Top 5 Apps To Keep Your Kids Safe

Raising children is probably the toughest job in the world, with new challenges arising every now and then. One of the biggest worries for parents is that they can lose their children when they are unsupervised. To have this situation averted, and to keep an eye on the under-aged children all the time, parents are advised to take the advantage of the latest technology. With their smartphones parents are able to know the whereabouts of their children, when they are not with them. Not only such apps keep the parents updated, but also help them to have a better idea about their children’s lives and likes.

mSpy
This app is one of the leading apps that help parents all over to keep an eye on their kids. Designed for child monitoring, mSpy lets the parents to track the phones of their children through GPS and records, including phone calls, messages, media files and web browsing history. Many parents have found this absolutely effective to protect their children from communication with objectionable people and from going to places inappropriate for them. mSpy will keep the parents notified regularly and keep all the records for them to check anytime.

SygicFamily
This is another great app developed to keep families protected. Besides providing with location tracking options, what this app does uniquely is showing the battery levels of the phone it is installed on. So, if their phone is switched off, parents can be assured when it truly is because of battery down. Thus parents can easily know if children are hiding anything or if they are in any troubles.

Google Latitude
Where all the other apps mentioned in this list provide with a package of all the child monitoring facilities, Google Latitude specializes in tracking locations. This is particularly handy when parents want to track the location of their children but do not know how to get in there. Since this app shows the location in a detailed map, it becomes a trouble-free thing for the parents to get to their children.

MobileKids
This app can be a too far-fetched one; but who knows, such an overly protective app can come to some help in special cases. For the parents who seek a highly involving way to supervise and watch over their kid, this app could be just the thing. This app literally alerts the parents of every move of their children done through their phones: like when they install any new app, use their phone during the late hours at night, are in contact with strangers - everything will be messaged to the parents instantly. Since this is one extremely “nosy” app, parents should think before installing if their kid really requires such monitoring.

mamaBear
Well, the name of the app is pretty self-explanatory. Just like a mama bear, it lets mamas and dads be notified of the activities the kids may be having. The app is basically famous for its option to let the mama bears out there to have a full record of what the kids are doing online. From their social media feeds to personal messages, parents will be able to know what the kids are going through.
Post by Linda Waters. Marketing executive at mspy.com. Blogger who writes on mobile-driven tech innovations (especially, mobile tracking apps) and their advantages for parents.


Post by Linda Waters. Marketing executive at mspy.com. Blogger who writes on mobile-driven tech innovations (especially, mobile tracking apps) and their advantages for parents.

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The Weekend Blog Post Showcase!

How many times have you participated in a blog hop and had someone come over to your heartfelt blog post and simply say "Hi, I'm following you from such and such blog, please follow back" ?

Well lets try to get a little deeper.

You spent a lot of time writing that post and you want more than a Hey I'm following you, follow me back comment don't you?

This blog hop is for sharing your heartfelt blog posts that you'd like more recognition for. This is not to gain followers, its simply to enjoy what we all like most, good blogging, good reads and sharing. Think of this as a show and tell hop. Grab your cup of coffee and be prepared for some good reads! :)


What are the rules?
1. Link up your "BLOG POST", something you've written from the week, not a giveaway or an advertisement or a link to the current coupons out there. They will be deleted. (Not against them, but this linky is not what its for.)
2. Visit a blog post on the linky that you plan to spend time on and actually read their post to give a heartfelt comment back.
3. Put the Hop Button in your post or sidebar if you plan to participate.

That is it!

This hop will start on Thursdays/Fridays and last all weekend long. Yes you can link up more than one post from the week, or any time really, just be reasonable, don't be a linky hog.



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Parenting: When Its Best To Step Aside

Tonight is supposed to be review night and I had it all lined up to write a lovely review for this awesome HP Officejet Pro 8600 printer, but I realized I didn't have all the stuff together I needed for a proper review, like photo paper so I can show how well it prints photos. I'm really excited to share this printer with you, but that will wait until Tuesday. Tuesdays and Thursday evenings are my office nights away from the kids. So since I couldn't get that going, I will just ramble here, actually I'll talk about what we discovered with J during soccer.

Hunky Hubs and I discovered since Sunday, (J's last soccer game) that we would stop yelling instructions at him from the sidelines. When your child is in an organized sport, or in a contest for something, you want to cheer and coach right along with the coaches, and I think we realized that J does better when we are quiet and let the coaches do their job. J Myster, being the youngest on the team is often found counting weeds, looking at kids on different fields playing soccer, standing there with his shirt over his head, or running in a circle while his teammates are running after the ball. Both Hunky Hubs and I would look at each other thinking, why won't he at least chase after the thing like he does at home.

