Oct 13, 2021 | By Stage, Day Trips, Family Time, From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Parks & Outdoor Activities, Recreation, Toddlers & Preschool
By Guest Blogger Lauren Warren I woke up this past Saturday morning unprepared for the day. My daughter, who is three years old, had another awful night of sleep. (I feel like we will never get this sleep thing under control, but that is for another blog.) I am not...
Sep 30, 2021 | By Location, By Stage, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Education, Elementary, Greensboro, Health, Preschool, Private Schools, Toddlers & Preschool
By Guest Blogger Gillian Goodman, Lower School Director at Greensboro Day School Every parent hopes to see their child grow into a capable and confident young person. Fortunately, there are some simple things that you can do to help your child learn to become more...
Sep 28, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, By Stage, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Elementary Age, Health, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens
By Guest Blogger Brittany J. Todd, NCC, LCMHC, NCIP, CLC September is National Suicide Awareness Prevention Month, therefore this post is dedicated to increasing knowledge with the hope of initiating a deeper conversation about mental health and how our children are...
Sep 7, 2021 | By Stage, Children's Health & Developmental Concerns, Children's Health & Wellness, Elementary Age, Health, Teens & Tweens
By Guest Blogger Christine Murray With all of the stressors we’re all facing today, perhaps it’s no surprise that mental health symptoms are on the rise. If you’ve noticed your child has been struggling with stress, anxiety, challenging behaviors, and other...
Aug 31, 2021 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Working Parents
By Guest Blogger April Prioleau Is there really anything that Moms can’t do?! This is what I reminded myself when I knew I would travel for a work trip in August. I have four kids, work full-time, and do part time consulting work, so planning for the trip was a little...
Aug 25, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Children's Health & Wellness, Health, Safety, Teens & Tweens
By Guest Blogger Tara Pitts Stress? Anxiety? Sleeplessness? Between regular parenting duties and the seemingly endless pandemic, it’s hard to find any mom who isn’t struggling right now. Not being an evening wine drinker (it gives me a headache), a friend...
Aug 9, 2021 | Children's Health & Wellness, Education, Elementary, From the Doctor, Health, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Juan Santos M.S., CRC, LCMHC Returning to the classroom after the summer break can be an anxiety-provoking transition for students. The more prepared our kids are, the better they will be with feeling calm in the classroom and addressing the...
Aug 5, 2021 | By Stage, Education, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool, Toddlers & Preschoolers
By TMoM Team Member, Ashley Quinn Kibby I’m not an expert on raising toddlers, but I am very much in it with a double dose of twenty-eight-month-olds. Twins. Mine talk incessantly, nap infrequently, and still poop in their diapers. Both are learning to put on their...
Aug 3, 2021 | Arts & Enrichment Activities, By Location, Children's Health & Wellness, Exercise, Health, High Point, Recreation, Sports, Art & Enrichment
By Guest Blogger Lori Fields, owner and director of On Stage School of Dance Dance – a universal language, brings joy, smiles, and entertainment: Whether it’s a Rockette performance, a tribal festival, or dancing in the kitchen. It gives a true feeling of...
Jul 7, 2021 | Adults, By Stage, Family Time, Marriage & Couples, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Dionne Jenkins My husband and I recently celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary (Yay!). But I also celebrated another anniversary; twelve years as a stepmother. It has not always been easy; it is still not. Trust me, we have had our share of ups and...
May 14, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Ashley Quinn Kibby When I transitioned from my creative career to running a household full time, I thought that I was “taking a break from work,” and “staying home with the kids,” but what I was actually doing was starting a new job. Had I realized...
May 7, 2021 | Books, Supplies & Gear, By Stage, Education, Elementary Age, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By TMoM Team Member Dennette Bailey As an early educator for over 20 years, I am often asked about tools that can help children learn how to read. I try to impress upon parents that while tools are important, the first and most important aspect of a child’s learning...
Apr 28, 2021 | By Stage, Education, From the Heart, High School & Beyond, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Carrie DeLong Parenting has by far been the most amazing experience of my life! There have been the most exhilarating moments followed by those heart aching challenges that form us into well-rounded parents. In early days of parenting, we make...
Apr 12, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Ashley Quinn Kibby While I was pregnant with my twins, I read many books and articles written for mothers of multiples. Some good, some horrible, many functional, mostly instructional, with contents covering sleeping, napping, nursing, wrapping,...
Apr 6, 2021 | By Location, Education, Elementary, Greensboro, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool, Private Schools
By Geoffrey Campbell, Strategic Initiatives Coordinator at Greensboro Day School The very act of creating “hope-filled” drawings, at the Pandemic’s onset, nurtured the well-being of the youngest children in extraordinary ways. The act of turning pictures into pages...
