Why Your Child’s Creativity at Home Matters More Than Grades
Growing up, all my parents cared about were grades. They made me feel that if I got good grades, that was what made me lovable, and if I didn’t get perfect scores… Well, lets just say that that was part of why I unschooled my kids, because I wanted my kids to have a love […]
How Teaching Kids Programming Can Help Break the Poverty Cycle: A Personal Story
When I got married at 18, without any way to support myself, and my then-husband, at 20, had no real means to provide for a family, we were setting ourselves up for failure. My son recently asked what we were thinking—how we planned to support ourselves—and honestly, we weren’t thinking about it. Ridiculous, I know. […]
How to Find Reliable TV Aerial Installers in Your Area
I like doing things on my own instead of paying someone to do it for me. Whenever possible. However, there are times that it is worth spending the money on getting professionals to do a job for you. When you want to install antennas (called aerials in Brit speak) for your TV, here are some […]
Baby Monitor That Will Save You A Lot Of Money And Hassle
I remember the first baby monitors I saw- we had some in my childhood home so my parents could hear my little brother or sister when they were napping in their room. As a parent, I didn’t use baby monitors, because my kids co-slept with me, and we lived in a very small house where […]
Will AI Replace Psychologists? Exploring the Future of Therapy and Human Connection
AI. Love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. I’m one of those people who uses AI regularly, ChatGPT is constantly open on my screen. I use it for this blog, to help me format stuff and to avoid busy work so I can focus on things that actually matter to me. Some people […]
Why You Should Get a Virtual Card (Even If You Already Have a Physical One)
Credit cards are useful everywhere in life. You can’t really survive in the adult world these days without plastic, with online shopping and many stores being cash free. Well, interesting that I used the word plastic, since credit cards are associated with plastic, but there are virtual cards these days which… being virtual, dont actually […]
The Future of Mental Healthcare: How Strategic Planning Can Drive Change
Once upon a time, therapy used to be seen as this taboo, hush hush thing that we can’t talk about, because it says there’s something seriously wrong with you. Fortunately the attitude towards therapy has changed, and it no longer is embarassing to refer to your therapist, or talk about going to therapy. It is […]
New Site Live on WordPress!
Happy 37th birthday to me! As a birthday present for myself, I decided to finally finish getting my WordPress site live. I’m writing this before it goes live, so fingers crossed that the final bit actually works! I’m not a web designer, I’m completely self taught, muddling along over the years. Way back in the […]
Why Hiring a Professional for TV Mounting is Worth It
As I’m writing this, I’m looking at the TV that I mounted myself in my bedroom… that is currently broken, and serves more as a clothes hanger than anything else. I had taken down the TV from its mount for something and when I tried putting it back on, it fell a drop, and I […]
Social Media and Online Solicitation of Minors: How to Keep Kids Safe
Social media and kids, oh boy is that a loaded topic. Some people say absolutely not, not until they are much older. Some give from a young age. Some only give with very strict supervision. Every parent does what they consider best based on what they know after talking to professionals. But it is a […]
