Once a year that special day rolls around; the day you celebrate the birth of your baby. No matter how old your child, he or she is forever your baby. However with each passing year there are many notable changes. While we may take pictures of them all the time, highlighting beautiful life moments, there’s something [...]
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This baby shower game is very popular at showers and is great for everyone at the party, even children who can read and write. Before the day of the party, select as many words as you want that are related to pregnancy and babies, no less than 25 is recommended. Now, the fun part is [...]
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This page presents the top 1000 given names for births in the 1920’s. The data comes from a 5% sampling of Social Security card applications with dates of birth from January 1920 through December 1929.
All names which occurred at least five times in the sample are included in the table below. The [...]
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By Elizabeth Pantley, Author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers & Preschoolers (McGraw-Hill)
We parents today have demanding schedules, and we juggle multiple tasks all day long. There’s too much to do, and never enough time to do it. The bedtime routine often gets slotted as one more “thing to do” after which we [...]
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by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007)
Discipline is a very complicated and complex matter. We want to enjoy our children, we don’t want to stress about the little things, and we want to be forgiving to our children and our selves. However – there are many, many things we must get [...]
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by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007)
From the time your baby is born until the time your child leaves home for college or wherever the future leads, the two of you may have over 100,000 hours to interact and connect. It would be absolutely, utterly impossible for all of those 100,000 [...]
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By Elizabeth Pantley, Author of No Cry Sleep Solution
A good way to encourage good sleep is to get familiar with your baby’s sleepy signals, and put her down to sleep as soon as she seems tired. A baby cannot put herself to sleep, nor can she understand her own sleepy signs.
A baby who is [...]
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by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Potty Training Solution
When your child is learning to use the potty should you give lots of applause and praise, or simple, matter-of-fact acceptance? Which is the right response for potty-training success? If you research this seemingly simple question you’ll get adamant advice on both ends of the [...]
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by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007)
Does your child dawdle, complain or fuss when you drop her off at daycare or preschool? Some children have a difficult time adjusting to changes. They like things to flow in a predictable way. Anything that upsets their current activity is cause for alarm. These [...]
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by Elizabeth Pantley author of The No-Cry Discipline Solution (McGraw-Hill 2007)
As if it isn’t challenging enough to raise children, most parents believe myths that make them feel confused and inadequate. These horrible myths can spoil the joy of raising your children. You may have never realized how intensely these beliefs affect you, but they do. [...]
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