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Potty Training Tip: Organic Training Underwear by Hanna Andersson!

August 18, 2010

In trying to reinforce my almost-three-year-old daughter’s potty training progress, I bought a few sets of these organic Hanna Andersson training underwear. She LOVES them and they have made saying goodbye to diapers much easier. This is a potty training tip that I wish I had heard about sooner!
From the Hanna Andersson website:

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Powerful and Practical Activities to Get Your Kids Thinking During Summer

August 11, 2010

Below are tips for fun and stimulating summer kids activities, written by Natalie Smith, a public school teacher who is BELOVED by my nieces (as students) and their parents. Natalie has been teaching for 10 years (3 years in first grade and 7 years in kindergarten) and is also a certified ESL teacher. [...]

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Magna-Tiles: An Engaging Educational Toy!

August 3, 2010

Over the past year, my daughter quickly fell in love with Magna-tiles, a fun educational toy, at her preschool. When picking up my daughter from school, there were several times that her teachers would make it a point to tell me that my 2.5 year old daughter spent a good 20 minutes that day [...]

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Sanskrit Chanting — For Kids Too?

July 25, 2010

A few years ago, I completed a yoga teacher training program. I had been interested enough in yoga that I wanted to pursue this program as an introductory overview of yoga. This program introduced me to the language of Sanskrit, which I don’t remember ever even knowing of its existence until this program.
Scientists [...]

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Pool and Spa Safety

July 23, 2010

With summer upon us, I have been thinking and hearing more about pool safety. In one of my email mommy groups, a mom shared a good experience with Safety Turtle, a pool and spa safety alarm system. Intrigued, I looked into this product further (and S File™ readers get a special discount!), which [...]

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Baby Sign Language: My First Step

July 18, 2010

My youngest daughter is about six months old as I write this and she seems ready to start learning some baby sign language, which is intimidating to me! However, our oldest daughter was taught it when she was around eight months (by her nanny at the time) and it was really wonderful to empower our [...]

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Toxic Breast milk? Part 2.

July 5, 2010

If you read our recent post titled “Toxic Breast milk”, then you know some of the background of my friend, Kathy, who came to the difficult decision to stop nursing her second child. For those of you who didn’t read it, you may do so by clicking on “Toxic Breast milk? Part 1.” Kathy’s message [...]

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Finally Liberated to Sleep!

June 30, 2010

This is for any mom who struggles to have her child (between the ages of 4 and 12 months old) sleep through the night.
As I write this, my youngest daughter is almost six months old and it has been at least six months since I have had more than 2 – 4 consecutive hours of [...]

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Our New, Double Stroller: UppaBaby Vista 2010

June 20, 2010

Over Memorial Day weekend, my husband and I were admiring the new UppaBaby stroller that friends of ours just purchased for their newborn. In many ways, it looked like the BugaBoo that we had purchased in 2007, but, unlike the BugaBoo, the UppaBaby has the potential to grow into a double stroller.

Completely trusting our friends’ market research and [...]

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Invaluable With Potty Training: Our Travel Potty Chair!

June 20, 2010

We recently started potty training my oldest daughter and this travel potty chair has made leaving the house much more stress-free! No matter where we are — park, City sidewalk, side of the highway, or shopping mall — we don’t have to worry about finding my daughter a potty when she needs to go. This [...]

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← Previous Entries

Parenting - What I Wish I Knew Sooner... (in beta version 1.2)

Potty Training Tip: Organic Training Underwear by Hanna Andersson!

Powerful and Practical Activities to Get Your Kids Thinking During Summer

Magna-Tiles: An Engaging Educational Toy!

Sanskrit Chanting — For Kids Too?

Pool and Spa Safety

Baby Sign Language: My First Step

Toxic Breast milk? Part 2.

Finally Liberated to Sleep!

Our New, Double Stroller: UppaBaby Vista 2010

Invaluable With Potty Training: Our Travel Potty Chair!

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