November 2008

Potty Learning: The road to success

November 20, 2008




Cynthia, the Hippie Housewife has been thinking about and blogging about potty training recently and she sent me this reader question: I'd like to hear what you have to say about potty training (especially since you have a 4 year old boy and have experience with this) - how should one go about approaching this? That [...]

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Double the babies, double the work, double the leave?

November 19, 2008




In Canada, parents can take up to one year of leave after a baby is born. That includes 17.5 weeks of maternity leave for the birth mother (and 5 weeks of paternity leave for the father in Quebec), as well as an additional 32 weeks of parental leave that can be taken by the mother, [...]

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Donating this space to help children and families

November 18, 2008




Over the past few days, I have read about a number of people or organizations that are in need and wanted to reach out to my readers to see if any of them can help out. Here are a few places that you could really make a difference: Wanted for Christmas: Socks with No Holes: [...]

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Friendship and Parenting Styles

November 17, 2008




I'm excited tonight to answer my first reader question. Christina from MamasWorldwide.com had this great question: How do you deal with parents whose parenting styles are very different from your own?  Is friendship out of the question between attachment style and cry-it-out style parents? This is a really tough question and it is one that [...]

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What is attachment parenting?

November 16, 2008




I decided to get back to basics with my post today. I've faced a lot of misunderstanding recently about what Attachment Parenting is, so I wanted to clarify what it is to me and how it is different from other styles of parenting. Attachment Parenting Philosophy Attachment parenting is not a list of rules. It [...]

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Questions?

November 15, 2008




We're half way through NoBloPoMo and I'm looking for ideas for new posts, so I've decided to start a new series. About once per week, I'll tackle a reader question about parenting with my art and science of parenting approach. That means I'll see what research is out there on your question and I'll also [...]

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Friday evening pizza and meme

November 14, 2008




It's the end of the week. I'm tired and ready for the weekend. So we made pizza for dinner (nice and easy) and I'm taking the easy route on posting tonight too and doing the meme that Dani of Postcards from the Mothership. Unfortunately, I think Dani sent me her son's sickness along with the [...]

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Long lasting value of a woven wrap

November 13, 2008




Since so many people enjoyed yesterday's post, I thought I would continue with the International Babywearing Week theme today. After putting up my post yesterday, I realized it had been a while since I had little Miss Independent ("WALK!!") in my wrap, so I decided to hoist all 19 months and 25 pounds of her [...]

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Happy International Babywearing Week! (Wordless Wednesday)

November 12, 2008




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More on secular parenting

November 11, 2008




After writing my post yesterday about sin, I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic coming in from The Meming of Life: On Secular Parenting and Other Wonders, which it turns out is the blog of the Dale McGowan, author of Parenting Beyond Belief, the book I mentioned in my post. So I [...]

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