Attachment parenting

Musical Beds: Helping Everyone Get a Good Night’s Rest

January 12, 2012




We have one rule when it comes to sleep in our house. Everyone needs to sleep and everyone deserves to be comfortable when they are sleeping. Where people sleep or how often that changes, isn’t really relevant as long as everyone is able to sleep comfortably. Sounds idyllic, you might say. But how do you [...]

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If there is a silver bullet, your toddler probably hid it

December 15, 2011




I’ve been trying to find a logical and straightforward way to write this post. But it’s complicated, so I’m just going to ramble. I’ve heard a lot of you talk about how difficult the toddler years are. I heard you in my post asking what you find hard about the toddler years, I heard you [...]

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Toddler World

December 14, 2011




Today, as part of the Carnival of Toddlers, I’m pleased to share a guest post by Bolaji Williams from www.ithinkyoushould.com about empowering our children. “Anyone can lead,” even our toddlers. Please join me in welcoming Bolaji. Toddlers are fascinating human beings for a variety of reasons, not least because so much of the ways in [...]

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I’m Scared of Age 10

November 25, 2011




I have friends who hate the newborn stage, I know people who fear the wrath of toddlers, and I understand all too well the parents who say it doesn’t get any worse than age three. We’re past that now. We’ve survived those stages, with all of the good and the bad. Our kids are now [...]

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The Family Dinner: Is it “All That”?

May 29, 2011




I love the book The Family Dinner.  I really do. But I love it in the same way that I love magazines like Style at Home or Luxury Travel Magazine — it is visually appealing, inspiring, and makes me salivate at the mouth. It is life porn. In The Family Dinner, the food is perfect, [...]

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Nine Ideas to Meaningfully Reconnect with Your Child

January 25, 2011




I’m away at the Blissdom Conference this week and decided to use the opportunity to feature some fabulous guest posts from bloggers I love. This first one, by Dionna from Code Name Mama, will be especially helpful for all of us mamas at Blissdom this week as we prepare to return home and reconnect. ~~~~~~ [...]

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I keep pouring

December 23, 2010




Have you ever poured your child a glass of milk, put the milk away, and sat down only to hear “Mama, can I have some more milk?” So you take the empty glass, fill it up, put the milk away, sit down again, and then hear “Mama, I’m still thirsty.” In his book, Playful Parenting, [...]

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Let’s throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I’m late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn’t want to attend. I read Erica Jong‘s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn’t saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven’t already said. She sounds like [...]

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“Baby training” begins at birth

November 15, 2010




At what age is it okay to start sleep training? When should you potty train your toddler? At what age should children learn to read? When do you lay down the law when it comes to table manners? These are questions that parents ask and that many, many parenting books offer answers for. My answer, [...]

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A different kind of baby-led weaning

March 1, 2010




When people talk about baby-led weaning, they are usually referring to the method of introducing solid food that involves introducing finger foods and allowing the baby to decide what and how much to eat, rather than the parents spoon feeding baby food. Over time, feedings at the breast are gradually replaced with self-feeding of the [...]

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