May 21, 2020 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Homeschooling, Middle School
By TMoM Team Member Laura Simon For the better part of this school year, I’ve been fighting with my 10-year-old over fractions. In case it’s been awhile for you (and it has been awhile for me), let me summarize the average problem. First, you have to convert mixed...
May 20, 2020 | From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Pam Hondros I was in my later 30’s when I got married and had my son. My hilarious friend has always bumped our ages up to the next decade. In our 20’s, she’d say “We 30” or at 35, I was already 40 according to her! So, she scared me to death about...
Apr 30, 2020 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Working Parents
By Guest Blogger Sarah Brennan I am a full-time single mom with a full-time job at a large online sports betting company. My business is 24/7 and high profile. My responsibilities at work are massive and during this uncertain time, my department is responsible for...
Apr 8, 2020 | Children's Health & Wellness, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Michelle Griffith My 5.5 year old boy was recently diagnosed with ADHD and ODD. I think by now, most people are familiar with ADHD. ODD or Oppositional Defiant Disorder might be a term you’re not so familiar with. A quick Google search defines ODD...
Mar 16, 2020 | By Stage, Crafts & Hobbies, Elementary Age, Health, High Point, Hot Topics, Kernersville, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Recreation, Safety, Toddlers & Preschool, Winston-Salem
By Guest Blogger Carrie Sockwell, author of Our Carolina Home Over the past week, the effects of COVID-19 have taken a toll on all of us one way or another. Then the closing of schools and daycares left many wondering what we’re going to do for the two or...
Nov 19, 2019 | From the Heart, Humor, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Laura Simon I bought some lipstick at Target last week. That might not seem like anything special, but I haven’t owned lipstick in at least three years. Maybe longer. The last tube I remember having was one of those free samples you get from Clinique, and I haven’t...
Oct 30, 2019 | By Stage, Health, Parenting & Family, Safety, Teens & Tweens, Tweens & Teens
By Guest Blogger Marybeth Barrett Do you want some not so fun facts? Car crashes end more teen lives than cancer, homicide and suicide Council EVERY single day, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Yup. That caught my attention, too. Car crashes are 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...
Sep 6, 2019 | Family Time, Humor, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Alyssa Tabacca, author of Driving the Big Van As a college football coach’s wife, I think it necessary to categorize my year into seasons. A lot of how we live our day-to-day life changes based on the season we are in…and it just so happens that...
Aug 19, 2019 | Adults, By Stage, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Anna Keller Long before I became pregnant with my now-toddler, I worried about what having a child would mean for my relationship with my husband. Kevin and I had always split housework evenly, including tasks like grocery shopping, cooking, laundry,...
Jul 22, 2019 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger, Julie Fritz There I was, in the parking lot of the DMV, crying my eyes out. A full on ugly cry that I could not control. But why, why was I sobbing so hard on this day? Well, I was in a place I think a lot of us find ourselves in. I had hit my limit....
Jun 7, 2019 | Children's Health & Wellness, Education, Health, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Teens & Tweens
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...
Jun 4, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, Food & Nutrition, Food Allergies / Diets / Restrictions, Health, Nutrition
By Guest Blogger Marybeth Barrett, Certified FASTer Way to Fat Loss Coach I feel like there is something good brewing. Yes, in all the madness of the world, I see a silver lining. There seems to be some self-care mindsets trending among moms/women. No matter the...
May 29, 2019 | Babies, By Stage, Health, Recreation, Safety, Vacations & Weekend Trips
By Katie Moosbrugger For lots of moms, summertime can be anything but relaxing. From endless sunscreen latherings (one of my biggest pet peeves), to constant monitoring of your little toddler’s every last move near water, to your never-ending quest to find...
Apr 25, 2019 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Homeschooling, Middle School
By Laura Simon Like many parents and teachers, one of my biggest frustrations with the educational system is the testing. I’ve always felt it consumed too much learning time, I knew the results could be wildly skewed, and I hated how it drove every aspect of what...
Apr 9, 2019 | From the Heart, Just for Dads, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Ed Jones During my 60-plus years on this wondrous and wacky planet, I’ve been called a lot of different names. There have been the lovely, self-esteem-building middle school names: “Dumbo Ears.” “Pinocchio Nose.” “Ferret Face.” There’ve also been some...
