Pittsburgh Mom Collective

I have 5 school aged kids. 5 kids lugging home crafts, projects, tests, photos, notebooks, and journals from school. 5 kids needing forms signed, tests reviewed, homework checked. Even in this digital age, there are still papers literally piling up...

We are a home-school family.  My daughter is enrolled in an online, public charter school. The school provides an asynchronous, well-crafted and varied curriculum with a great amount of materials and support.  I, as her "learning coach," ultimately control...

  We, as mothers, have all been there. It haunts us day and night, the over flowing piles of laundry which never gets completely done because there is no place to put the laundry once it is clean... Because the...

Back to school is a very emotional time of year for our family. We are all sad that summer is coming to an end, and that the new school year is starting. Which ultimately means less quality time to...

Some people get really worked up about back-to-school, and "what's on the supply list?! I must know!" Which is totally fine!   I, however, am more lax about this, which is shocking as one who loves to plan and be organized...

The one thing that we can always count on as a mother is change. Whether you are talking about a toddler who yesterday wanted their toast cut into rectangles but today only eats triangle toast. A child that fit...

It's back to school time! As summer comes to an end your child may not be too happy about trading days at the pool for sitting behind a desk.  I think the best way to deal with these feeling...

You can learn a lot about parenting from books, blogs (*wink, wink), professionals, and more. Some of parenting, though, is learning by experience or, sometimes, by sheer accident. This is one of those stories. Recently, we started playing some...

Any parent who has a child in school knows from experience that the last month of the school year is pure chaos. When you multiply that chaos by four kids, life gets crazy! After months of having something scheduled...

It has been a little over two months now that we have had our Guardian Protection Home Security System Installed  and we are so excited to say we have loved it. In no particular order, here are our Top...