We got him his own soccer net and he kicks his ball into that net at home and does great! But with his teammates, that's a different story.

We yell at him from the sidelines, "J get the ball", "J kick the ball", J run!!"  He's the last one after the ball and often just chases his teammates. With that being said, there are two other boys on the team that tend to be powerhouses and kick the ball so far that its in other team's fields, and they also fight with each other and get pretty distracted themselves. So distraction is kind of normal when you are coaching a bunch of four and five year olds, but I have to say on the team, all the girls are perfect little players. They listen to their coach. Go figure! The boys however are off in la la land!

Anyway I've decided that during practices and games, I will keep my mouth shut. I am not going to yell at him from the sidelines anymore. I am going to sit there and let him be coached, and if he goes off into la la land, I am going to let the coach deal with it. Well tonight, it worked! I should have known he'd listen so much better to his coaches than he would to mom and dad. He kicked the ball twice tonight and ran after it! He also listened to his assistant coach during drills and followed as best as he could. So now Hunky Hubs and I will be sure to cheer and step in when appropriate, but really just sit back and let the kid be coached. I don't know if its just that I've always micromanaged him, but I've definitely realized how much more he pays attention when I step aside.

As a parent when do you find it the hardest to step aside and let your children make mistakes or learn something without your involvement?

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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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The MOHTH OnGoing Giveaway Linky

Hi Bloggy Friends,

Here you can find and list your own giveaways on the On Going MOHTH Giveaway linky list. I will clean up the list each week of old giveaways, so please be sure to put an end date on your giveaways so they are not purged early. Every Thursday a few of the giveaways will be facebooked and tweeted to help spread the word.

Respectful Suggestions: 
You do not have to enter any giveaways on this list, but to help people on this list, tweet the person's giveaway right above yours on the linky. Or use the tweet this button below, don't want to tweet it, add a button to your side bar or giveaway post page.

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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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Flattenme Personalized Children's Book

J Myster recently got a book that was completely personalized to him. He was so excited about it and it came with a little stuffed animal too and he has grown attached to the stuffed animal and sleeps with it at night. But I thought that maybe Baby B should have his own personalized book, and since he stays up later than J myster does, I thought it might be good to start laying down the same reading routine with B, that I did with J. But my boys are completely different from each other. J myster loves books! He can get lost in them, and make up his own story to the pictures he sees. B on the other hand, thinks books are great for throwing, knocking off shelves, or chewing on. He's 17 months old, so while B is still learning about the value of books, J's love for books started when he was 6 months old. He loved when mama read to him, and maybe B doesn't have that love yet because I haven't spent enough time reading to him as I did with J myster. This is why I want to establish this night time reading routine, and hopefully it will help him love books like his brother does.

Flattenme.com specializes in personalized books, cards, wall art and t-shirts and Baby B got this lovely book called Owl Always Love You.

This book is personalized just for him and this book will stay up on a high shelf until he is old enough to appreciate the book and prove he can show books love. In the mean time I can enjoy reading this beautiful book to him at bedtime.

Personalized With His Name!

Just like J myster's special personalized book, this book reads the same with the most beautiful pictures throughout. You can also write a dedication on the inside. For B, we wrote, "Sleep Tight Braiden, Mommy and Daddy Love You!" This would be great as a gift, especially from an Aunt or Uncle or from Grandparents!

The book poetically and softly tells the story of a loving parent telling their little one all the ways they are loved, while at the same time telling that little one that its ok to go to sleep. This is a great way to get little ones to settle down before bed and to love story time. 

The pictures are absolutely beautiful!

Here's a little more about Flattenme.com and how to personalize your books:

Books have always held a special place in my heart and I feel that books like these get kids excited to read! I'm so glad to now have two personalized books for my kids. Its something they can keep forever. I'm happy to be able to teach a love of reading to my little ones. Its so important these days with all the technological gadgets out there, to stop what you are doing and read a book to your kids.

So I've teamed up with Flattenme to give one lucky reader the chance to personalize their own book for a special child in their life. This giveaway is open to those 18 years and older in the U.S. Good Luck!!

Also just for being a reader, you can get a 10 percent discount on a book using the code: "Owl10" thru May 31st.


