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Family vs Friends | Mom Minute
Do your kids seem to always want to spend time with their friends over spending time with the family? For kids, why do your parents insist on family time? This week’s Mom Minute episode on The Mom’s...
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The Adoption Process | Mom Minute
Adoption has changed me forever… not only me individually, but the collective lives of everyone in my immediate and extended families. This week’s Mom Minute episode on The Mom’s View is about what to...
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How to Deal with Bullying | Mom Minute
I have been hearing a lot of talk lately about bullying, either in the news or from my own children. This is a very sensitive subject to talk about, because it is so damaging and there is absolutely...
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Encouraging Twins’ Personal Identities | Mom Minute
I get asked a lot of questions about how it is raising twins, especially identical twin girls. Many of you may not know that my husband is actually a twin, growing up with a fraternal twin sister. When...
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Family Healthy Eating Habits | Mom Minute
One of the biggest challenges for any busy mom, is to ensure that her family eats healthy when there just is not a lot of time to plan and prepare healthy meals. I totally get it… roles are shifting...
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House Chaos and Depression | Mom Minute
When I showed up to film this episode of Mom Minute, I was not prepared for this topic of depression to be suggested by a viewer. Depression is real, and should never be taken lightly. I have seen it...
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Blended Families | Mom Minute
We often are asked about our older childrens’ reaction when we adopted trans-racially, and I equate it similarly to the preparation and treatment when families are blended {through marriage, with or...
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Quality Time with Your Children | Mom Minute
From the time we were kids, it seems that most of us had always hoped to be our parents’ favorite child, or the teacher’s pet. In some ways, life was a competition… it was easy to see what was...
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New Year’s Resolutions | Mom Minute
New Year’s resolutions are something that are easy to write down, but very difficult to finish. Nobody is perfect in this, and neither am I. {Nobody profits more by this than gyms or fitness classes...
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Sharing a Room | Mom Minute
My twins, Brooklyn and Bailey, have shared a room since they were first born. In fact, the girls had an option a few years ago to each get their own room, and they declined because they love being...
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Making Fitness Fun {with Samantha Harris}
I am going to honest and say that as great as we may be at hairstyles, our family is not as active physically as we should be. We certainly try, but are far from perfect. There is always room for...
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Teenage Peer Pressure | Mom Minute
Those of us who have grown past our teenage years, know of the seriousness of peer pressure. We also know that it will never completely go away as we grow older. What we can do, is condition and...
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Discovering Talents | Mom Minute
I perfectly understand that each child comes into our lives with his/her own set of abilities and hidden talents. It is my role as a parent, to raise these children and to help provide opportunities...
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Eating Disorders | Mom Minute
In today’s episode of Mom Minute, we invited Kati Morton, a licensed marriage and family therapist to talk about a very serious issue today… Eating Disorders. I am not a licensed therapist, nor would I...
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Girls and Makeup, at What Age is it Appropriate?
Many of you know that we’ve been asked the mascara question regarding my daughters’ eyelashes a million times since we started this hairstyle website back in 2008. {Viewers often thought that I used...
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Hard Work and the Value of a Dollar | Mom Minute
For my husband and I, both of our families taught us the value of hard work at a young age. It is something we felt was important enough to do the same with our own kids. Farrah, a fan on YouTube...
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Spoiling Your Children | Mom Minute
Today’s Mom Minute topic is about spoiled children. We’ve all known some, have spoiled our own, or perhaps even been one. There is a definitely a huge difference between providing for a child’s needs...
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Kid Safety & Technology | Mom Minute
I know this will probably date me, but I distinctly remember my mom limiting me and my siblings’ game time on the Coleco Vision game system when I was young. It always seemed unfair at the time, but...
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Babysitting 101 | Mom Minute
I currently only have Brooklyn and Bailey, age 14, who are of babysitting age. In our home, it isn’t so much about age, but how responsible the child is, that allows me to feel comfortable to let them...
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Parents and Facebook | Mom Minute
As parents, we need to be very careful with social media and internet safety in our homes, especially as it relates to our children. We need to be very vigilant, and aware of what our kids are doing...
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