Toddlers’ tantrums are infuriating and embarrassing but if you can take yourself out of auto-pilot mode you can see you do have solutions.When Chelsey was born I spent months dreading the terrible twos. I had heard two-year-olds spent sometimes a year or more lying flat on … [Read more...] about Toddler Tantrum Tips
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Preventing Picky Eating
How to keep your child from becoming a picky eater? Preventing a picky eater starts when your child is a toddler. The beginning of a picky eater is a child who has fresh new taste buds, and does not know what they will enjoy or not enjoy. In order to keep your child from … [Read more...] about Preventing Picky Eating
Rules of Thumb When Your Child is Flying Alone
When you have a child flying alone there are some things you will want to do to help ensure their safety. Follow some of these rules of thumb to help ensure their safety and protect them from getting lost, stranded, etc.:1.Put them on direct flights. Most airlines will not allow … [Read more...] about Rules of Thumb When Your Child is Flying Alone
Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Cards and Peer Pressure
Peer pressure or pack mentality can stir up a lot of trouble for a child who would never think of breaking the law, hurting another person’s feelings or destroying property. A child who obeys parents and respects others may be emboldened to go against everything he knows on a … [Read more...] about Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Cards and Peer Pressure
Support Group Wisdom
The Parents Anonymous Group was a wealth of information; I wonder how I could ever have managed without it and the members. Here are a few quick tips that I learned in group that helped me many times:Nothing lasts forever.Change is inevitable… except when you have a … [Read more...] about Support Group Wisdom
Parenting viewpoints from parents in the trenches, because parenting doesn’t come with a manual. In addition to