Today is an awesome day! And we are so excited to be a part of the excitement! Today is Amazon Prime Day. And Pampers has partnered with Grammy Award winning recording artist, NE-YO, to bring you the most meaningful deal of the day: Sign up for a new Pampers subscription on Amazon Prime Day and Pampers will donate $10 to the March of Dimes to support families with babies in … [Read more...]
Parenting
How to Keep Your Black Kids Self-Aware in a World that Reflects the Opposite
I live and work overseas most of the time, sometimes in places where the African (and specifically the African-American diaspora) is sparse. And this can pose a challenge when trying to raise the next generation of conscious black children. For example, we are currently living in a Latin American country where the “Afro” community is extremely small and confined to disparate … [Read more...]
How to Be a Mom and an Entrepreneur without Failing at Both
When I began this entrepreneurship journey several years ago, I knew one thing and one thing only: I did not want to work for anyone ever again in my life. I had been fired twice from jobs because I put my kids’ health first. The last full-time job I had was with the federal government. I quit that job when I heard God say, “Pack your things. It’s time to go.” Before and … [Read more...]
Chuck E. Cheese’s is Turning 40 and They Are Trying to Set a World Record
You may not be aware of this, but over the last year I have been participating as a social media ambassador for Chuck E. Cheese's. I've joined a group of social media influencers (named Chuck E. Champions) and we have been tasked with spreading the word about all of the exciting changes and activities that Chuck E. Cheese's has been implementing, But today, I can’t even tell … [Read more...]
How I Went from Feeling Lonely to Being Loved on Mother’s Day
I never thought I would be a person that made a big deal out of Mother’s Day. You see, those types of holidays didn’t really excite me. Don’t get me wrong, I always took time to honor my mom on Mother’s Day. But I did not know the day was going to mean so much to me, until I became a mother myself. There’s one Mother’s Day that I will never forget. My first-born son was … [Read more...]
Pampers and Operation Shower Put Smiles on Military Moms’ Faces – And We Love It!
Many of you know that Lamar and I are brand ambassadors for Pampers and members of their Pampers Baby Board. Over the last few years, we’ve had some amazing opportunities to pay it forward in various ways from giving away a $300 AmEx gift card to a friend in need to throwing a baby shower to providing the Atlanta Diaper Relief with a one year supply of diapers and wipes Oprah … [Read more...]
Why We Have to Stop Giving Young Couples Bad Advice
"Don't marry young, it won't work." If you haven't heard this before, you probably will. For some reason, most people are not readily supportive of young marriage. Not real ones at least. Fans may show excitement over young love in Hollywood, but that's not the way it is in real life. In real life, most young engaged couples hear things like: You don't have enough life … [Read more...]
The Day I Became My Wife’s Partner Instead of Her Helper
I can remember really early in my transition to becoming a parent (I say early like it's been a long time...but my little girl is only a year and half) I truly didn't know what I was doing. It’s not that I was lazy or anything, but I think some fear of not doing things right caused me to be very passive in helping to tend to my daughter. I depended on my wife to initiate … [Read more...]
4 Ways to STOP Fighting Over the Kids and START Parenting Together
“United we stand and divided we fall”, or so the adage goes. It is true in politics and in life. And when it comes to your children and how to discipline them this saying is 100% true. We’ve all been there, you think you should discipline your child a certain way and your spouse wants to handle it differently. You each become stuck in your position, unwilling to concede, … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Awaken the Financial Genius of Your Children
Despite a clear need, mandatory financial curricula continue to be absent from most primary and secondary schools’ core educational priorities. This means that teaching our children about money, entrepreneurship, and healthy spending habits has to begin at home. “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6 1. Teach … [Read more...]
4 Ways to Protect Your Kids’ Online Privacy from Everyone but Yourself
I’ve teamed up with Consumer Reports and am proud to be one of their paid brand ambassadors; my personal opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Consumer Reports. We have four kids (9, 10, 15 and 23 years old.) And I feel like I have been fighting a losing battle with trying to protect their privacy ever since our oldest got his very first electronic device that … [Read more...]
New York Times Best-Selling Author, Denene Millner, Pens a Love Letter to Black Children Everywhere
Denene Millner is truly an artist. Everything she writes (and I mean everything) evokes emotions in me - - even her Facebook posts (I see them in my newsfeed and they give me some kind of jolt as I go about my day.) She's like "good morning"...and I'm like Denene is a genius....lol! (As you can tell...I'm a big fan and honored to be a friend too.) She has a God-given … [Read more...]
Have We No Shame? 7 of the Craziest Things Parents Do When They’re Potty Training
I’ve been reading a lot of cute stores lately about all the funny things that kids say and do while they are being potty trained. And when I think about my potty-training experiences, I can’t remember any of the funny things my kids said. But what I do remember is all the crazy and funny things that I did as a parent while potty training our four kids. Shopping for … [Read more...]
Help! My Husband and I Don’t Agree on When It Is Appropriate to Give Our Child Access to a Cell Phone
Dear Dr. Buckingham, My husband and I have different views about age appropriateness when it comes to the use of cell phones by our children.When is it appropriate to give a child access to your cell phone? What if one parent does not think the child will read his or her text messages? What if it makes his or her spouse uncomfortable? Should an 11 or 12 year old have access … [Read more...]
10 Reasons My Mother Is Such an Extraordinary Woman
It’s Woman’s History month, and although I typically don’t need a designated month to encourage me to celebrate anything, this month does make me reflect on all the phenomenal women in my life. From friends to cousins to public figures and more, I have recently been thinking a lot about the many women who have done so much to bring me to where I am today. These are women who … [Read more...]