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    Miles Favorite Podcast: Exploring the world of podcasts for Children
    Kiara Ruth
    • Apr 8
    • 3 min

    Miles Favorite Podcast: Exploring the world of podcasts for Children

    Miles recently said to me “I don’t do well with mental silence”. In that moment I struggled to understand what he meant but, in a world,...
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    Field Day - A new way to explore the Triangle for kids
    Kiara Ruth
    • Aug 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Field Day - A new way to explore the Triangle for kids

    Moving to Raleigh over 8 years ago was probably one of the biggest things I have ever done and while it was the best decision for myself...
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    Motherhood & Race - A conversation continued.....
    Kiara Ruth
    • Aug 21, 2021
    • 4 min

    Motherhood & Race - A conversation continued.....

    It was August of 2018, and we were so excited about Miles entering kindergarten. It was Miles’ first time attending school full time....
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    Miles the Gamer x Contender eSports Cary: Becoming an eSports Mom!
    Kiara Ruth
    • Jul 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    Miles the Gamer x Contender eSports Cary: Becoming an eSports Mom!

    Can you believe that I was an actual gamer as a kid? Yeap! My brother and I always had a game system and my favorite was the Nintendo 64....
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    Miles WILL Swim: How Goldish Swim School Cary implemented safety precautions amid Covid-19
    Kiara Ruth
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 5 min

    Miles WILL Swim: How Goldish Swim School Cary implemented safety precautions amid Covid-19

    My dreams of being a "sports mom" were put on hold all last year until Terrance made the statement that he wanted Miles to learn to swim,...
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    Who's at Your Dinner Table?
    Kiara Ruth
    • Dec 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    Who's at Your Dinner Table?

    I meant to share about this prior to Thanksgiving but life happens. A couple of weeks ago I sat on a panel for a local Mom's Group:...
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    Miles WILL Swim!
    Kiara Ruth
    • Oct 11, 2020
    • 3 min

    Miles WILL Swim!

    Miles recently started swimming with Goldfish Cary. The funny thing is he had done a swimming lesson there before but it was when he was...
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    Dear Virtual Academy Mama,
    Kiara Ruth
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Dear Virtual Academy Mama,

    Our lives have shifted. We went from waking up and getting our kids ready for school to creating virtual workstations in pockets of our...
    111 views2 comments
    Kiara Ruth
    • Jan 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Redemptive Discipline

    Just a few days go I checked my email, it was filled with ads, discounts and things that I needed to “catch up” on. I rigorously went...
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    Kiara Ruth
    • Nov 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    His Reality: Raising my Black Son

    It was a regular night for our family, Terrance was watching sports and I was bathing Miles. I pulled his wet body out of the tub with...
    279 views3 comments
    Motherhood, failure?
    Kiara Ruth
    • Aug 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Motherhood, failure?

    A lot of you have followed me since my move to North Carolina and most of you would agree that my son is the center of my world.
    183 views1 comment
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