Sometimes as parents we just really need a good laugh and once in a while that means it’s at the expense of our children. If you missed Jimmy Kimmel‘s You Tube challenge to have parents tell their kids that they ate all of their Halloween candy, then you missed out because it was hilarious. However,...
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Too “Rated-R” For The Pumpkin Patch?!? Parents What Do You Think and What Would You do? Written by Michelle Rivera
You gather up your little ones for your traditional family outing to the pumpkin patch during the Halloween/Fall season. They’re all dressed up in their cute Fall attire, Halloween shirts, or costumes and you look forward to a day of hayrides or tractor rides, corn mazes, petting zoos, and pumpkin picking. You’ve arrived...
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What Is Infant Massage? Written by Jade Lee
I have been teaching Infant Massage for a while now and I still get so many people who come to me and ask, what exactly is Infant Massage? My favorite term for Infant Massage is that it is “The Art of Touch.” It is a beautiful form of bonding between a parent and their child...
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“The Tooth Fairy” Teeth Dilemma…What Do You Do With Them? Written by Elissa R. Lerma
There are some aspects of parenting that you are just not prepared for. Those things that other parents fail to mention and lately I have had a question about one of those things that has been troubling me. See my oldest is 6 years old and you know what 6 year old’s have a tendency...
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Not All Moms Are Created Equal…Written by Lindsay O’Neil
When it comes to core values, I think us mamas (and papas) are all a lot more alike than we are different. We all tend to focus on the big things – family, finances, health, and safety. And in that way, we can all commiserate and relate to one another. However, no matter how much we...
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Natural Home Birth Streams Live On The Internet. Written by Elissa R. Lerma
So the buzz at the mommy blog water cooler a few weeks ago was about this Canadian woman named Nancy Salgueiro who was going to be streaming her natural home birth live on the Internet. That’s right, a baby was going to be born live in front of an online audience. My first thought was “ewwww”. Then...
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Are Halloween Costumes Over Sexualizing Our Kids? Written by Michelle Rivera
As I was shopping online for my two-in-a-half year old daughter’s Halloween costume this year, I noticed a somewhat disturbing trend. It’s a trend that is not just geared towards teenagers either, but more disturbingly a trend that seems to be geared towards tweens and even children of a younger age. Yes I’m talking about...
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Should Mothers Take Time Between Births To Create A Big Family? Written by Dee Mason
Traveling with children can be difficult, to put it mildly. Traveling with multiple children is of course more difficult. Traveling with multiple children, all under the age of 3, while pregnant, is nearly impossible. I recently watched a husband and wife team try to do just this, and it was kind of a heartbreaking experience. ...
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My Groovy Planet Written by Staci
As moms, we are responsible for teaching our kids a varied of incredibly important things: how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, how to care for skinned knees and broken hearts, and how to brush their teeth and have them spit without covering every inch of the bathroom in toothpaste. However, some of the really...
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I Fulfilled A Promise To Myself With TaskRabbit! Written by Michelle Rivera
There are a lists of tasks that I absolutely hate to do and here they are in no particular order: Fold laundry, iron, wash cars, and clean bathrooms. Yes these tasks are my Nemesis. Thank goodness TaskRabbit was around this week to help me conquer one of these tasks and that was the car wash....