Get a Free Child Safety ID Kit…from Gerber

Posted on April 21st, 2008

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The Child Safety ID Kit helps you keep your child’s most important information, photos, and fingerprints in one safe place in [...]

Balanced & Healthy Eating for Toddlers

Posted on April 16th, 2008

A recent report entitled “Healthy Food Campaigning Could Be Putting Toddlers’ Health At Risk”from the U.K. indicated that the recent awareness and concern about childhood obesity has led to some toddlers to be categorized as undernourished. The focus on fruits and vegetables and high-fiber in lieu of carbohydrates (including sugars) and foods with a high [...]

My Mantra: “D-I-T-M”

Posted on April 16th, 2008

DITM is an acronym you might overhear me muttering any time I’m trying to buckle my squirming toddler into a shopping cart or when my daughter insists on candy when it’s time to sit down for dinner. Any time one of my kids puts up a struggle over something that I shouldn’t give in [...]

Games to Play with a One-Year Old

Posted on April 10th, 2008

Our daughter turned one recently, which has opened a new world of games to play with her. No longer is she a baby, but a toddler and is capable of so much more than she was just a few months ago. She’s playing “peekaboo” all the time, and enjoys waving “hello” and “bye bye” as [...]

A Child-proofing Secret

Posted on April 9th, 2008

Child proofing is a continuous process, as my husband and I have learned as our son, now just over two explores more and can problem-solve to reach things that he used to just stare at and wonder about. There’s nothing quite like watching your toddler go to the bathroom to get the step-stool used for [...]

Rude Awakening

Posted on April 9th, 2008

Lately, every morning I wake up to someone screaming at me. No, I don’t have a sadistic husband, but rather my toddler son has taken to screaming urgently as though his life was on the line every morning. He goes from snoozing peacefully to shouting “MOMMY! MOOOOOMMMMMMMMYY!” in the blink of an eye. [...]

Mothers vs. Grandmothers

Posted on April 8th, 2008

I was chatting with a grandmother who had five children. I asked her how she managed with five, and she said that it was easy raising them. “What’s your secret?” I asked. “Oh, I sent them all outside to play during the day, then they came home for their dinner.”
And if you talk to [...]

Giving Up Naps

Posted on April 8th, 2008

My daughter gave up taking naps right around the time she was poised to turn two years old. This may not have been such a big deal, but it was right around the time her baby brother was born and I really could have used an hour or two to myself during the day…or [...]

Helping a Toddler Gain Weight

Posted on April 7th, 2008

Our daughter is underweight. She’s not horrendously underweight, but our pediatrician had some concerns; hence, we have some concerns as well.

If you have ever tried to get an extremely active one year old child to actually sit down long enough to finish a meal, let alone gain any weight, you understand how hard it [...]

Caution: Memories Forming

Posted on April 7th, 2008

When my daughter was in her terrible twos and my son was a newborn I often stumbled around like a zombie, not showering for days on end and crying in anguish if dinner was burned. It wasn’t a pretty sight, but I took solace in knowing that it was probably something my kids wouldn’t [...]