Six Things Every Kid Needs

When I (Kristen Ivy) first became a mom, I was working with Reggie Joiner – Founder and CEO of Orange. He told me something that forever changed the way I view parenting. 

 

Reggie gave me a jar with 936 marbles. Each marble represented the estimated weeks between birth and high school graduation. He challenged me to remove a marble each week to help me see the amount of time I had left with my baby. 

 

I know that sounds a tad depressing on one hand, but the point of the jar is this:

 

When you...