Practical Parenting

A Teething Baby’s Best Friend I happened upon these by chance – it was the end of the summer, and I grabbed the girls a box of popsicles for a treat.  It wasn’t even until I first opened the box a week later, that I noticed 1) they were miniature,…

When Lil’ M was born last year, I started doing two things to save my own sanity… it turns out they both saved me money too!  First, instead of going to the store with two kids under two with a foot of snow on the ground, I started having groceries…

Every day it seems to take less and less… Big M, my lovely threenager, can dissolve into tears at the drop of a hat.  It’s usually preceded by an audible gasp, followed by “Oh no…”  I don’t have a solution for ending the madness, other than you have to just…

Remember how I told you every kid is different?  Today, I witnessed feat number 142 that Lil’ M has now mastered, that Big M has yet to ever even attempt… climbing on the table.  Late last week she mastered climbing onto the kitchen chairs, so I knew this would not…

Even when I was working 80-100 hour weeks in Financial Services, I never so keenly felt the sense of there not being enough hours in the day until I was a mom.  Of course, work fed us, so with that basic need taken care of, it freed up a lot…

Before there were Pinterest and ‘Life Hacks’, before there was Martha Stewart Living, and even before there were Hints from Heloise… there was my Grandmother.  The oldest of six children, mother to eight, grandmother to 17, and great grandmother to 13 and counting, she was our family’s personal walking encyclopedia…

Big M has her own entourage – like a movie star or professional athlete; she has ‘people’. At first, I thought it was just my kid. I mean, I knew nearly every kid, myself included, had a security item – be it a special ‘blankie’ or teddy bear. But she…

Sleep… you will never talk about how much your child sleeps, or more likely, doesn’t sleep, as you do in those first few weeks you bring your child home from the hospital. Or when they consolidate down to one nap. Or when they learn to stand up in the crib,…

Sleep… you will never talk about how much your child sleeps, or more likely, doesn’t sleep, as you do in those first few weeks you bring your child home from the hospital. Or when they consolidate down to one nap. Or when they learn to stand up in the crib,…

Sleep… you will never talk about how much your child sleeps, or more likely, doesn’t sleep, as you do in those first few weeks you bring your child home from the hospital. Or when they consolidate down to one nap. Or when they learn to stand up in the crib,…

My husband is mess-a-phobic. If it were up to him, all paint, glitter, glue and any toy with more than 4 pieces would be banned from our household. However, as the one home with the kids all day, I know the value all these things provide. It’s important to expose…