I admire people who use cloth diapers but I just don’t think I’m up to the task. I remember changing diapers while half-asleep, during long, endless nights, with my first two babies. Yawn…
I try to be environmentally-conscious. I have cloth shopping bags and usually remember to bring them with me when I shop, at least [...]

It’s so simple for new parents to slip into the whole “My-baby-is-the-most-brilliant baby-ever-and-everything-my-baby-does-is-intriguing” that sometimes we forget to censor ourselves for the non-parents in the room. I once had a conversation with two friends of mine: one was a mom and one was a man who had never had children. The other mom [...]

I got an unusual call yesterday: a call to mediate clashes in potty training ideology between my step brother and my step mother. Isn’t that interesting? I got called because, after having 5 kids, they liken me to something akin to a “expert” in the area of potty training. The object of the disagreement? A 3 year old child who staunchly refuses to use the potty. Of course, both sides have very different ideas on how to fix this whole “problem”. I myself have talked with pediatricians and even a…

I recently took a look at what ways our family could save money and I stumbled onto the idea of cloth diapering my 6 month old daughter. No, I’m not insane and no, cloth diapering certainly isn’t the same as what we all remember! Diaper pins and vinyl diaper covers are no [...]