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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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The Beautiful Lila Rose Flexi Clip

Its not often that I get to do nice things with my hair, but when I do, I get excited! I tend to throw on some capri shorts a tank top and put my hair in a pony tail and I'm out the door with my boys, so when I got the opportunity to dress up and wear a nice barrette in my hair for a Mother's Day brunch celebration with my gal pals from the mom group, it was wonderful! Most of my barrettes have no real design to them and they are the cheap ones you get at Walgreens or Walmart, nothing fancy like this...or unique.


At brunch, while at Josephines, a popular fine dining restaurant a few Sundays ago, I had so many nice compliments about it and can't wait to wear it again!

I sported this beautiful Lila Rose Dragonfly flexi clip. 

I love how unique it is and that Lila Rose has so many to choose from! Just check it out!  Here are a couple more that I think are beautiful!

Purple Stone Cluster Flexi Clip

Sea Turtle Flexi Clip

Lila Rose makes these flexi clips in three different sizes, small medium and large and the one I am sporting in the picture at the top is a large flexi clip. If you aren't sure what size to get, Lila Rose has a sizing chart to help with that here. And if you rarely wear your hair up, no worries, they have instructional videos for 8 different beautiful hairstyles. Having long hair, I love seeing how to wear my hair differently, instead of just throwing it in a ponytail, although if you did, one of these beautiful flexi clips would make a simple ponytail look amazing.

This is one of my favorite hairstyles shown and I can't wait to try it myself. Its called the "Up and Down" and seems like an easy way to keep my hair out of the way. Sometimes with little ones you want your hair out of the way because its constantly being pulled, but having it out of the way, and beautiful, is a definite a plus!

So if you are interested in wining yourself one of these flexi clips, or any of the other Lila Rose hair products, please like my facebook fan page because I will be hosting a fan page Lila Rose party on Tuesday May 21st.   You may RSVP to the event here.

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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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The Hump Day Blog & Social Media Link Up

Happy Hump Day!!

...and rest assured, because its all down hill from here. In a good way!

Welcome Back to a Mid Week Link up where you can link up everything you got, including your giveaways. Make sure they go on the right linkies below.

 EVERYONE WHO LINKS UP WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO CO-HOST!

How does it work? 

Well over the past view months I have randomly emailed people who have linked up on the linky to co-host, but sometimes I get no response. So we are doing something new because I know there are people who link up who want to co-host. So I have created a sign up form.

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*Please go to the link above to sign up. Make sure it is an email address that you check often. *

Your Hosts this week: 

1. Follow your host  Mommy Only Has Two Hands  and Co-Host This Week: Jen Loves Life

2. Tweet This Hop: Tweet

3. It would be nice if you displayed the button in your post or blog sidebar to help spread the word.

And Most of All, have a Happy Hump Day!


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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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My Life Via Instagram Link Up

Do you love snapping photos! Then this meme is for you! Much like Wordless Wednesday, but you can explain your photos if you so like. Happy Instagraming, here are a few of mine!

Walnut Canyon Lakes...

Loving the ducks...

Right before it rained. 

A nice walk...

Brotherhood...

If you instragram, make a post of your instagrams from webstagram and share them with us!

Follow me on Instagram, tell me you are following me on Instagram and I will follow back.

Every Tues-Thurs

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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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Mother's Day Blessings

We had a super busy weekend once again. Most weekends these days are super busy, but I am hoping and praying come June, we'll just be able to have weekends hanging at home, not working on anything, or going anywhere.


It is nice to be busy though sometimes. This weekend we went to a friend's birthday party for her one year old. It was cute watching the kids hit a pinata. There's something about a one year old diving into a cake covered in chocolate frosting that makes you smile. We also did other odds and ends around the house and a little gardening, but we aren't going to really do anything in front of the house until after the house is painted.

This weekend, Hunky Hubs went off with JJ to find me a Mother's day gift. I don't wear expensive jewelry. The most expensive jewelry I own, is probably my high school class ring and then my wedding ring, which I never take off, but I was excited to see a lovely piece of jewelry that expresses me so thoroughly.

I'm a mom...and forever will be.

This necklace represents mother and child and it was from my husband and I found out that J Myster picked it out, and I think it is perfect.

I am loved by my beautiful children and amazing husband!

Hope you had a fantastic Mother's Day!

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Author: Heather Wife, Mother of Two Boys, Coffee Addict, Pinterest obsessed, an aspiring writer balancing every day life of raising a family and blogging about it. If you like what you just read, consider casting a one click vote ;)

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