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Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

13 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Kids REFUSE to Do

Raising a mentally strong kid requires parents to avoid the common yet unhealthy parenting practices that rob kids of mental strength.

Erica DeSpain

Erica DeSpain is the author of WhimsicalSeptember.com, an entertainment source for young families that covers topics such as affordable fashion, easy homemade meals, manageable travel, healthy relationships, faith, and more. She is a firm believer in balance, and practices this in the form of 5 a.m. workouts and nightly dessert. Cheers!

Dear Mama Whose Heart is Twisted About Having Another Baby

"A few months ago my 2-year-old daughter and I were driving home from dinner and as we pulled onto our street a lump formed in my throat and big, ugly tears began to stream down my face; I realized that tonight was our very last night ever just the two of us to do my daughter’s bath time and bedtime routine..."