by Smarter Parenting | May 5, 2016 | Others
Mom, thanks for loving me to pieces I’ve always known I hit the jackpot with my mother. She and my dad taught me the most important lessons I will ever learn in life. My mom has shaped my life in more ways than I can say but I’m going to try. My mom was the kind of...
by Smarter Parenting | May 5, 2016 | Blogs, Others
All about mom. A Mother’s Day printable Remember how when you were in elementary school and Mother’s Day would roll around, you’d be given a sheet to fill out about your mom. In your innocence you wrote things like: “My mother’s favorite thing is doing the...
by Smarter Parenting | May 4, 2016 | Blogs, Others
Send mom your thanks If we’re to go by all the advertising we see leading up to Mother’s Day, we’d assume what our mom wants is something ridiculously expensive. Really what most of our moms want is to know they’re doing a good job. And if we’re honest, most of us...
by Smarter Parenting | May 4, 2016 | Blogs, Others
My mom’s favorite phrase, “It could always be worse” “It could always be worse” and “It doesn’t get better than this” were two of my mom’s favorite phrases. Mom, I hated the first one SOOO much growing up, even though I knew you were right. If I was...
by Smarter Parenting | May 3, 2016 | Blogs, Others
Mom, thanks for going without Who is privileged to choose where they come from? My mother, Carol, was born in a small town in Sanpete County, Utah during the Great Depression, the oldest of five children. Since her father was often sick, the family never had very...