I have known my daughter was different since she was around 18 months old. Before she was two, she knew her way around town. When we would drive by Home Depot she would ask to go to "the paint...
As a daycare provider, nanny and child care consultant, I’ve seen kids totally own toilet training and I've witnessed kids (and parents) retreat. As a stay-at-home mom, I now spend my days with my own little trooper. Tim’s my...
Many people believe that a teacher's job is easy. Some may think that a teacher's day looks a little bit like this...
Get to work at 8 a.m.; have fun with children all day - reading, doing some math, talking...
Christmas is right around the corner, and I can’t help but think about my 3-year-old’s growing awareness of the world around her. What piqued my interest was my husband’s recent trip to the store to pick up some groceries...
I was THAT future mom. You know, the naive woman who swears she will breastfeed no matter what. I mean our bodies are built to nurse, why isn't everyone doing it?
I was dealt a harsh reality the day my...
I opened my Facebook account and up popped a photo memory from two years ago. My baby boy was bald with a big smile, lying on his changing table, grabbing onto and fascinated with his feet. He found them,...
My daughter just turned seven. As she gets older each year, I enjoy looking back on who she used to be and watching who she is becoming. Like how when I found out I was having a girl I...
I admit it. I used to be a yeller. One of those moms who yelled at her kids all the time when they didn't listen or did something wrong.
I'm not proud of it and I hate that it used...
When we completed potty training with our third child I remember shouting from the rooftops (OK, not really, it was just Facebook) that we were ‘almost’ a diaper free house. Little did I know that we would be embarking...
In my journey of parenting, I have found that I have learned more than I have taught. I have two boys aged seventeen and nineteen, and a daughter who is twenty-one years old. It has been a joy and...
My 2-year-old still loves everything Frozen. It brings her joy every day.
Until it doesn't.
Here are 12 ways Frozen is ruining my toddler's life....
1. She wants to wear ALL the Frozen Socks, but only has two feet. And two hands.
2....
From the moment my husband and I decided it was time to start our family, I have been surprised by many things related to pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood/parenting. Things I didn't know about and didn't expect. There is so...
To My Precious Daughter,
I know times are tough right now and you want to be in school more than anything. A break from classes and school was nice, but you're ready to be back with your teachers and friends.
You're...
Libraries are always magic. But some libraries are more magic than most. Some make it easier to slip into the dreams of books, of rows and rows of possible worlds, possible people, of the ink-and-paper scent of story. And...
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