Posts tagged - Toddlers
With your first baby, you may have watched some of the pregnancy shows and design shows to help you pick names, decide what the room would look lie, and what birth would be like. Now you get to watch Dora the Explorer instead, while you are scrubbing stains off your carpet. When you were pregnant the first time you may have still gone out to eat with your husband and enjoyed it but now when you go out you spend your entire time telling your toddler to sit down…
One of my great joys of motherhood was hearing my first child would be a girl … a girl I could treat like my little dolly. Dress her up, take her everywhere just like a little girl would bring her doll.
My mom and I went the next day after finding out she was a girl and picked out every girly, frilly, little thing we could find. Yes, we are those people. Now per my husbands simple request, I easily agreed not to go too girly, such as princess everything. We both agreed to do more of a laid-back surfer girl style, but I could still dress her up. I bought so many foo-foo dresses and headbands – just waiting to dress up my little girl.
Our kids are much more computer savvy than we were at their age — or even are now.
Remember when we barely knew how to turn the thing on and we were afraid that it would “crash” if we touched it. Well things are very different now. Our kids are even learning on a day to day basis from computers: taking tests, learning to type, and so on.
As a country and even throughout the world, we have come to realize that we are facing a crisis when it comes to our health and especially our weight. Really it has gone too far as we are no longer affecting just ourselves; we are hurting our children and our future generation. What are the issues, what is causing this, and how can we reverse the reality so many obese toddlers are facing? When it’s No Longer Just Cute Baby Fat Research shows that what a child weighs even at [...]
I think these days we are all trying to eat a little healthier as well as trying to get our kids to. Here are two easy to make kids recipes that your kids will love and they will never even think of them as being “healthy.” One of Maddie’s, and I think most kids’ favorite food is spaghetti. For a couple years I have experimented in making the healthiest and tastiest versions I could. Here is what I’ve come up with … I hope you enjoy! Number one on my [...]
The great debate: Which age is worse, Two or Three? Is it the terrible twos with the screaming, crying fits, or the thunderous threes with the attitude and sudden outbursts? We’ll let you be the judge! With Maddie her twos were so horrific I’m not sure who cried more, me or her. Let’s get into it… The Terrible Twos At 21 months something snapped inside my daughter that I can’t explain. She went from being my little come-a-long dolly to some kind of beast I could barely control. She found [...]
Summer may be nearing its end, but we still have plenty of time to squeeze in any last activities with our kids. Especially if our children are heading back to school, we will want to go have some fun while we still can! If you have older children too here are some activities that everyone in the family will enjoy. For now we will focus on summer activities and will wait to talk about what to do in the winter when the time comes. Here are my top 5 Summer [...]
As much as I hate to say it, because I am not a fan of summer heat, there are a lot of great activities to do with your kids in the summer. We have discussed already some activities with toddlers that your little one might enjoy but whether or not your toddler will enjoy fishing depends more on her personal likes and dislikes. Take your toddler fishing! When Maddie was two I couldn’t help but get her a tiny little fishing pole made for kids — I realized that no [...]
So, what does it take to create a toddler schedule that is beneficial for all? Structure, structure, structure! First, let me begin this story a few happy months ago when my husband and I used to have peaceful evenings and restful nights… My daughter was born full term yet very small at only 5 lbs and 14oz so I have always gotten away with putting her in tiny clothes and keeping her in a crib – until recently. This last winter she finally hit her highly anticipated growth spurt that [...]
