How to Keep Your Sanity When It’s Back-to-School Time

Focusing on Things That Matter Mom

5 Tips for Mom’s Back-to-School Sanity

1.  Heal self-defeating thoughts: “I stunk at math and my kids will stink too!” This was my greatest self-sabotaging thought as a Mom, and I had to heal! As Moms we allow toxic negative thoughts to run through our minds every single day. It’s time to stop it this school year! Moms can be defeated in their parenting before they get out of bed in the morning. Thoughts can’t be removed—they have to be replaced. So here is what every Mom needs to try: Face the fear. Just because you aren’t good at math, for example, doesn’t mean that’s going to be your child’s truth. It’s hard, but arrest those thoughts as soon as they enter into your mind (handcuff it literally). Then replace the negative “Jimmy isn’t going to “get” math thought with “Jimmy is smart, resourceful and able to do it!” (Plus Mom, you can hire a tutor or grab a homework coach to support him). Repeat these “healing” thoughts and strategies every time those old self-defeating ones come up.

Pet Friendly Tips for Your Yard from TurfMutt

TurfMutt National Dog Day

Celebrate National Dog Day by Sprucing up Your Backyard

Planted and cared for properly, your backyard can offer an outdoor living room for family, children and pets. It can also support biodiversity, foster health benefits for humans and pets, and benefit the environment. In honor of National Dog Day, Saturday, August 26, 2017, TurfMutt encourages pet owners to spruce up their backyard with these five pet-friendly tips.