Ask any new parent what they need and the answer will probably be “more sleep!” When I was a new mother I was so tired that I once tried to nurse a stuffed animal. No one was more surprised than me that I couldn’t get a good latch, except maybe Elmo. I read “The Happiest Baby Guide to Great Sleep” by Harvey Karp, M.D. and wish I’d had this book for my babies. Not that my babies could … [Read more...]
Trash to Treasure? Garbage Art with Glad
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I have some parenting rules that work well for me. One is “Mama never gets mad over an accident.” Things happen, stuff gets broken. I try to keep my cool, as long as it wasn’t done out of laziness or during the commission of a crime. (Do not touch my secret chocolate stash I keep in an antique beer stein!) Still, I’ve had to throw away a lot of nice things over the last twenty … [Read more...]
Country Crock Gets Kids to Eat Their Veggies. #veggieworld #spon
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This post is sponsored by Country Crock. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own. I've always been lucky at getting my kids to eat vegetables. Not that they were all naturally “good eaters”, but because I am adept at making food fun. The old “here comes the choo-choo train” worked when … [Read more...]
