Category Archives: Parenting and Family

Talking with Toy™️ Season 5, Episode 5: Diagnosis is NOT a Death Sentence!!

On today’s episode: A #CourageousConversation with my Beautiful Elle Esse Jennifer Nash @jeni1497 about her journey through and triumph over Stage 3 Breast Cancer! 💯💪🏾💞#breastcancersurvivor #talkingwithToy #toyparker #podcastersofinstagram #podcastersoftwitter #applepodcasts #spotifypodcast #growthmindset https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-with-toy/id1510239249#episodeGuid=9ed58d6d-071b-41a3-a764-41958fc04019

Workaholics Anonymous: Which Step Are You On?

Two decades of missed birthday parties, weddings, vacations, graduations, and special occasions. In times past, I have worked so hard that time and life literally escaped me. I blinked and I was planning my daughter’s 13th birthday party wondering where did all the time go. I barely remembered to teach her how to ride aContinue reading “Workaholics Anonymous: Which Step Are You On?”

How to #IGNITEyourLife with Gratitude Everyday

2014 has been a year like none other for sure. I am so far outside of my comfort zone that I don’t even know where it is anymore. For once in my life, I’m actually okay with that. I subscribe to the belief that the only way to #IGNITEyourLife no matter what is to #LiveLOVEdaily andContinue reading “How to #IGNITEyourLife with Gratitude Everyday”

Top Five Ways to Help Your Tween Unplug and Stay Connected

  Will Smith completed an amazing assignment from his Dad as a tween that impacted his life for the rest of his life as he explains in one of the interviews contained in the video above. There are so many ways to help your tween unplug from the virtual world and build a great reality withContinue reading “Top Five Ways to Help Your Tween Unplug and Stay Connected”

“Left Behind” is more than a movie: It’s an Unforgettable Journey of a Lifetime

There is truly nothing new under the sun. Even the “Left Behind” book series is back after all these years in movie theaters across the nation starting this fall in October. With so many greats known and unknown gone ahead of us this year and even years prior, it really makes me wonder sometimes wereContinue reading ““Left Behind” is more than a movie: It’s an Unforgettable Journey of a Lifetime”

When You Count it #AllJoy — Nothing Else Matters! Top 5 Ways to Maintain Your Joy Today

Life has a way of bringing all kinds of twists and unexpected turns. Some are a product of the decisions we made ourselves and many are truly beyond our control. The one thing you can depend on is that God will bring you out of whatever you got yourself into and He will sustain youContinue reading “When You Count it #AllJoy — Nothing Else Matters! Top 5 Ways to Maintain Your Joy Today”

Top Five Ways to Maintain #RelentlessResilience to Adversity and Negativity!

How was your day today? Let’s talk candidly for a just a few minutes. From the death of a loved one, to a relationship that didn’t last, a relationship that the devil destroyed before it had a chance to begin, situations in everyday life that try to pull on your spirit, to dreams that onlyContinue reading “Top Five Ways to Maintain #RelentlessResilience to Adversity and Negativity!”

Top Seven Ways to Live LOVE Daily!

LOVE. This is such a well-discussed topic. How does one approach it differently than the world? The only way to do so is to see life a different way than the world. With loving comes risks when we expect there to be an exchange or reciprocity of emotions, or actions. So then the question becomes, who’sContinue reading “Top Seven Ways to Live LOVE Daily!”

Forgiveness Heals and Helps You Live

He was so hard on me. I didn’t get to have sleepovers. I didn’t get to go off to friends’ houses. I couldn’t even ride the school bus to school like the other children. He hired someone to drive me to school when he or Mom couldn’t take me. I truly lived a very protectedContinue reading “Forgiveness Heals and Helps You Live”