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How to Talk to Your Kids About a Big Change

By Lizann Lightfoot Jun 20, 2023Moving

You’ve just learned that your military family is moving. Or you have a deployment in your future. There are so many questions buzzing in your mind. If you’re a parent, one of …

Lizann’s son standing in front of the moving boxes packed away in the moving truck

Military Resources, Perks and Benefits

By Kelly Bojan May 9, 2023Military Life

If I had to use one word to describe military life it would be rich. By rich, I mean that we experience a full spectrum of unique experiences while being part of …

A person walking through a park with a child on their shoulders

Making the Most of a R&R Visit During Deployment

By Lizann Lightfoot Apr 25, 2023Deployment

For deployments lasting a year or longer, service members are often granted a week or two of leave near the middle of deployment. This R&R visit is a great opportunity to come …

Lizann and her kids holding welcome signs in the airport

Your Military Teenager

By Kelly Bojan Apr 11, 2023Parenting

I counsel a lot of adolescents and teenagers and I cannot tell you how often I hear from parents that they have no idea who their teenager has become. One day they …

Three teens walking with their backpacks on

Modeling Being Present

By Kristi Stolzenberg Apr 4, 2023Parenting

You know those point-A-to-point-B drives where you arrive at your destination and realize you were completely zoned out the entire time? We are so plugged in all day, every day, that there …

Kristi and her family walking on the beach

Seasons of Motherhood

By Sydney Smith Mar 14, 2023Parenting

Only recently can I finally say I am getting back into a place where I’m enjoying motherhood. The last year and a half since our second child was born has been a …

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