Here are our favorite books to prepare a toddler for their first airplane flight. Reading about it ahead of time will help your little one learn what to expect, making what can be an overwhelming and possibly even scary experience…
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Avery got a double ear infection almost two weeks ago. It was miserable. We got antibiotics. Apparently they didn’t work. Yesterday he spiked a fever again and it was deja vu. Gone were the day’s plans of running errands…
We are going almost three years strong as a screen-free family…and it works for us. I get that for some families this just doesn’t work, and I certainly don’t judge those that need some assistance from an educational and…
Potty Books…you know the type of exhilarating reading that childhood dreams (and nightmares) are built upon. There are a LOT of potty books, and some are disturbing at best. Here are some of our favorites: Elmo’s Potty Time Play-a-Song…
I’m living in a urine soaked nightmare. I woke up last night at 12:30 to a pool of warm urine. My feet, pregnancy pillow, sheets and comforter were all soaked through. No, I haven’t gone incontinent with my second…
Never wake a sleeping toddler…EVER. I don’t have many parenting “rules” per se, but never waking a sleeping baby is one that I live by. A doesn’t sleep. Like ever. He goes to bed after a two-hour battle around…
I slept in my son’s crib last night. Yep. That’s right, in the crib. It was 2 am when I was awoken by toddler screaming. In case you’ve never experienced this, it’s a sound worse than that iPhone alarm…
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Why I’m going to keep telling my son how AMAZING he is (even if that means he may become a narcissist)
This article has been circulating the interwebs lately https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/03/09/parents-stop-overvaluing-your-kid-you-may-create-a-future-narcissist-study-says/. It’s about a research study that aims to link narcissism to parental praise. I get it – no one wants their kid to be an as*hole. And a lot of…
Today I almost had a heart attack. Like for real. Ok, not an actual heart attack, but my son did scare the sugar out of me. It was one of those days when you think, “hey, I’ve got…