Apr 4, 2019 | Adults, By Stage, Family Time, From the Heart, Humor, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Alyssa Tabacca, author of Driving the Big Van Parents talk about buying their minivan as a right of passage. I could tell you about the day we realized we’d outgrown the mini and traded up to a Big Van. When our wonderful #5 was born we realized we...
Mar 30, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Health, Parenting & Family, Pregnancy & Babies
By Guest Blogger Felicity Lewis While pregnancy is a beautiful process and an amazing experience, it totally rocks your world. All of a sudden, you find yourself worrying about so many different aspects of your world. While pregnant, we worry about the mundane—the...
Mar 6, 2019 | Adults, From the Heart, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Julie Fritz Being a mom is amazing. It is the absolute greatest joy I have ever experienced in my life. But sometimes it is also really hard. I am a classic overachiever. If I’m gonna do something, I want to do it well. I was worried about that when...
Feb 26, 2019 | Education, Homeschooling
By Laura Simon February. It’s the month that made me question all my life choices when I was teaching other people’s children, and it’s no different now that I’m homeschooling my own kids. It’s the month where the newness of the school year is long worn off, the...
Feb 4, 2019 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Single Parenting
By Guest Blogger Lauren Falber “Wait, what?” It’s the question I get asked the most when explaining how my ex husband walked out on me and our kids on our 5-year wedding anniversary nearly four years ago. “But, you’re like,...
Jan 15, 2019 | Education, Elementary, Elementary Age, Preschool, Private Schools, Winston-Salem
By Julie Smith, Director of Lower School at Summit School In my many years of experience with parents of very young children, one of the most frequent questions I receive is the wondering if a child is on track to learn to read. Parents want to know what they can do...
Jan 4, 2019 | From the Heart, Humor, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Michelle Griffith After I wrote the title of this blog, I pulled out my phone and went to Dictionary.com to look up the true meaning of the word selfish… sel*fish (adj.) 1. devoted to...
Dec 5, 2018 | Holidays, Humor, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Laura Simon When I was a youngish mom of babies, I scoured Pinterest to create a heap of meaningful holiday traditions for my kids. (In case you were wondering, Pinterest was BRAND NEW at that point.) My kids were barely old enough to comprehend anything other than...
Dec 1, 2018 | Books, Supplies & Gear, Education, Elementary, Elementary Age
By Guest Blogger Kelly Sipe Schools are gearing up around the Triad! If you have a rising Kindergartener, we hope today’s post will be beneficial to you. Written by a local teacher, these tips are ones you will want to keep in your back pocket. Feel free to add...
Nov 22, 2018 | From the Heart, Holidays, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family
By Guest Blogger Jennifer Mearns, author of the blog The Undomestic Goddess As a mom, it can be hard sometimes to remember all the wonderful things you have in your life when parenting small children, keeping up with their various schedules, and keeping a house...
Nov 13, 2018 | Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger Nicole Ducouer This is my first post for Triad Moms on Main, and I’m looking forward to sharing some of my thoughts as I’ve made my transition from news anchor at WXII to head of corporate communication for a local nonprofit, IFB Solutions, which is...
Nov 6, 2018 | Elementary Age, Health, Parenting & Family, Raising Children, Safety
By Laura Simon I really want to be a free-range parent. Something about that particular parenting style resonates in my gut. I believe it’s good for kids to be trained, prepared, and then allowed to navigate the world without adults hovering in the background. I...
Oct 29, 2018 | Adult Health & Wellness, Adults, By Stage, From the Heart, Health, Just for Moms, Moms & Dads
By Guest Blogger Suzy Fielders October is breast cancer awareness month. While most of us are aware of that, the sad fact is most still aren’t fully aware of all that breast cancer entails. I interviewed four local women for this blog. All are amazing moms and women...
Sep 26, 2018 | Adult Health & Wellness, From the Heart, Health, Moms & Dads, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Laura Simon I suppose our hobbies find us when we need them, and that’s certainly been the case for my relationship with running. After I had kids, the sport that I loathed with a passion through my teens and twenties suddenly became a discipline that spoke to me....
