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Summer Travel Series: Tips for Making Airline Travel with Young Children Less Stressful
Airline travel is rarely enjoyable for anyone. Long security lines, delayed flights, tiny airline seats, and turbulence are just a few things that stand in your way from you and your vacation destination. Adding children to this equation throws in some extra challenges. As you are preparing for your journey, here are some tips to [...]
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Improve Your Child’s Oral Motor Skills
It can be fun to help your child improve oral motor skills. The more playful you can make it and the more like a game it is, the easier it will be to get your child involved and trying things. Try playing with your child in front of the mirror making faces and silly sounds [...]
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Grocery Shopping with Kids-7 Tips to help
My husband used to joke and say, “Once you feed and clothe the kids, they expect it every day!” Like it or not, feeding our families means grocery shopping. Taking kids grocery shopping can mean listening to crying, whining and begging. Navigating the store can cause a parent to wish for four arms. On the [...]
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Big Broadway Birthday for Kids
If your kid is a “Broadway Baby” and loves to sing and dance, this Broadway Birthday Party idea is possibly the perfect one for him or her. It is very easy to plan and just needs a few things for you to be able to put on a perfect themed party for them. 1. A [...]
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“But… It’s Spring Break, I don’t want to READ!”
All parents have heard it before, but can we blame them? With state testing just finishing, and the last school vacation three months in the past, kids need a break too! I love my job; that doesn’t mean I want to do it everyday. It is all right to give the kids a break from [...]
Related topics: book club, reading
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Tip: How to Help Your Child Ride a Two-Wheeler
It’s time to think about learning to ride that two-wheeler bike. One great method to try is to take the pedals off and lower the seat on the bike so your child can put her feet flat on the ground while learning to balance. Then start on a smooth surface that has only a very [...]
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Affirmations and the Parent-Child Well-Being
I recently created an Affirmation called “Conscious Bond, Conscious Baby” meant to be something special that parents can print and keep somewhere close to their heart, like their bedside table or even memorized. But what exactly is an affirmation and how does it contribute to the well-being of the parent-child relationship? Affirmations are positive, meaningful, [...]
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How to Calm Down After a Tough Day
Thanks to Oprah we’ve all shifted the way we see and deal with stress. We know it’s dangerous to our bodies, but knowing doesn’t magically change things. We have to make some changes to help ourselves. Here are seven ways to calm down before, during or after “one of those days”! 1. Breathe Breathing is [...]
Related topics: deep breathing, parenting advice, relaxation tips
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Mommy, don’t go!!! Easing your child’s separation anxiety
Having cared for many children over the years, I have seen the tears that so often precede and follow the departure of a parent. It can start off small; kids pulling you by the hand to come back inside. Then the fuss starts when you explain to them that you really have to go. You [...]
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Big Sister In Charge…Tips for Sibling Support when a New Baby is on the Way
Gerri, Daughter-in-Law Abi, and Granddaughter Evie “Big Sister in Charge” read the appliqué across my granddaughter’s sweatshirt. WOW! Another grandbaby on the way and Evie is going to be a “big sister”. We were so excited and yet, at the same time thinking how Evie will be two years and 2 months old when her [...]
Related topics: help for parents, helpful parenting advice, prepaing a sibling for baby, preparing for baby
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May 22, 2012 |