Bluestreak Books sent me a copy of Seventeen: College Goals AND is providing a prize pack for one of my lucky readers! Affiliate links are used within this post. I thought potty training was hard. The toddler struggles have NOTHING on dealing with growing teens. Teaching them how to drive, surviving SATs, preparing them for…
Creation Crate Technology-Based Subscription Box
I received a 3-month subscription to Creation Crate for my 12-year-old son to try out. He fell in love! All thoughts and opinions are our own. My youngest son is what you’d call a Maker Kid. He was always more interested in taking apart the old VCR to see how it worked than he was…
Fight the Summer Slide with Summer Brain Quest Workbooks
Summer Brain Quest prizing and samples, along with blog sponsorship, were provided by Workman Publishing. All thoughts are my own. We’re in the middle of Spring Break, which for me as a parent is like a sneak peek of what summer break is going to be. It’s SO hard to keep kids from wanting to…
Tween & Teen Mobile Device Addiction #TOPsBalance
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of TOPs Balance for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. My oldest daughter didn’t get her own cell phone until she was 16 and had a summer job. We were the strict parents, holding out on getting our kids a cell phone or a tablet…
Future City Competition 2016: Waste Not Want Not
Have you heard of Future City Competition? I hadn’t heard of it, either…before this month. Now I am fascinated and HOOKED! This past Tuesday, my two youngest kids and I had the opportunity to head down to Washington DC for the day. School was cancelled because of ice, but the metro was running so we…
What Does The Perfect School Look Like? #RethinkHighSchool
This post is sponsored by XQ: The Super School Project. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I’m a mother of five teens and tweens (a college sophomore, a high school junior, a high school freshman, plus 7th and 5th graders), and so it’s no surprise that I think about the education system a…
Crazy 8s Club Makes Math Fun For Kids
This post is a recap of my compensated Ambassadorship for Bedtime Math Crazy 8s Club. All opinions expressed here are my own. Before I had kids, I was a teacher. As a teacher AND as a mother to young kids, one thing that I felt strongly about was that kids learned best when they…
Bedtime Math’s Crazy 8s Club
I am a compensated Ambassador for the Bedtime Math Crazy 8s Club. All opinions expressed here are my own. You may have noticed all of the fun math activities for kids I’ve been showing off lately on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. I’ve been so busy having FUN being a Crazy 8s Ambassador that I…
Provost Academy: The UnVirtual Online School #MyUnVirtualSchool
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Provost Academy. All opinions are 100% mine. This past week, I attended back to school night for 3 of my kids. Before I headed to the middle school, my 6th grade daughter said, “Make sure you meet Mrs. H! She’s my favorite…
Bing in the Classroom: #AdFreeSearch for Kids #BingClassroom
Many thanks to Bing for sponsoring today’s post, and inspiring me to share about their #adfreesearch classroom initiative. All thoughts are my own. When I was in school, there was no internet to look up the answers to any question we had. There were no mobile phones to distract students from learning in class, and…