BERGEN COUNTY MOMS

Choosing self-compassion can change your life. It can be the difference between surviving and thriving, and between isolation and...

Happiness. One word that has come to mean so much during a year of living through a pandemic. And, now, never more appreciated when it...

Breathing is an important coping strategy for kids to learn and yet it can be so difficult to get them to want to practice. Firstly, the...

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I...

Ridgewood YMCA Summer Camps Camps Available for Ages 3-16yrs June 28th - August 20th, 2021 Visit Website Let’s Bring Back Summer in 2021!...

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. In a family with two parents (together or not), it’s common for each of you to have different...

“In My Heart” by Jo Witek speaks to all the feelings we have and helps normalize the ones we may sometimes wish we didn’t. This book is...

Do you equate loving your children with being nice and agreeable? Does being nice keep the peace, but leave you feeling frustrated and...

Now that we’ve mostly come out of hibernation, it’s time to air out and clean out. Done any spring cleaning yet? You can clean out and...

Eighty-one members of Immaculate Heart Academy’s Class of 2022 celebrated their Junior Ring Ceremony on the afternoon of March 12, 2021....

A lot of times women feel alone in their struggles, so it's helpful to hear that others are going through similar things. Women have the...

I recently heard an educator label a former student as “low,” as in “low functioning.” We hear the terms low and high functioning quite...

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. It’s a phrase worth considering at every brick wall we encounter, and...

Have you ever said something and immediately wished you could take the words back? Did you do something that backfired? Even if you...

“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.” -- Maria Montessori My husband and I are blessed...

The disruption of in-person schooling, diminished access to school meal programs and worsening food insecurity have had a considerable...

If there is one thing that parents know when they enroll their children at Saddle River Day School, it’s that they’ve put their kids in...

"If I only knew then what I know now." I can't tell you how many times I've heard that from parents (and how many times I said it...

We've heard all the stories: Thomas Edison designed the light bulb 1000 times until it finally worked. He learned 999 ways NOT to make a...

You know when you are out to dinner and you get that well deserved glass of wine. You hold it in your hands like it is the greatest gift,...