military parenting

How to Help Our Military Kids Make Friends

Every parent wants their child to make friends. Community is necessary for a quality life, yet it can be challenging… Read More

9 Military Spouses Share Their Top Tips for Solo Parenting

We’ve all been there. Kid one has an ear infection. Kid two is in the throes of the terrible twos.… Read More

Having a Baby Will Change Your Marriage Forever

I read once when I was pregnant that having a baby is like throwing a grenade into the formerly peaceful… Read More

I Battled Postpartum Depression and Found Myself Again

My life as a military spouse consists of the same chaotic rhythms and homesick moments as most. The winds and… Read More

5 Signs Your Child Isn’t Thriving—And What to Do About It

Your child may appear as though they’re thriving. They’re eating dinner with everyone else, making friends on their sports team,… Read More

Military Moms: For the Moments When You Feel Invisible

Two years ago my friend went to England and she brought me some of my very favorite things: chocolate, Jane… Read More

My Last Five Years As A Military Spouse

Teenage love, young military love, the kind that transcends reason, logic, and yet sometimes thrives. So goes my story. The military… Read More

Life at 40 With a Baby, and Another on the Way

My husband and I are expecting our sixth child. And I'm 40. We had always known that we wanted a… Read More

Married But Living the Role of a Single Mother

“Is today Saturday?” I asked myself as I laid in my small twin bed and gazed at the mirror with… Read More

7 Ways To Help Your Child Succeed At School

You are able to help shape your kids into well-educated people. A main problem for many parents is that they do… Read More

Just How Far Does Human Sex Trafficking Reach? It Reached Into My Home

From foreverymom.com, by Scott Jenkins There are people who will stop at nothing to lure your children into sex trafficking.… Read More

9 Disney Songs for Moms to Randomly SING/SCREAM That Fit Our Parenting Moments

FACE IT…If you’re a parent, you know more Disney songs than you care to admit! And whether or not you’ve actually… Read More

Mom’s Hilarious Video Shows The Difference Between Your 1st Pregnancy & All The Rest

From Story of This Life We are cracking up over this all-too-real depiction of your first pregnancy vs. all the… Read More

Shaping Our Shadows: The Power of a Parent

We found ourselves established into a new “old,” routine one month at our new duty station. We dealt with the… Read More

Put some STANK in your Parenting!

Where I come from, when someone does something extra COOL, FUNKY, or with that added UPMH, we turned up our… Read More

We May Be Blended, But We Are A Family

Just after our wedding, a little over two years ago, “his” and “mine” quickly became “ours.” Together, my husband and… Read More

10 Things I’ve Learned From My Military Brats

My daughter wandered into the living room to find me sniffling. "Mom, what's wrong?" I wiped my eyes and blurted,… Read More

An Honest Letter from a Mother Bird in Her Empty Nest

If you would have tapped me on the shoulder in the midst of raising sons while PCSing every 2-3 years and… Read More