Parenthood

Military spouses are pretty experienced at the art of starting over in a new place and trying to make new friends but what do you do when you find yourself in ‘Friendship No Man’s Land’? For the first five years...

Hello from Taylor Whitson - the new Military Mom Collective owner! What an exciting opportunity to continue to build upon the hard work Rachel and Amie have cultivated here at The Military Mom Collective. I have been lucky to have been...

While reading fellow blogger Lindsay Swoboda’s recent post, “Trusting the Transition”, I found myself transformed back to when I was learning to drive a manual transmission and had a remarkably similar—and equally memorable—experience of being stalled in an intersection...

Military spouses hate the word "goodbye." It commands many negative thoughts, memories, and emotions that we tend to mask it with other terms and phrases. "Goodbye for now" or "See ya later, not goodbye" come to mind; military life...

We've all been there. Many times. One minute, our kids are happy campers and the next minute, it's an epic meltdown. It might happen at the grocery store or in church or (always a good time) on an airplane. And...

My children are what we like to call “willful." Sometimes, this comes across as a toddler decisively screaming for the Elmo fork. Other times, we see it in my first grader’s full on tuxedo as a regular Saturday outfit selection....

I have some amazing friends, and they live all over the place. I want to be a better friend to them, no matter where we live. Many of them live far away. I know their kids, spouses, and the hashtags...

I lived my entire childhood in one town. Then, I went to college less than 30 minutes away. To say that I feel ill-equipped to help my children transition from place to place during PCS season is an understatement. Staring...

I think it's great how "sensory processing" has made its way into everyday conversations, classroom activities, and mainstream life. A decade or two ago, sensory processing activities were more or less only found in therapy clinics for a select...

I recently wrote about losing a dear friend to cancer. Knowing that she was dying, my friend went through her scrapbooks and photo albums, gathering correspondence and pictures from her close friends to give to them. I know she...

Across the U.S., school districts are desperate to hire additional substitute teachers. Some districts and states have gone so far as to lower or change the current requirements for substitutes, such as college credits or licensure in education. However,...

There’s a meme that’s been around for a while that says, “How do you talk to girls about their bodies? You don’t!” When I first saw this, I thought, Heck yeah! Girl power! That’s right. Don’t be telling them...