game Night and you're Invited! The Ovation Brands® portfolio of restaurants, which includes: Old Country Buffet®, Ryan’s®, HomeTown® Buffet, and Country Buffet®, will be partnering with PlayMonster™ to make Family Night all about fun and games.


PlayMonster™ is a toy and game company that believes in the power of play to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Delivering great play value by designing, manufacturing and marketing quality products like the award-winning The Game of THINGS…®, 5 Second Rule®, Mirari®, Perplexus®, Yeti in My Spaghetti®, Stinky Pig™, Farkle, Chrono Bomb®, OK to Wake!®, Lauri®, Stratego®, Roominate™, and Wooly Willy® is how PlayMonster™ helps keep play alive for all ages.

Starting June 16, restaurants will offer popular PlayMonster™ games like Yeti in My Spaghetti® and Stack Attack® on Thursdays for eight weeks of family-friendly fun paired with educational activities.

Family Night takes place every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. The following are scheduled activities from June 16 through August 4, 2016.

How do you handle tough topics with your children? My kids are still small enough that sometimes a conversation can be hard for them to understand. My daughter just "graduated" pre-school, but she was having some trouble with the little girls in her class. There is always "the leader" and she tells her little followers how to act or treat another person. One day they would want to play with my daughter, the next they wouldn't. It was very frustrating for me as a parent because I had no control about what happens at school. Of course I talked to my daughter's teachers and of course I talked to my daughter. But I felt that wasn't enough.