Emily Johnson
7 Way Setting Screen Time Boundaries with Babysitters and Grandparents (Without the Awkward Drama) Setting screen time boundaries with babysitters and grandparents is one of those parenting conversations that sits in a special category of awkward. Not because it’s inherently complicated. But because the people involved are people you love, people you’re dependent on, people …
Signs Your Child Needs More of Your Attention — And How to Respond Before It Gets Harder Every child, at some point, needs more from you than they’re currently getting. This is not an indictment of your parenting. It is not a sign that you have failed or that something has gone fundamentally wrong. It …
Weekend Family Activities That Don’t Cost a Fortune (50+ Real Ideas for Every Age) There is a version of family life that gets sold to us constantly. It involves tickets. It involves entrance fees and gift shops and the particular financial sinkhole of theme park food. It involves kids in matching outfits at resorts, families …
Parenting Through the Tween Years Without Losing Your Mind (Real Talk for Real Parents) Nobody tells you about the tween years when they’re warning you about the hard parts of parenting. They tell you about newborn sleep deprivation. They tell you about the tantrum years, the back-arching two-year-old on the floor of the grocery store, …
Why Your Kids Need Individual Attention Even With Siblings (And How to Give It) Here is something that took me an embarrassingly long time to understand: my children do not share a need for me. That sounds obvious when I say it out loud. Of course they don’t. They are separate people with separate interior …
How to Reconnect With Your Child After a Busy Season (Without Making It Weird) Nobody warns you that parenting can make you feel absent even when you’re physically present. You were there — technically. You made the dinners and signed the permission slips and drove them to practice and helped with the homework that you …
Ways to Spend One-on-One Time with an Older Child (That They’ll Actually Want to Do) There’s a particular kind of loneliness that sneaks up on parents of older kids. When your children were small, connection felt automatic. You held them, fed them, carried them, read to them seventeen times in a row because they couldn’t …
Why Stopping a Strict Bedtime Routine Worked for Us (And Might Work for You Too) It was 9:47 PM on a Tuesday, and I was sitting on the bathroom floor, forehead resting against the cold cabinet door, listening to my four-year-old scream for the eleventh night in a row. We had done everything right. Or …
Fun Family Game Night Ideas at Home: 50+ Ways to Bring Everyone Together (2026) There is a specific kind of evening I think about more than I probably should. It was a Friday in November. The kind of Friday that had been relentlessly grey since Monday. The children had been inside all week because the …
Breastfeeding Tips for New Mums: The Honest Guide to Getting It Right (2026) Nobody warned me that breastfeeding would be the hardest thing I did in those first weeks. Not the birth. Not the sleep deprivation — though that was a close second. Breastfeeding. I had assumed it would be instinctive. Natural. The word is …
