parents

I will be the first to admit that before I had children I swore I wasn't going to bribe them. Then I started potty training and out came the candy. By the time my kids started school I was bribing them, or as I like to call it...rewarding them, with toys.

Helping a child at a park just seems like the right thing to do, right? Apparently, this isn't always the case. Last month, my family and I were at a park in Washington. A little boy approached me and asked me to lift him onto a swing.

The modern parents are juggling a lot of things. Most parents both work. Most kids are involved in some sort of extra curricular activity, or have 3 hours of homework.

We all post pictures of our kids on Instagram or on Facebook. It's our way of keeping our out-of-town friends and family caught up on what our kids are doing. But, have you ever wondered if these pictures will embarrass your kids later on in life?

A few weekends ago I was reading one of mommy magazines on our way back from a family vacation. As I was reading I was feeling like a slight failure. All of the articles were about, "Amazing Mommy Projects", that I would never attempt. Then I came across an article that would change my everyday life.

This story about couples using GPS to track one another struck me as kind of odd.  I mean, if you have to use a GPS to really know where your husband or wife is, you might have problems that a GPS isn't going to fix. Most of you who called the show seemed to agree...

John Berlin lost his son in 2012.  In this heartfelt video, he made a plea to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to allow him access to his son's Facebook account so that he could watch his son's facebook "lookback movie" about his life.  You know, the same Facebook feature that they created for their 10th year anniversary...

Most of us believed everything our parents told us when we were little. I remember sitting at the dinner table, choking down every last carrot on my plate because my Grandfather had told me, "if you don't eat your carrots you'll go blind".

Teaching your kids right from wrong can be difficult. I like to think I have a good outlook on what is wrong and what is right but explaining the "rules of the world" can be difficult. My three year old has asked me many times if "heck" is a naughty word...

My kids have been begging for a trampoline for the past year so we finally gave in and put one in the back yard. My kids love it! And I have to admit...it's almost as cool as when I was little. My siblings and I lived on our trampoline from 3 years of age to 18 years of age. It was the one toy that never got old.

My dad always told me, "You are what you hang out with", so this makes perfect sense to me. According to Addicted2Success you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.  So if you hang out with burned-out losers, ultimately they'll drag you down, if they haven't already.

Yesterday I took a road trip with my parents. It was actually quit fun except for the fact that we are all controlling drivers. My mom loves to give directions, but only if the directions don't include any main roads, and my dad likes to make sure I still know what ten o'clock and two o'clock mean.