morning routine

Tweens, Teens & College

Set your child’s internal alarm clock

Rousing a sleeping teen is a parenting challenge that spans the ages. Rather than wasting time returning to your teen's room over...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Chasing the Dream: Start the day positively

Hey, Mama! We all know that when you wake up on the wrong foot, the whole day has to struggle to improve. But why does starting the...

Makeup & Skin Care

5 Essentials for the 5-minute face

Your morning beauty routine shouldn't take long at all. With just a few essential products, you can create a flawless face in under...

Endless Summer

6 Easy ways to jump-start your day

Not everyone rises with the sun to usher in a new day with ease. If you're not a morning person, try our six-step plan to...

School Age Kids

Get back your back-to-school routine

Before you know it, school will be back in session. Before the bell starts ringing, you need to get your family back on the school...

School Fashion

10 Tips for getting kids out the door

School mornings can be hectic, no matter how old your kids are. This school year, make things a little easier by preparing the night...

Wellness

Tips to look rested

Don't you hate it when someone says you look tired? Maybe you are and maybe you aren't. Either way, it's no compliment. Yes,...

Parenting How-to

How to simplify your kids' morning routine

A hurried, hectic morning can make you frazzled all day. With a little preparation and organization, you can simplify your kids'...

Parenting Tips & Advice

How to simplify the family's morning and bedtime routine

Are your kids having a hard time with mornings and there isn’t enough coffee in the world to fix it? Do you dread bedtime with a...

Super Moms Guide: Cooking & Cleaning

Starting a breakfast tradition with your kids

Skipping breakfast can mean your children go 16 hours or more without eating anything. This lack of nutrition can leave them feeling...

Preschoolers

5 Tips to manage the morning meltdown

Are your mornings a chaotic rush of lunch packing, missing shoes, and not enough coffee? Do you sometimes feel like your kids aren't...

Preschoolers

5 Fun morning games with your preschooler

Not everyone is a morning person, and for some kids, it can be really hard to get them going when its early. Here are 5 morning game...

Fashion for Moms

Moms in the morning: Get ready in no time flat

If you spend so much time getting ready in the morning that you risk being late on a regular basis, it’s time to re-organize your...

Beauty basics

Real women speak: Morning beauty routines that work

It’s so much easier to get the kids ready in the morning when they have a routine. Well, the same holds true for you, Mom....

Beauty basics

How to make your look last all day long

Why spend all that time making yourself beautiful every morning if it's just going to fade away by mid-day? These tips will get you...

Best beauty buys

7 Must-have morning beauty products

If you wake up in the morning feeling like a slow crawl to the coffee machine is too much work, you need products you can rely on to...

School Tips for Moms

10 Tips to get kids ready for school

September’s almost upon us, and the kids will soon be back in school. It’s time to kick off the flip flops, pull up your socks, and...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Teaching kids to take charge of morning routine

Some of us moms are not exactly morning people. Getting the kids up and going is a challenge not because of any action on the kids'...

Organizing & Cleaning

8 Dos and don'ts to simplify your morning routine

Everything seems to be a little more complicated these days -- and the chaos begins first thing in the morning! But the a.m. routine...

Children's School & Education

7 Ways to motivate kids in the morning

Most parents agree that mornings can be a hectic time -- especially when trying to motivate sleepy kids! De-stress your morning...