Phase

Featured | Middle School (6th-8th) | Phase | School Life

Every Middle Schooler Is Asking You a Question. Do You Know the Answer?

You hear the door slam upstairs. Instead of being startled by it, at this point, it’s a well-known, yet unwelcomed sound around your home. Since your kid started sixth grade, they’ve been hard to get along with, hard to get through to.… Read More

Featured | Middle School (6th-8th) | Phase | School Life

4 Conversations to Have With Your Middle Schooler

Middle school is a huge transition.  It’s that time in life when your kid is stepping out of the relative comfort of elementary school and into those strange few years before high school.  It’s important to remember that the middle school years… Read More

Elementary (K-5th) | Featured | Phase

The 6 Things Your New First-Grader Needs

Gone are the tear-stained eyes of a parent driving away on the first day of kindergarten.  Your little one isn’t so little anymore—he’s an experienced student settling into the world of elementary school as a first grader. Just like he reminded you… Read More

Elementary (K-5th) | Family Life | Featured | High School (9th-12th) | Middle School (6th-8th) | Phase

5 Things Worth Celebrating In Each Phase

You know how it is: Your kid changes, throwing your whole world into a tailspin. When you finally get used to this new version of your kid, then . . . BAM! Just when you get accustomed to your kid’s zig, they… Read More

Featured | High School (9th-12th) | Phase

The Question Your High Schooler Is Asking You

Ah, the teenage years.  Without saying more than that, every teen parent reading this blog post felt exactly what that phrase meant on a soul level. Every phase in a kid’s life has its challenges, but the years your kid is in… Read More

Featured | Imagine The End | Phase

How to Help My Kid Find Their Confidence at Every Phase

At every phase, a kid is asking a question. Well, I mean, they’re always asking a ton of questions.  What’s faster—fire or dust? Where do thoughts come from? What’s for dinner? Can I borrow the car?  Those aren’t the kind of questions… Read More

Featured | Phase | School Life | Seasonal

End of School Year: How to Prepare for the Next Phase

Desks empty. Locker doors slammed—and lock combinations forgotten—for the last time. School-issued laptops returned to the front office. Color-coded, structured homeschool schedules loosened up a bit. Ah, yes. Summer is here. School may be out for your kids, but it’s a perfect… Read More

Birth - 5 years | Family Life | Phase

The One Thing That Matters Most in the Preschool Phase

When you first have a baby, there are many questions you start to wonder about parenting, like, What have I gotten myself into?! You may also begin to wonder as you wipe the spit-up off your shirt, Am I doing anything that… Read More