Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school?

Nervous about kids going back to school? A big cause of back-to-school anxiety for parents is transportation. Should kids walk to school? Are school buses safe? I drive to school; how do I juggle schedules? Here are parenting tips on coordinating school transportation. WAHMs and work at home parents, here are tips to help you decide. Parents' back-to-school concerns: Should kids ride the bus or walk to school? 

How to Blog--Where to Find Free Blogs

One of the best online tools for sharing content, selling products and promoting freelance articles (if the site allows) is through blogging. Blogs are an online WAHM or work at home parent's best friend. For the SAHM, a blog can be make money, too. Looking for tips on how to blog? I'm your go-to gal-- I maintain 68 blogs (like this one) which get a combined 200,000 to 800,000 hits per month. Think you have to pay to blog? You don't. There are several free blogs and blogging sites. Here's how to get a free blog. Note: in the article, I offered a link on how to import Blogger blogs to Wordpress. That link doesn't work. But you can access that article here by clicking "wordpress" in the keywords list. In fact, this blog provides lots of blog helps. How to Blog--Where to Find Free Blogs

Teaching kids a healthy work ethic--start this summer

There's a misnomer among kids that summer break from school entitles one to three months of leisure. Not only is that unrealistic, it's unhealthy. All work and no play may make jack a dull boy, but all play and no work makes him self-indulgent and irritating. Summer is a great time to build a positive work ethic. In order to do, we need to dispel and rethink some erroneous assumptions about work.  Read more at Teaching kids a healthy work ethic

Free Calendars--free printable personal planner, online organizer

Speaking from several decades of teaching, one of the most challenging concepts for students to master is calendar skills. Calendar skills are vital skills for personal organization and time management. Here are free printable calendar, free online organizer and personal planner tools and lesson plans to use them. Use these to organize your family life, too.  Click here...

WAHM and Freelancers, You Need a Kiss My Back Mesh Chair Support

Shopping at Bed Bath and Beyond recently, I discovered an inexpensive orthopedic tool that has helped my back tremendously. The Kiss My Back Mesh Back Support is an ergonomic tool that fits into any chair or seat to improve sitting posture and reduce back strain. The Kiss My Back Mesh Back Support is a lightweight, flexible contoured frame that supports the back when sitting. It's cheap and goes anywhere. Read more...

Mental Health Life Strategies for Parents, WAHM, SAHM

5 Mental Health Life Strategies that Really Work
What are "life strategies"? Volumes have been written on life strategies. Life strategies are mentally healthy coping and survival skills for this challenge we call "life." The majority of wisdom can be distilled into these five life strategies. Perfect for WAHM work at home moms and SAHM stay at home moms
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Work at Home Mom Guilt Issues

WAHM Guilt Issues: Why Can't You Play with Us, Mommy?
If they ever issue an Oscar for Best Set of Guilt Issues, I'd win. Whether SAHM (stay at home mom), WAHM (work at home mom) and go to work mom, guilt is there. Do these words get you in the guilt bone: 'Mommy, why can't you play with me?' Read on.
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Tips for WAHM- Coping with Guilt

Guilt is a major plague for moms, WAHM, SAHMs we're all prone to it. When we try to balance, family, home, career, home business, writing career, we sometimes suffer. Here are some tips for survival from a veteran online writer, WAHM, SAHM and guilt addict. Read on...

10 Therapeutic Techniques to Heal Low Self Esteem - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

10 Therapeutic Techniques to Heal Low Self Esteem We stay at home moms and work at home moms are subject to mommying guilt just as much as our working-mom counterparts. Here are tips to heal that low self esteem. 

Top 10 Online Survey Companies - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Top 10 Online Survey Companies  Looking to work at home? Maybe you're a SAHM (stay at home mom) or a work at home parent. Here are online survey companies to bring in a few bucks. Perfect for those odd few minutes when you don't have time for a long invasive task. 

Tips for Writers and WAHM to Overcome Writer's Block

Free Tips to Overcome Writer's Block
Writer's block; the laryngitis of writers. If you write frequently, you're bound to suffer a bout of writer's block. Here are some easy remedies to get your block unblocked.
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