Mar 21, 2021 | Burlington, By Location, Camps, Education, High Point, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies, Private Schools, Recreation, Sunday Spotlights
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing In today’s Sunday Spotlight: Tour High Point Friends School Summer Camps at Painted Grape Support from Postpartum by RaRa Discover the Magic of High Point Friends School Finding the right place for your child’s...
Jan 14, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Babies, By Stage, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Sara “RaRa” Gibson with PostPartum By RaRa Everyone will tell you that pregnancy is over once you finally meet your new little one, but is that really the case? The idea of the “4th trimester” and thinking of it as a part of pregnancy is a...
Aug 24, 2020 | By Stage, Education, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By TMoM Team Member Anna Keller To say this is a different school year is obviously a HUGE understatement, and I’m sure many other preschool families are finding themselves in the same position we are: opting to keep our kids at home this fall. I know this isn’t an...
Aug 8, 2020 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Humor, Info about Our Website, Just for Moms, Local Resources, Moms & Dads, Pop Culture, Books & Movies
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing In case you’ve missed it, we wanted to be sure our readers knew that we have added another way to feel connected and find resources as a parent in the Triad! TMoM launched our new podcast series, “Triad Moms on the...
Jun 17, 2020 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Suzy Fielders Birthdays are always a great time to look back not just over the years and memories, but over the lessons you’ve learned. One of my favorite quotes comes from the first Sex in the City movie. “Enjoy yourself… that’s what your 20s...
Jun 14, 2020 | By Location, Greensboro, Local Resources, Sunday Spotlights
By TMoM Team Member Rachel Hoeing In today’s Sunday Spotlight … Gate City Musikgarten Summer Golf Camps Triad Moms on the Mic Podcast New Giveaways Watch your Child Bloom with Gate City Musikgarten Musikgarten is a global early childhood music curriculum for...
May 15, 2020 | Info about Our Website, Local Resources
Have you listened to an episode of “Triad Moms on the Mic” yet? This popular series is brought to you by Triad Podcast Network and features four amazing local moms who also happen to also be TMoM team members: Kodia Byers, Laura Dydek, Kelly Hines and...
Apr 12, 2020 | For the Home, From the Doctor, Health, Info about Our Website, Local Resources, Non Profits
By TMoM Team Member Katie Moosbrugger Happy Easter! Here is what we are featuring in today’s Sunday Spotlight: ~ Get $100 off your Next Project with Five Star Painting of Greensboro ~ Kages Kards: Handmade by the Community and Presented by a Superhero ~ Pregnant...
Mar 25, 2020 | Info about Our Website, Local Resources
By the TMoM team We’ve been planning this announcement for weeks, and it’s debut could not come at a more needed time. While none of us wish to be in this crazy coronavirus quarantine, we are happy to bring you a resource that will not only offer you...
Jan 30, 2020 | From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Working Parents
By Guest Blogger Hillary Zaken Dear working parent, I see you. I see you juggling work and childcare and self-care and your home and your chores and your relationship and your community involvement and your children’s extra-curricular activities, striving for that...
Dec 13, 2019 | By Stage, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By Dennette Bailey I recently had the opportunity to give a tour to a family looking for a preschool for their child and when I greeted them at the door the 3-year old boy said, “look I got this rock for you.” I was elated and amazed (I happen to be a rock collector...
Sep 27, 2019 | Babies, Children's Health & Wellness, From the Doctor, Health, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Lisa Peaty, LCSW Can you recall how many times that you asked yourself these questions, while your crying infant was wailing in the background? Sleep deprived, perhaps with spit up on your shirt, and matted hair from the last 15 minute “rest” on the...
Sep 10, 2019 | From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Rachel Haggerty, author of the blog Redemption Red: The Haggerty Life Growing up the oldest of six children, there wasn’t any room for selfishness or entitlement. Any trace of that, junk was nipped in the bud pretty quickly in those close...
Aug 14, 2019 | Books, Supplies & Gear, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School
By TMoM Team Member Kelly Hines I say the same thing every August – this year, I’m going to get organized for school. Then, a week after school starts, I say – NEXT year, I’m going to get organized for school. For many of us, the school year is starting...
