How to Keep the Kids Busy on Thanksgiving

Here are a few ways to keep the kids busy so you can sit and enjoy your meal?  1. Get them ready to dress the part. Have tables ready with construction paper, glue and scissors and let the kids make fun pilgrim or turkey hats. Or buy kits that are ready to go on Native […]

14 Tips for Being a Good Guest

Spending Thanksgiving with friends or relatives? Here are a few things to remember…so they invite you back. Arrive when you say you will arrive. Don’t show up earlier.  Bring a gift to say “thank you” when you arrive. Remember that your hostess is not a tour guide or babysitter. If you want to see the […]

RHS Baseball Car Wash

Sunday October, 21 • 10 am to 2:30 pm Support the Ridgewood High School Baseball team will hold it’s Bi-annual Car Wash this Sunday October, 21 from 10 am to 2:30 pm at the RHS parking lot. There are $10 donation tickets being sold or you can choose to donate as much as you would like once your […]

Help Your Child Find the Perfect Costume

The costume can make or break the holiday. Choose and guide carefully.

When Halloween is Too Scary for Her

My 17 year old doesn’t like Halloween. She is the kid who double checks all the doors are locked every night and scolds my husband and me when we are lax about safety. It follows she wouldn’t care for a macabre holiday. She doesn’t understand why I would want fake blood, headless figures and  scary […]

Do Not Watch Sixteen Candles with Your Kids

What I thought was sharing part of my teenage years with my girls, turned into a revelation for me.

The 10 Best Pieces of Advice I Got When I Had a Baby

Parenting is a funny and unique thing. You think you will be great at it until you are actually doing it. This doesn’t happen with other skills. I never looked at a professional skier and thought, “Why would he do that? I would do it totally differently.” I never saw a surgeon make the first […]

Should You Read Your Child’s Texts?

Should you be checking in on your teen's primary method of communication?