In this generation, social media is in most parent’s everyday lives. Whether it is through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest more and more parents, especially mothers are bombarded with the way that they should parent, creating picture perfect ideas of parenting. These ideas are both unnatural and unrealistic for the average mom to achieve on a daily basis. With one click of a button a … Continue reading Mothers and Social Media
I am a firm believer of starting your children off early when it comes to reading. I am the type of parent where I want them to destroy books, because that means that they are going through the pages and looking at the pictures, creating their own stories. We have over 700 books in our library, another 700 on our kindles, and even more in … Continue reading Tips to Get your Child to Love to Read
As you know I love cloth diapering my children. My son potty trained at 2.5 years-old and my daughter will be about the same age when she is potty trained. At this point we have been through a couple of vacations while fully using cloth diapers. I really thought that it was going to be difficult and way too much work, but really it wasn’t … Continue reading Tips for Using Cloth Diapers on Vacation
So we now have 1 potty trained child and 1 that is very close to starting. There are some tips that I have learned over the last year to help ease the process. Start early: It is okay if you didn’t, but start now. Start by putting them on child on the potty, whenever you change their diaper. Don’t force it if they don’t want … Continue reading Tips for Potty Training
When my mother cloth diapered us, it wasn’t the most popular mainstream thing to do. Actually it was somewhat looked down upon as “hippy” or “Weird”. In 20 plus years the times have changed. Since I made the switch to cloth diapers I have met more people who cloth diaper and follow the same eco-friendly ways. In my endless nights awake, I stumbled up a … Continue reading Cloth Diaper Calculation
So what do you do when your child is sick? Do you let them rest in front of the TV all day in or do you let them play with items while they are resting? When I was growing up we always had toys to play with like crayons, coloring books, stickers, books and much more. Items that would keep us occupied without having us … Continue reading Sick Days
The Penny Whistle Any Day Is a Holiday Book is a great book that has wonderful ideas for different days to celebrate with a party. With 24 different party themes one is able to host a party for even the smallest things like getting your braces off or loosing a tooth. All you have to do is grab the materials listed and have fun!Is there a … Continue reading Book Review: The Penny Whistle Any Day is a Holiday Party Book
Buy a puzzle and put the individual pieces in each egg. Number them so you know you have all the pieces. Buy each child a puzzle and put the individual pieces in the egg. Have the children sort which pieces go to each puzzle. Fill the eggs with the Alphabet, have the children put it them in order. For younger children, fill the eggs with … Continue reading Ideas for Stuffing Easter Eggs besides Candy
As a working mother of two, I find myself with even less time to exercise than I did before I had children. Long gone are the days where I get in 1.5 hours of exercise in one day at one time. Between working full time, keeping the house up, and spending time with my children, I have little time to exercise. I touched before … Continue reading Fitting in Exercise….
I know that many people say that if you start rocking your baby to sleep he/she is going to need you to rock them always to sleep. This is true. If you start a pattern your child is going to expect that and want that as part of their routine. When my son was about 5 months old he was a little harder to put … Continue reading Why I Rock my Baby to Sleep
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