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God has placed a high-calling on moms’ lives as we raise children who will impact the world, take care of our homes, love our husbands, and ultimately honor God with our lives.
Together, we can use this summer to gather our families, grow close to one another as we grow closer to God, and give the best of who we are to our families.
Find fun and easy activities and ideas to keep kids busy this summer, whether they are exploring the outdoors or beating the heat inside.
Connect with your kids and your family by intentionally making lifelong memories.
Refresh your own heart as you help your family recharge.
Create new and exciting learning opportunities for your kids as they participate in summer camp at home, engaging in outdoor activities, and completing special projects.
Disciple the hearts of your children as you soak up the sunny days of summer.
Fun and Easy Ways to Keep Kids Busy This Summer
It can be hard to fight the near-constant chorus of “I’m bored!” and “There’s nothing to do!” But as moms, it can be hard to strike the balance of creating magical summer memories with our kids while also staying sane, staying on-budget, and keeping our homes and families running smoothly.
Check out these easy resources to help your kids bust boredom without breaking the bank!
6 Summer Projects for Your Tweens and Teens: In this post, you will learn how to make life-time memories, while also seizing the moment to train your teens and tweens up with the skills you would like to see them take into their future. Connect with your teens and tweens while expanding their skill sets!
13 Summer Boredom Buster Ideas for Kids: Write fun summer activities for your kids on slips of paper and have them pull ideas out of the jar when you hear the inevitable sigh of “I’m bored!” Busy hands and busy minds keep children out of trouble and this jar might just save your sanity this summer.
50 Summer Bucket List Ideas for Kids: In this post, you will find 50 ideas to have the best summer ever with your kids. Cut out the options and put them in a bucket and pull out one each day. Or pick your top ten favorite things to do before summer ends. Be diligent to use these ideas to connect with God in nature and connect with friends and family. As you do you're creating wonderful summer memories!
5 Screen-Free Summer Activities: If you are struggling to peel the iPad out of little hands or encourage your kids to play outside instead of on the Playstation, this post will give you fun and easy ways to encourage a screen-free summer!
5 Practical Ways to Serve with Your Kids This Summer: While summer is a wonderful time to slow down and soak up family time, it’s also a great opportunity to look around and see how we might bless and serve others. Here are five practical ways to bring our children alongside us as we seek to love and serve this summer.
100+ Ideas for Free and Frugal Summer Fun: I'm sure you have wonderful plans to make extraordinary family memories in the coming months. The Better Mom wants to make these upcoming months a breeze for you and your family. In this post, you will find a go-to list of free and frugal Summer fun ideas.
10 Best Fun and Kid-Friendly Summer Indoor Activities: Although outdoor activities are wonderful, it’s nice to have a list of items to pull out on rainy, gloomy, or just-too-hot days. Here’s a list of 10 kid-friendly activities to do indoors:
15 Creative Summer Activities to Connect With Your Teens & Tweens: Strengthen family ties with 15 creative, easy, and affordable activities this summer even your teens and tweens will enjoy!
10 Fun and Frugal Outdoor Summer Activities for Kids: We wanted to help you discover some fun and affordable ways to get outside and enjoy your kids and God’s world this summer. Here are our top 10 fun and frugal outdoor summer activities for kids.
5 Awesome Summer Activities & Outdoor Adventures with Toddlers: Check out these five awesome summer activities and outdoor adventures that will keep your toddler delighted—and big kids too!
Making The Most of Summer with Your Kids
Don’t let this season slip by without taking the time to intentionally create lasting memories with your kids this summer.
From creating your own version of summer camp at home, to finding fun summer projects to work on with your teens or creating new outdoor adventures with your toddlers, check out this list of easy, doable ideas to make lasting memories and make the most of this season.
How to Have a Family Day This Summer: Memories and traditions are the glue that holds a childhood together. In this post, you will learn how to interject purposeful, meaningful, and out-of-the-norm memories into my children's lives. Not just because "everyone else is doing it," but to bless our children with traditions they will hold near and remember.
Ten Ways for Your Family to Get the Most out of Summer: Summer is a fun time to enjoy lazy evenings, take vacations, and create memories that can last a lifetime. You don't have to have a lot of money or have a Pinterest worthy summer to have good times together and this post will give you practical ways to do that!
Setting Your Family up for Summer Success: I’ve learned in my years of parenting that in order for things to run smoothly, I need to have a plan—even if it’s just a loose guide—to keep us from spiraling into the grumpy-infused chaos of simply winging it all summer. This post will show you simple ways to do just that!
How to Make Meaningful Memories This Summer: Some of the best memories that we’ve made together were just simple moments. It’s so easy to let simple moments pass us by and not cherish the time and memories we can make in those moments. This post will show you how to pause in the moment and help make meaningful moments last.
