Welcome, Wordless Wednesday peeps!! (If you are not familiar with Wordless Wednesday, it is a really fun activity done on 5 Minutes for Mom every Wednesday. Participants post a fun picture from their site to the 5 Minutes for Mom site and then you can “hop” around to see the different pictures and discover cool, [...]
Archive | November, 2011
Potty Training Series–Part 1: How Do You Know When to Start Potty Training?
Today we are starting our Potty Training Series. Next week we will post Part 2: Potty Training Methods and Tips and the following week we will post Part 3: Following-up with Potty Training. We hope that you enjoy! Ugh. Potty training. Well, maybe you are excited by the idea of potty training, but I was not [...]
Christmas Kinection: Enter to Win a Xbox 360 plus Games (Value $399) – Now thru Dec. 6
We are really excited to be part of an awesome contest along with other bloggers we love. From now until December 6, 2011, enter for your chance to win an Xbox 360 plus games! All of the details are listed below and you can enter directly from this post. Good luck!!!! Welcome to Christmas Kinection [...]
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Tablets for Young Children? Which One: iPad, LeapPad, or K-Fire? (Plus Lists of Apps for Kids)
One of the hottest gifts for 2011 for the under five crowd is a tablet. It is somewhat surprising, considering how expensive tablets can be, but the people have spoken – tablets for preschoolers is the new phenomenon. This phenomenon is, of course, met with some controversy. One end of the spectrum believes that the [...]
Lice & Young Children: How to Check and Prevent
I was talking to a friend once and she telling me about the spray she uses in her 2-year-old daughter’s hair every morning to prevent lice. What?! Lice!! I could not believe my ears. I thought lice was something I didn’t need to worry about until grade school. I was wrong. My kids have hair [...]
Winter Coats Can Reduce Car Seat Safety
Sometimes I come across something that I am surprised to learn. This week I saw a small article come across my news feed warning parents about “coat compression” and how dressing your child in winter coats could significantly reduce the safety of the car seat. WHAT??!!! What does it mean? How come I am just [...]
Motherhood So Far…What I Learned about the Good, the Bad, and the Chaotic
Yesterday my first baby turned three. After the party was over, and I finished cleaning the loads of tissue paper and spewed present wrapping off the living room floor, I had a minute to reflect on the past three years. Motherhood, so far, is not AT ALL what I expected. To be honest, I am [...]
Simple Meal Idea: Baked Crispy Chicken with Butternut Squash & Stuffing
I promised to keep you posted on simple and delicious meal ideas that the ENTIRE family can enjoy! This week I found a new one that will definitely be making a repeat performance: Baked Crispy Chicken with Butternut Squash & Stuffing. Last week I was watching Parenthood on OnDemand. I love that I can find [...]
Is Your Child Refusing to Nap? Ways to Make “Quiet Time” Happen
Naps. Little bites of heaven. The time of the day I love the most. The break we all need in the middle of the day so that we can ALL recharge. Nap, Friend, please don’t ever leave me. While there are some angel children who nap easily and soundly from Day One through to their Fifth [...]
Boycott on J&J Baby Wash? So What is Safe?
Several years ago, there was a study published from Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC), a consumer safety group, stating that Johnson & Johnson used some chemicals in it’s baby wash that were cancer-causing and considered dangerous. This information was not something shared widely in pediatrician offices and not really talked about too much in parenting circles, but it [...]
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