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Iowa City Area Preschool Guide 2017
Welcome to the Iowa City Moms Blog Preschool Guide 2017! Searching for the right place for your child to learn and grow can be overwhelming, so we are here to help. There are an...
Iowa City Holiday Guide 2016
Welcome to Iowa City Moms Blog's Holiday Guide 2016!
We love our city, and we love the holidays, so what could be better than the combination of the two?! To make planning your holidays simple and...
Top Ten Children’s Books for Ages 2-5
The research is clear. Reading aloud to children is one of the single most important things a parent can do to encourage language development and build a solid foundation for success in school and...
Confess, Apologize, Change: A Mother’s Paradigm for Social Justice
Our country is in turmoil.
News stories pile up on top of each other, tragedies upon tragedies, more pain and violence than anyone can fully understand or bear. People are hurting, desperate, misunderstood, afraid, and...
Team Motherhood
We all started out with a game plan.
From that first moment when we gasped in surprise at the pregnancy test in the early morning hours, we began to make our plan.
We read the books....
In Defense of Grocery Store Grandmas and In-Laws
Every mother has experienced it. You're minding your own business, trying to read your grocery list off your phone with one hand, pushing your cart full of preschoolers and produce with the other, when...
Raising Readers: 6 Effective Tips for Instilling a Love of Reading
Today is Read Across America Day! The birthday of one of the most famous and beloved children's authors of all time, Dr. Seuss, Read Across America Day is a nationwide movement for motivating and...
It’s the Little Things: Finding Love in the Beautiful Minutiae
It's the little things.
Ten tiny baby toes, soft and pudgy, toenails so small they might as well be glitter.
White onesies, hanging from the clothesline in a neat row, swaying and dancing in the breeze...
New Year’s Resolution: No More Yelling
"Mommy, you yelled at me. You said, 'Get back in your bed!' and you put me in my bed and walked away. And it made me sad. And I wanted to walk...
An Advent Calendar of Christmas Traditions
Now that Thanksgiving is over, and the Christmas season has officially begun, we will all begin to feel the pressure to
GET READY!
BUY STUFF!
WRAP PRESENTS!
DECORATE!
MAKE MEMORIES!
TAKE PICTURES!
ENJOY EVERYTHING!
It's a lot of pressure. There is too...