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Teaching Children How to Be Humble

Pride destroys relationships. Pride prevents successful conversations, hinders people from accepting responsibility, disregards others, eliminates a person’s ability to compromise or connect, and eradicates vulnerability. When a person struggles to […]

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Student Spotlights – February 2025

Every month we compile a list of students and schools doing great things across our community.  We have so many talented students in our area.  Greater Pensacola Parents joins with [...]
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Fitness and Family Time: Fun Ways to Encourage a Healthy Lifestyle

As our family grows, it is hard to squeeze in everything we have on our to do list. At the end of the day, we end up pushing off exercise […]

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Dinner’s Ready: Mackinley Cross’ Corn Chowder

Mackinley Cross is a retired school teacher with over 20 years spent teaching in an elementary classroom. After retirement, she decided to take on a position as a School Liaison […]

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Why Day Care Is Great For Your Kids

I’ll never forget the first time I dropped off my now-teenage son at day care. He was just three months old, but I had to go back to work and […]

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The Game’s Not for Everyone

I’m 38, and after looking and waiting for years, I think I’ve found a rental property scenario I like. My plan is to take $30,000 out of my retirement account, […]

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Embracing the “Let Them” Theory: A Powerful Approach for Parents

As a devoted reader, I get genuinely excited when I discover a book that can truly benefit parents. Recently, I came across “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins, a […]

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Fun Ways to Inspire Healthy Eating

We’ve all been there: despite our very best efforts – and cajoling – our kids simply won’t eat healthy, home-cooked food. How about trying a new strategy and making healthy […]

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From the Publisher – February 2025

One evening during the holiday break, we ran a slideshow of old photos on the TV, which gave us a brief look at the last several years. As the pictures […]

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Teaching Self-Compassion to Battle Shame

Dr. Brené Brown, who researches emotions, defines shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and, therefore, unworthy of love, belonging, and connection.  Simply […]

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