6 Tips for a Simple and Stress Free Summer with Your Kids: Perhaps you are not as fun as you thought yourself to be, and you're summer is feeling more stressful than enjoyable. Here are 6 simple things to keep in mind that make a difference at our house...perhaps they will de-stress your summer too!
Making the Most of the Rest of Summer: There is still time to engage your kids this summer. Let's live on purpose and model for our kids what a purposeful mom does during the summer.
How to Schedule Your Summer with Kids: Are you stuck on how to strike the balance of a fun, care-free summer with accomplishing everything on your ever-growing to-do list? Then this post is for you!
Make Great Memories With Your Family This Summer: Times have changed but one constant that remains – kids still love making memories with their family in the summer! Right now, your family is writing the story of memories that will stay with your kids for the rest of their lives. If you haven’t been able to enjoy time with your family yet, it’s not too late to make some great memories!
Become a Better Mom by Becoming More Like Jesus
It’s easy to think your mom friend on Instagram has it all together with her coordinating family outfits, frizz-free hair and children that never forget a “please” or “thank you,” but I can assure you she doesn’t. None of us do! This is why it’s so important to remember that the best way for us to give to our families is to first grow in our faith.
After all, we can’t pour life-giving words and wisdom into our children if our own cup is empty. Check out these resources to help you grow in your faith, shift your mindset, and position your heart to be able to live out your faith with your kids this summer.
Cultivating a “Yes!” Mom Mentality This Summer: Saying YES may take up more time, make more mess or cost us personally somehow. And honestly, this is motherhood. In this post, you will learn easy and doable ways to say “Yes!” to your kids more!
10 Mom-Goals to Reach This Summer: As a mom, I know the summer is my "golden time" for getting stuff done, and I admit, I still make some lengthy lists around June of all the things I'd like to accomplish in these short months. In this post, you will find 10 goals to help you and your family feel refreshed come fall.
3 Ways Every Mom Can Relax and Recharge This Summer: In this post, you will find three practical ways to relax and recharge this summer before the hustle and bustle of back-to-school season creeps up.
For the Mom Who’s Dreading Summer Break: Summer has its challenges, but counting down the days until September is no way to live! We are blessed to have our little ones with us, under our roof, for such a brief time and with a few simple tweaks and changes from the norm, can make a huge difference in everyone's happiness.
3 Summer Goals for Parents: While our children laugh and wander and live out their summer in bare feet and bicycle helmets, I am reminded that it’s not just their summer. It’s mine, too. This year, I’m adding three things to my routine I hope will strengthen my heart, mind, and marriage.
Make Learning Fun This Summer
3 Fun & Free Ways to Help Your Kids Learn at Home This Summer (PLUS a list of over 200 resources!): In this post, you will learn how to keep your kids both entertained and educated with FUN SCHOOL. All of these summer activities for kids are as fun for the parents as they are the kids … and they are all FREE! This post also includes a bonus list of over 200 resources for parents!
10 Summertime Habits to Grow a Good Student: In this post, you will find tend habits from a high school teacher from encouraging a child to advocate for themselves to learning to celebrate a child’s work ethic over their achievement! This list can keep your kids on track to becoming a better student come fall.
3 Fun and Easy Ways to Rock Your Summer While Learning (from a homeschool mom!): In this post, you will learn 3 easy ways you can rock your summer and weave learning into your family's time together. Not only will you grow closer together, you will also come out enjoying new knowledge, too! It's a win-win!
The Ultimate List of Summer Learning Resources: The learning doesn't have to stop for the summer fun to begin. In this post, you will find resources for fun and free ways to encourage reading, math skills, science exploration and so much more!
9 Tips to Summer Reading Success: Are you wondering how can you help keep your kids engaged with reading during the lazy days of summer? In this post, you will find a few ideas to help encourage your kids to keep reading!
How to Stay Connected with Your Kids This Summer
4 Easy Ways to Slow Down and Soak up Summer With Kids: Summer is an opportunity to breathe; to rest from all the hustle. Maybe you are in that place--where you just need some space to breathe without planning out every moment of your summer days. If that’s the case, this post is for you.
10 Great Questions to Ask Kids While Outdoors this Summer: We can show our love and interest in our kids, just like God does, by taking the time to learn about the things that make them tick. This summer, join me in making quality family time that much better by asking them these ten great questions while spending time outdoors this summer.
Making the Most of Summer by Discipling Your Children: This summer, you have the opportunity to reconnect with your child, to focus on developing a better relationship, spending quality time together, and really getting to know each other better and this post will show you just how to do that.
12 Easy Ways to Connect with Your Kids this Summer: Summer is a great time to have great conversations, read books together, and to take time to be intentional with your kids. This post shares 12 fun ways you can reconnect and recharge during summer with kids!
Summer Scripture Challenge for Families: Summer is a great time to rally the family around the Bible together. Here’s one way to get your kids—and yourself—excited about studying the Bible, called the Summer Scripture Challenge. Learn how it works in this post!