Mar 30, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Ashley Quinn Kibby Parenting is transformational on every level. Overnight, my husband and I multiplied from two to four. We became oxytocin bodies, with increased feedback loops for social experience and bonding. We interrupted our daily wake, work,...
Feb 6, 2021 | Books, Supplies & Gear, By Stage, Education, Elementary, Elementary Age
By Guest Blogger Britney Dent School is out for millions of children nationwide as K-12 education has shifted from the classroom to the internet or a hybrid model. While many school districts are giving their teachers crash courses in online learning, parents also...
Feb 4, 2021 | By Stage, Elementary Age, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Toddlers & Preschool
By Guest Blogger Courtney Barrett, MSW, LCSW Positive parenting is not just a parenting approach. It is a mindset. It is a habit of looking at the positive in every interaction with your child. Instead of thinking, “Why is he or she behaving that way?” – it is...
Jan 26, 2021 | By Location, Education, Education for Special Needs, Elementary, Greensboro, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Private Schools
By Guest Blogger Aimee Picon, Director of Educational Outreach “The student fell through the cracks.” “He was moved through the system without ever addressing the problem.” “She is in 8th grade now, but never really learned how to read.” As an educator of students...
Jan 12, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Children's Health & Wellness, Food & Nutrition, From the Doctor, Health, Nutrition, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens
By Guest Blogger Jessie Tucker Mitchell, MA, LCMHCA, NCC Sixteen-year-old Anna* struggled with an eating disorder (ED) all through eighth and ninth grades. She woke at 5 am to run 90 minutes every morning, restricted her food intake to 600 calories a day, and made...
Jan 7, 2021 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Katie Allen, author of Allen in the Family Yep. You read that right. This baby is the result of an IUD pregnancy. In February of 2020 my husband and I decided to call off trying for a baby. We suffered a traumatic miscarriage the previous November and...
Dec 30, 2020 | Burlington, By Location, Greensboro, Helpful Lists & Directories, High Point, Info about Our Website, Kernersville, Local Resources, Winston-Salem
By TMoM Team Member Katie Moosbrugger 2020 was a year unlike any other, and it’s evidenced even in the blogs we ran over the past year. After doing a search to uncover the top 10 most read blogs of the past year, a few obvious themes emerged. Seems like the...
Nov 23, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Amie Havens I am a 45 year old woman, residing in Winston-Salem, with an amazing husband, and two wonderful stepchildren. Starting around September of last year, my life would take a dramatic turn for the worse. Little did I know at the time for the...
Nov 5, 2020 | By Stage, Children's Health & Wellness, Elementary Age, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Safety, Toddlers & Preschool
By TMoM Team Member Dennette Bailey Appropriate touch and sexual abuse are not easy conversations to have with our children. However, it gets even more difficult each year you avoid having them. As a mom, educator and former victim of child abuse, I know it is...
Oct 24, 2020 | Burlington, By Location, Children's Health & Wellness, Greensboro, Health, Helpful Lists & Directories, High Point, Kernersville, Local Resources, Winston-Salem
Updated by Katie Moosbrugger This directory is sponsored by Lewisville Family Counseling. Their caring counselors each have different specialties, so you are likely to find a good fit for counseling for you or your loved one. Their passion is partnering with...
Sep 21, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Health
By Guest Blogger Kristen Daukas of kristendaukas.com As our parents grow older, and as adult children, we may be faced with decisions about their care and living arrangements. This can be overwhelming, and you may be wrought with anxiety over making the best decision....
Aug 3, 2020 | By Stage, Education, From the Heart, High School & Beyond, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Teresa McHugh Whether it is your first child or last child going off to college, you can expect a plethora of mixed emotions to come your way. I know because I’ve been there … four times. With each departure came a wave of emotions that usually...
Jul 9, 2020 | By Stage, Education, From the Heart, High School & Beyond, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Chanel James July 2020. How did we get HERE? I mean, I do have a few guesses, but that might start some drama. Specifically, how did we get here… the place where your baby is leaving for college. Away from you. Away from your protection. Into a world...
Jul 3, 2020 | Children's Health & Wellness, From the Doctor, Health
By Guest Blogger Takashi Hirata, M.D. When someone says “body image,” most of us probably think of a teenage girl looking in the mirror and not liking what she sees. The word “anorexia” may then come to mind. But body image doesn’t have...
Jun 19, 2020 | From the Heart, Holidays, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Gray Moulton, LMFT, PLLC Last night I found myself responding to a friend’s post about how sad and disheartening Facebook and the media have become over the past weeks. In my response I realized just how much my views have shifted and how I really...