Want to Digitally Detox Your Kids, but don't know where to start?
Musings from Molly
Welcome to the blog portion of the party! I’ve been writing for a long time but in the past few years, I’ve really focused on family, detoxing from digital, faith, and foster care. You’ll find humor and honesty in these articles, but most of all I hope you’ll find tips that will transform your family for the better.
How much screen time should my kids have?
How can parents enjoy the respite that screen time provides, without sacrificing our precious children to the entertainment vortex? How much screen time can we allow? I'll get to that. But first, let's talk about why digital entertainment turns our darlings into...
Five Summer Survival Tips for Moms and Dads
Moms and dads—What a year, right? It’s like kids went back to school for a full twenty minutes and now it’s time for summer. How you feeling about that? Shock, confusion, denial? It doesn’t have to be this way! Summer is a perfect opportunity to cultivate the best...
Last Minute Book Ideas for Kids this Christmas
The last thing a mama wants for Christmas is to blow the budget on gifts our kids won’t even play with after a few weeks. Who wants more random toys taking up space in the house? No, thanks. This is why I'm giving my six kids some great books that they will pick up...
Two Simple Mom-Hacks for Getting Through Your Quarantine-iest Summer Days
Liam and Sam (6 and 8) have been feuding over the Lego bin like mini WWE contenders since breakfast. Grace cut her sister’s Barbie’s hair, and blood curdling screams are ringing. (Rage-eyes look extra creepy on four-year-old faces, but here we are.) Max has been...
A Screen-Smart Summer
Photo: Derksen Photography This summer is weird. Spring 2020 was basically three months of quarantined, screen-filled days. We couldn't wait to move on to summer...which is starting to look like three more months of trapped-at-home, screen-filled days. Sounds kind of...
Five Screen Free Kids Activities for Christmas Break
Are they driving you crazy? Fighting, boredom, irrational meltdowns over nonsense? Are video games turning your precious people into grumpy zombies? What can be done? Here are five screen-free boredom busters for your kids this Christmas break. Forget YouTube, these...