Average Supermom https://www.averagesupermom.com Able to leap small children with a good running start and not spill my wine. Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:42:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How to help your toddler sleep through the night https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-help-your-toddler-sleep-through-the-night/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-help-your-toddler-sleep-through-the-night/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2020 20:10:24 +0000 https://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2694 Just when you think you have sailed past the sleepless baby nights, your toddler decides it’s time for a sleep regression. As if not getting a full night of sleep for a couple of years wasn’t bad enough, here you go again. Even though it might seem like it, our little ones don’t do this […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-help-your-toddler-sleep-through-the-night/feed/ 3 Anti-Resolutions: My Forecast for the 2020s https://www.averagesupermom.com/its-a-new-decade-my-anti-resolutions-for-the-2020s/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/its-a-new-decade-my-anti-resolutions-for-the-2020s/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:33:00 +0000 https://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2676 Hi! Welcome to 2020. I don’t know if you noticed (ha!), but it’s a whole new decade. In my small corner of the world, the next 10 years will be pivotal. I will be hitting a ton of “timeline” milestones in the ’20s. Each new year, I make some half-assed attempt at resolutions, but it always […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/its-a-new-decade-my-anti-resolutions-for-the-2020s/feed/ 1 25 Easy Ways to Play With Your Toddler https://www.averagesupermom.com/25-easy-ways-to-play-your-toddler/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/25-easy-ways-to-play-your-toddler/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2020 02:44:26 +0000 https://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2662 Finding easy ways to play with your toddler can sometimes be a challenge. If you are like me, most days, I’m exhausted or distracted or, being an older mom, just not into getting down on the floor and playing. But doing exactly that is what our kids crave from us. Our kids want our attention […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/im-an-older-mom-thats-ok/feed/ 5 Moving Our Family Across the Country – Part 3: Two Years Later https://www.averagesupermom.com/moving-our-family-across-the-country-part-3/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/moving-our-family-across-the-country-part-3/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:55:12 +0000 https://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2646 It seems like yesterday that we were packing up and moving our family across the country, but it has been two years now. I’ll get this out of the way up front – this move has not been easy for us. If you are new to this blog, in late 2017, we picked our family […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/moving-our-family-across-the-country-part-3/feed/ 0 How to Hold Family Meetings https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-hold-family-meetings/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-hold-family-meetings/#comments Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:00:50 +0000 https://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2631 If your family is anything like ours, you are all constantly running in different directions. With two working parents, a teen and a toddler, our schedules can get out of control. One simple way to reign in the chaos is to hold a family meeting. A few years ago, our work schedules and our daughter’s […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-hold-family-meetings/feed/ 1 Great Gift Ideas for New Moms Over 40 https://www.averagesupermom.com/gift-ideas-for-new-moms-over-40/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/gift-ideas-for-new-moms-over-40/#respond Fri, 03 Jan 2020 15:27:50 +0000 http://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2507 Becoming a new mom over 40 is different in so many ways from having a baby in your 20s or 30s. Probably the biggest difference is what type of gear you need, or want, really. When I was pregnant with Ava, I was 30 and the first of my friends to have a baby. I […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/gift-ideas-for-new-moms-over-40/feed/ 0 How to Keep Your Family on Schedule https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-keep-your-family-on-schedule/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-keep-your-family-on-schedule/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:10:09 +0000 http://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2536 Learning how to keep your family on schedule is not always easy. Throw in a few kids, pets, a full time job or a two career household and things can get pretty chaotic. From getting the kids to where they need to go, to feeding them, keeping the house a level above condemnation and finding […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/how-to-keep-your-family-on-schedule/feed/ 0 Why Your Kids Should Love Space https://www.averagesupermom.com/kids-love-space/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/kids-love-space/#respond Wed, 17 Jul 2019 02:36:52 +0000 http://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2587 Growing up in Houston, I have always been interested in space since NASA was right in my backyard. I loved space so much that I made it my career and even wrote a children’s book about space exploration. I mean, the many stories of our nation’s great accomplishments in space exploration are reason enough to […]

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]]> https://www.averagesupermom.com/kids-love-space/feed/ 0 How to Potty Train Your Kid Without Going Crazy https://www.averagesupermom.com/potty-train-your-kid/ https://www.averagesupermom.com/potty-train-your-kid/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:28:22 +0000 http://www.averagesupermom.com/?p=2561 This post contains affiliate links. I will earn a small commission off of products you buy from those links. I know you may not believe this, but you can potty train your kid without going crazy. With some clear expectations, patience, the right tools and boundaries you can have your toddler out of diapers in no […]

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