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Quality Time with Parents... Yay? or Nay?
Quality Time with Parents... Yay? or Nay?
Taking your parents to lunch is a gesture that many don’t realize how important it can be for the parents.  When your kids grow up, get jobs, and live their own life it could be difficult to coordinate quality time. Below is my siblings and I all together for once, and wow my dad was so happy! And to...
Bullies in Billings? Here’s How To Deal With Them
Bullies in Billings? Here’s How To Deal With Them
When I was a teenager, I got bullied pretty badly. Girls would corner me at my locker, trying to get a reaction out of me. Then one day, they got the reaction they weren’t looking for.   My mom noticed I was coming home stressed out every day after school when I was in 7th grade. I told he...
How Do You Deal With Work And Kids When School Is Out?
How Do You Deal With Work And Kids When School Is Out?
Summer vacation is only weeks away and once again, working parents will have to make arrangements to juggle child care with their work schedule. I thought I'd ask around the office to see if any of the other parents had any recommendations and two of them brought up The Boys And Girls Club...
Is it OK to Leave Child in the Car?
Is it OK to Leave Child in the Car?
On April 14, 2015 a Billings woman made a quick stop at a hardware store in the heights. She made a choice that many parents have made at some point. She chose to leave her child in the vehicle while she went in the store to grab something...
Common Core is 'Nonsense'
Common Core is 'Nonsense'
Let me start by saying that I have great respect for teachers. I am not saying that because I am trying to endear myself to anyone or to get some warm and fuzzy feeling. I am saying it because I have a child who goes to school. I'm saying it because I try to be a good parent and help my child with her homework, which gives me just the slightest glimpse into her teacher's experience...