Celebrate National Crayon Day With These Fun DIY Crayon Craft Projects

Bella Breakdown Today is a day worth celebrating one of the most beloved pieces of childhood craft projects, colored crayons. In celebration of National Crayon Day, here are a couple of craft projects using crayons for fun colorful creations. If you have a bunch of broken or worn down crayons, you can melt down the pieces and create a new crayon. The best part is that you can choose what shape and color crayons you want to create, a fun option is to get a lego brick mold so you can use them for drawing and building. There are...

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Protecting Your Children Online Early

Many apps feature certain monitoring or blocking features to prevent kids from finding inappropriate and explicit content, but certain apps allow kids to get around parental filters and blocking features. One of the most common apps used is for monitoring or blocking explicit content but web browsers within certain social media apps can easily navigate around the explicit content. The popular social media app, Snapchat, is one of the apps that has its own private web browser within the app that can bypass filtering and blocking parental control apps. Snapchat is rated 12+ in the AppStore but this is...

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Monitoring Your Kids On Social Media

  Social media can seem harmless and that it’s regulated for an audience of all ages, but you would be shocked to discover the truth. Certain social media platforms can be used by kids to get around child lock and monitoring programs that are difficult to detect. Most monitoring programs cover most apps including Safari and Chrome internet browsers but social media apps have individual browsers that allow kids to view mature content that would normally be blocked. Though Snapchat is rated for ages 12 and above, that doesn’t mean people won’t exploit their private browser and the app...

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Being A Parent To A Transitioning Child

Bella Breakdown Your child has always been a bit different. Not in a bad way, but maybe not in the sense of traditional gender identity and gender roles. This is something that is happening more and more these days. And you are not alone in not necessarily knowing how to handle it or what to do next. Maybe your child was born a girl but doesn’t consider herself a girl but rather a boy. He wants to wear boy clothes and always tries to correct you when you call her a girl. This isn’t abnormal. Children as young as...

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Happy And Healthy Parenting Tips

Bella Breakdown Holidays may mean that parents getting ready for the holidays and this also means shopping and figuring out the holiday break. One of the things Forbes Magazine recommends for the holidays is that parents could treat themselves too. While you are getting your kids new winter clothes and presents, buy yourself a little something too. After all, you deserve it, and there is no better excuse than when you are already out shopping anyway. Another thing you can do is to take a little bit of your time. It doesn’t have to be somewhere exotic or far...

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