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Teach your Kids About the Ocean While Stuck at Home
Here in Scottsdale, we may be far from the ocean, but that doesn’t mean its not important to our families. Teach your kids about the ocean while we're all spending extra time at home.
Just...
Tips to Help You Structure the Days and Weeks Ahead
Have you been looking for tips to help you structure the days and weeks ahead? Phoenix Children's Hospital has generously offered ideas for our community!
As parents, we want to make sure we are doing...
Kindness Calendars
What are your resolutions for the New Year? If your thoughts immediately jump to more energy, better relationships or just more of that much needed “me” time it may be a good opportunity to...
5 Foods to Make You Happy
It’s widely known that stress, anxiety and depression all affect your mental health, but many don’t know that improving your mood could be as simple as choosing the right food. Your microbiome, which is...
Nannies 101
Is it just me, or does the word “nanny” have a magical vibe coming from it? The classic Mary Poppins is anything but an ordinary nanny, from her quick and fun clean up abilities...
There’s Value in Skinned Knees: The Importance of Risk
A guy with a gun hollered. “Don’t touch it!” These are the words I’ll never forget hearing while visiting a modern art museum in the Midwest. As the kids walked through the exhibits, I...
Celebrating National Adoption Month – An Adoptive Mom’s Story
November is National Adoption Month – a month-long celebration that began in 1995 by Presidential Proclamation as a way to raise awareness for the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care in need...
Celebrating Literacy Day
Trusting Connections and Arizonans for Children partner to kickoff National Family Literacy Month with an event on Nov. 1 for National Family Literacy Day.
With a legacy of supporting the communities they serve, Trusting Connections Nanny Agency is proud to partner with Phoenix based non-profit, Arizonans for...
The Modern Mother
Society, Grandparents, Friends, Neighbors, Professional colleagues — many of us to new moms:
Breast is best, but obviously not in public. You should co-sleep, but it is so unsafe. You should go back to work...
#SquadGoals: Building Self-Confidence for our Girls
It's never too early to start building self-confidence in our girls. It happened the other day. I caught her looking intensely in the mirror. Scrutinizing her face, concentrating, judging. Assessing her appearance and coming...
The Impact of Sugary Drinks on Children’s Teeth
By Dr. Cayce Wallace
Pediatric Dentist
Arcadia Pediatric Dental
We all love sweets, and kids often love sweet drinks such as soda, sports drinks, and fruit juice. Unfortunately, sugary beverages can cause a host of dental...
Super Lice and What You Need to Know
Our children have settled into their new school year (yay for making it through the long, hot summer), but now we have to worry about all sorts of germs and the possibility of our...
Help! I Can’t Stand My Child’s New Teacher
Whether you've heard rumors or your child's new teacher just isn't quite as warm and fuzzy as you expected, going into a new school year with reservations can create tension for everyone.
Whether you like...
New Mom on the Block
Let's talk about the new mom on the block. We have all experienced being new. Even if you have lived in the same zip code your entire life, you have probably attended a new...
Benefits of Gadgets in a Child’s Life
Among young mothers, disputes regarding the benefits and harm of gadgets for children do not subside. How can electronics help the development of your baby, and how to organize his acquaintance with a smartphone,...
Phoenix Mom and Son Launch “Babies at the Border Need Blankets”
Since becoming a mom 9 years ago, the thought of any child suffering has become agonizing to me. So, when I recently heard about the horrible living conditions of many asylum-seeking migrant children detained...