Jul 20, 2019 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Tweens & Teens
By Katie Moosbrugger We had a sad day in our house recently. My soon-to-be tween asked if she could now call me “Mom” instead of “Mommy.” I knew this day would eventually come, but I was shocked at how it hit me. Even though – every once in a while – she shows...
Nov 29, 2018 | By Stage, Gift Ideas & Gift Shoppes, Helpful Lists & Directories, Local Resources, Parenting & Family, Shopping, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Dennette Bailey Christmas is coming! How I would love to hear little child voices saying those words again! I think I would not have complained if I had known the future meant that my children would grow up and lose the sense of excitement for Christmas that made...
Nov 2, 2018 | Adults, Marriage & Couples, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Christine Murray, PhD, LPC, LMFT, Director of the Healthy Relationships Initiative Our Healthy Relationships Initiative (HRI) team is excited to partner with Triad Moms on Main on this blog series. In this series, we offer general guidance to relationship or family...
Aug 14, 2018 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Homeschooling, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By Laura Simon Summer break is already almost gone. How is that possible? Is it already time to start supervising approximately three-thousand homework sheets, countless eye rolls, and too many tears? Now, who wants to talk about supporting the learning process at...
Jul 16, 2018 | High School & Beyond, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens
By Rachel Hoeing For the past year, the game of Fortnite has been a thorn in my side. I have a 15 year-old son, and this video game has brought unto us a constant argument of when he can play, how long he can play, etc. The school year was tough as we endured many...
Jun 4, 2018 | Education, Elementary, Family Time, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Kelly Nichols, a local elementary school teacher The studies exist. The summer slide is real. The average student loses approximately one month of learning over the summer. The decline is greater in math than reading and even more significant for...
Dec 29, 2017 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Blanca Cobb, Body Language and Lie Detection Expert All teens will lie to their parents at some point. More than likely they tell more than one lie. In fact, Nancy Darling, an associate professor of psychology at Oberlin University, found that 98% of...
Oct 14, 2017 | For the Home, Helpful Lists & Directories, Local Resources
By Guest Blogger Patricia Justice, an interior redesign specialist and professional home stager With the holiday season right around the corner, and as most of us enjoy family time, we often feel helpless with the thought of keeping it all together on the home front. ...
Oct 11, 2017 | Education, From the Heart, Homeschooling, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Laura Simon When I decided to homeschool, I envisioned myself doing, well, everything. I’d discovered that most curriculum will pretty much walk the most clueless parent through the teaching process, so I turned my attention to extracurriculars. Art? Yeah…I can...
Aug 31, 2017 | Education, Food & Nutrition, Nutrition, Preschool, Recipes & Fun Food Ideas
By Guest Blogger Kelly Gunzenhauser It was the weekend before school started, and one of the chores on my list is grocery shopping for lunches. My kids are older now and lunch is easier, but I remember the struggle with packing lunch for preschoolers. Little fingers,...
Jul 17, 2017 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Laura Simon In one of my earliest memories, I am running across my childhood backyard, one hand grasping the sparkly baton I had saved all of my Vacation Bible School tokens to purchase. I loved that baton, with the sparkly tinsel on the inside, and...
Jun 24, 2017 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Stacy Leighton with Forsyth Family magazine I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Ready? Since the dawn of time, every parent has flown by the seat of his or her pants. Just when you think you have a handle on this child guidance thing,...
May 10, 2017 | From the Heart, Just for Moms, Marriage & Couples, Moms & Dads
By TMOM, featuring Guest Bloggers Corinne and Allison Groves-Neal If you’ve been reading TMoM for any amount of time, you have seen us highlight the wonderful diversity among Triad moms, as well as all the different situations and circumstances in which we live....
Mar 17, 2017 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Stacy Leighton with Forsyth Family magazine I’m not going to lie – parenting is tough! The “picture perfect families” in glossy ads? That’s just false advertising. Real families are messy. There will be days without showers, nights without...
Jan 30, 2017 | Child Care Facilities & Programs, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Whitney Barnard It’s 2017, and screen time is more than just TV. It’s computers, tablets, phones, and geez, now even watches! The best way to control your child’s screen time is to add it to your daily list of activities, just like...
Dec 7, 2016 | Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Laura Simon Maybe you’ve see the meme circling social media. It lists a set of age-appropriate chores for children, and pictures a mother and young daughter, both dressed straight out of Little House on the Prairie. The child is sewing something with...
