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100,000 Hours

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 [...]

Read Your Baby’s Sleepy Signals

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 [...]

A 10 Month Pregnancy?

Is a pregnancy nine months or ten months long? This is a popular pregnancy debate with many women across message boards and in pregnancy communities today. Most people know that a pregnancy consists of the first, second and third trimester. The definition of a trimester is “A period or term of three months”. If this [...]

Surviving a C-Section

by Lee-Anne Robert
After 42 weeks of pregnancy, two days of undergoing inducement and physical stress on the baby, my daughter was delivered via an emergency C-section. Oh, it was music to my ears when my gynecologist arrived in my hospital room at 4:30 a.m. and told me they were going to do an emergency C-section. [...]

When Should We Begin Teaching Our Children A Second Language?

by Beth Butler
Remember high school? You could choose French or Spanish. What you couldn’t choose was to be the right age to learn a new language easily. You memorized verbs, but you probably didn’t learn to speak fluently.
Today, enlightened school systems know better. Second languages are introduced in elementary school. Little kids do learn more [...]

Selecting Toys to Enhance Learning

By Candice Silsby
We are all overwhelmed by constant advertising. Parents are likely overwhelmed by all the challenges of being parents. I was an early childhood teacher for six years and I have been a children’s entertainer for over eight years. When I browse through K-*rt and the like, I think “landfill waste” and crying children.
I [...]

Mommies and Me Special Time

by Kimberly Hargis
Creating and making special memories with your child is very important, especially for your child’s development.
Special memories also help build a relationship with your child that will last a lifetime. Moms often do not have the money they would like to spend to do things with their children.
With that in mind, I have [...]

Bringing the Lessons Home

By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, PhD, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, PhD, and Diane Eyer, PhD
How can we help children blossom socially and emotionally? Read on for some specific tips.
Look for opportunities to discuss other people’s feelings
By explaining how other people would feel if a particular act occurred, you teach your child to take the perspective of others. “If [...]

Balance Your Roles: Partners vs. Parents

By Kathryn Sansone
It’s easy for parents today to get swept up in their children’s lives. From the minute we take them home, put on their first diapers, and give them their first bottles, we begin trying our best to fulfill all of our children’s needs and demands. Get some tips for reconnecting and romance from [...]

Mommies and Me Special Time

by Kimberly Hargis
Creating and making special memories with your child is very important, especially for your child’s development.
Special memories also help build a relationship with your child that will last a lifetime. Moms often do not have the money they would like to spend to do things with their children.
With that in mind, I have [...]

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