Posted in Giveaways! on Jun 16th, 2011
I’m betting that most women who have ever been pregnant in the United States of America have read the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting. I know it was my pregnancy bible while I was growing the girls, and I even consulted it quite often in my next two pregnancies, despite my familiarity with [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Apr 7th, 2010
My mom learned from her mom that kids should learn not to touch breakable objects. Parents should leave everything within a curious toddler’s reach so that he can be taught that touching these things is a no-no. This is how she raised me and my sisters, ostensibly with good results. I presume that we were [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Nov 17th, 2009
One word: Distraction. It’s one of the best lessons I ever learned from my kids’ paternal grandmother. Toddlers have notoriously short attention spans. They also have very few resources from which to draw to know how to effectively and calmly express their emotions. The result? A little person with unpredictable moods and unstable actions. Distraction [...]
