Melanie Amorim aka Mommy Doodles
Many everyday items like boxes, newspaper, and packages enter the house, serve their purpose and are thrown out. Unfortunately, this causes many people to miss out on some great opportunities to get crafty at home with the kids or reuse some inexpensive items for great gain in the home. Below are some fun and useful [...]
From tree-lined streets to nearby grocery stores and backyards just waiting to be explored, there’s a lot to consider when hunting for a new family home. It’s an exciting time to be sure, but it can also be fraught with the overwhelming pressure to pick the “perfect” home — a concept that may vary greatly [...]
You know that your kids need their vegetables, but they’re probably not so sure of it themselves. Convince them by sneaking hidden healthiness into kid-favorite recipes. How you may ask? With the help of one of the easiest-to-use kitchen gadgets: the crock pot. What’s so great about crock pot cooking? Well, the flavors permeate the [...]
Nearly one third of all students aged 12-18 are bullied at some point in their educational career, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. With so many students experiencing bullying, parents need to know how to protect and equip their children. Also on the rise in schools, sexual harassment is thought to have a [...]
We’ve all heard the saying, “You’ve got to spend money to make money!” However, when you’re organizing a fundraising event that can seem like a counter-intuitive notion. After all, most nonprofits aren’t rolling in the dough. If they were, they wouldn’t be fundraising. Instead, it’s best to think about ways to fundraise without a large initial expenditure. Whether you are [...]
I’m not a big fan of taking care of car-related repairs. I’m sure it’s born from long hours spent in the driveway with my dad trying to repair the old pickup I drove around in high school. Inevitably, we wouldn’t be able to fix the problem, we’d both be cranky and I’d still have to [...]
Like it or not, your child is bound to become obsessed with technology. Setting up an iPad-free zone and establishing non-video game hours will help control your child’s tech impulses, but they’ll do little to quell the deeper thirst. Especially as more and more classrooms are getting connected. So instead of burning the fire, why [...]
