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Callum, Eleanor, and I just returned from a week long adventure to my parents’ house. I’ve flown solo with Callum several times so adding in one more didn’t seem to daunting a task…and it wasn’t! But I thought I’d share what I did/learned to make air travel easier. Choose Flights Wisely: Ideally, a single flight is [...] Enjoying newborn Eleanor snuggles You may have heard of the fourth trimester. Basically, it’s the idea that the first 3 months of life are very much an extension of life in the womb for baby. Baby has spent 40 weeks (or there abouts!) having her every need attended to. She never knew [...] If you have a child, I have no doubt that family, friends, and strangers have given you all kinds of advice, both solicited and unsolicited. The audacity some people have never ceases to amaze me. However, somewhere between the strangers telling me I need to put socks on my child to others telling me that [...] In Our Babies, Ourselves, the author, Meredith F. Small, discusses “parental goals.” She defines parental goals as, “conscious or unconscious objectives that influence every action with their offspring.” Since I read this book about a year ago, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this concept. Small says that overwhelmingly, American parents’ As any toddler mama knows, toddlers are very into “I do it!” or in the case of Callum (who is just now working on first words), a very insistent finger pointed at his own cheek. Sometimes, the action in question is something that Callum can easily do – say pull the laundry basket full of [...] Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting Essentials This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have shared the parenting essentials that they could not live without. Please read to the end to find a [...] If you looked at my son’s life in pictures, it would be safe to assume that I was hardly around him – ever. I’m in maybe 5% of the pictures. Of course, that is because I’m the one behind the camera, but no one really knows that, and in 50 years, no one will know [...] Okay, so this is a pretty random topic for our blog, but I wanted to write this anyway. When I was in college, I got a virus on my computer. I took it to a random guy to fix it, and he wiped out my hard drive without backing it up first. My hard drive [...] I always had a vague nursing goal of making it to 2 years with Callum; as it turns out, that was pretty much right on the money. This was never a firm deadline of I “absolutely must make it to 2″ or “I’ll definitely stop once we hit 2″ but rather a general sense that [...] How many times have you heard a parent tell their child, “You know better than that!” or “You should know better!” Maybe you’ve said it yourself. I know I’ve said it a few times. But really, should your child know better? Sure, you may have told them repeatedly in the past or maybe you punished them [...]  |
   
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