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Minivans vs SUVs: For Moms on the Go

March 20, 2014

Minivans vs SUVs: For Moms on the Go By: Mary Kremer Is your family thinking of making the switch from a car to an SUV or minivan? Are you trying hard to figure out which one might be the best fit for you? I recently had the opportunity to test drive and compare several SUVs...

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To Raise a Mother

March 19, 2014

When you begin having babies, it’s impossible to imagine being responsible for a human being. The thought of giving birth to a soul, that will depend on you for the necessities of life, is intimidating and overwhelming, at least. It is exciting, yet terrifying all at the same time. Exhaustion plays a big role...

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Life Lessons Learned from Candy Crush

March 10, 2014

Let’s be honest, generally speaking, Candy Crush is a waste of time. I should know better than anyone, having recently wasted about 8 months on it! I’ve learned, however, that there are a few parallels between life in the world of Candy Crush and life in the real world. “That which we persist...

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Recovering from Mono – What you can do to help

March 7, 2014

Recovering from mono can be pretty miserable. Here are some tips for those recovering from mono or for family and friends of someone recovering from mono. Epstein Barr or EBV is the virus that is responsible for causing mono (mononucleosis). While this is the most common association with Epstein Barr, the virus can also...

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What’s an Adult?

March 6, 2014

It’s crazy to be almost four decades old, and be only totally sure about one thing: That I don’t know much. I remember when I was young, feeling like all those old people had it figured out, right? When you get old, nobody fights anymore, steals, lies, nobody talks about people behind their backs –...

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15 Tips for Breastfeeding: A Complete Guide for Nursing your Baby

March 4, 2014

15 Tips for Breastfeeding: A Complete Guide for Nursing your Baby Successfully Written by: Camille Now that Jett is three months old I am starting to feel like I am coming out of the new baby zombie fog that settles in a bit with a new baby. Things are starting to feel a little normal...

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Aimee @like mother like daughter
Camille, These tips are so helpful! I have to admit I am a little nervous to have our first baby in just 2.5 months! For a lot of reasons, and nursing is definitely one of them. Thanks for the ideas on things I can buy to help with it and things I can try to do as well!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  You’re welcome! I am so excited for you! Don’t feel bad if it feels totally weird at first and please let me know if you have any questions! 🙂ReplyCancel
kristen
Great tips. I almost gave up with my first (and only, so far) on day 3 because the pain was so bad. But a lactation consultant at the hospital really helped and encouraged me (mostly, she told me that it *truly* would get better in a relatively short amount of time, and it did). And I’m SO happy I kept with it. In fact, my 17-mo-old little girl is still nursing morning and night.

My next nursing issues have to do with nursing while pregnant, and then nursing a toddler and a newborn. I’m not pregnant, but it could happen while my toddler is still nursing because I’m waiting for her to wean herself (and she’s not interested at all in giving it up yet). I’ve heard that nursing while pregnant can cause preterm labor, which I definitely don’t want! I’m also afraid that once I have another baby, my toddler who is currently down to twice a day (much to her chagrin) will want to nurse more frequently. Anyone have experience with tandem nursing?ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  I agree, that a little encouragement can make all of the difference in the world especially when it can feel so daunting. I have read that you can nurse while pregnant but it can become difficult…maybe I will research this a little more and write a post on this as well. 🙂
  
  As far as weaning a toddler goes…my best advice on that is to go out of town for a few days and have a babymoon! Having a few days away and being unavailable as a milk source helps both you and your babe. That is what I have done before with much thanks to my sister for helping with my little one while I went into transition of no longer nursing.ReplyCancel
Prudent Mummy
Agree with so much in your list! 🙂 getting comfortable while nursing is so important, especially since they nurse for almost an hour each time in the first few months! I did so much research on the internet about all the questions I had with regards to my baby, and did quite a bit of reading too.

On a related note, while I did feel it was important to invest in good nursing bras as you have listed, I was less willing to spend on nursing clothes. These are some ways that I turned my normal clothes into nursing wear.

http://www.prudentmummy.com/maternity-nursing-fashion/turn-normal-clothes-nursing-clothes/ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  Thanks for sharing!ReplyCancel

10 tips for surviving a bed wetter

March 3, 2014

Hello fellow parent. You may be here today because you have a bed wetter. First of all, welcome. Second of all, I feel your pain. I know what you’re going through because I don’t just have one bed wetter, I have two. I am not an expert on the subject of bed wetting, but I...

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Mindy
We put our son to bed at 8. We wake him up and he goes to the bathroom when we go to bed around 10/10:30. He has been dry ever since. This summer when there are less blankets and layers to wash, we will be trying to phase out the middle of the night wake up.ReplyCancel
SD
My son is almost 7 and has wet the bed at least once a week for forever. We tried waking him at night. Once we had him pee before bed at 8, then again when we went to bed at 10:00, and once more at midnight when his brother woke everyone up (he’d had a nightmare). In the morning the bed was peed anyway. The link for us has been how tired he is. With school all day and extracurricular activities after, he was wetting the bed more and more. I pulled him out of school, added one to two naps during the week, and I try to get him in bed by 7:30. We went three weeks recently with dry sheets. We also have just one blanket and a sheet on his bed so he doesn’t get too warm. That has made a big difference. I also don’t restrict water and try not to get frustrated. He is my only bedwetter so far so I at least am thankful for that! Melissa, I thank you for sharing this because it isn’t something people talk about. All your tips are right on. I buy my mattress protectors for $10 each at Wal-mart. They have been awesome. I also tried the Nytone pee alert system. It worked but the device has had so many technical difficulties that I can only mildly recommend it for the $90 price tag.ReplyCancel
GM
This is such a tough thing to deal with as a mom. I have always felt like a failure regarding this. And I judge that my mother and grandmothers feel it is our parenting that is the problem. I have 2 kiddos, a son and a daughter. My daughter is younger (age 7) and she is the bed wetter, every night. My doctor is unconcerned. We’ve tried waking her up a few times during the night and it is really hit and miss. She started to get teary and stressed when she had an accident so I have backed off again.ReplyCancel
Kim
I also have two bed wetters. There is another option to consider: we had great success using Dr. Sagie’s bedwetting clinics online, along with his bedwetting alarm. It helped my older daughter go from almost nightly bedwetting to very rarely bedwetting. My kids are perfectly healthy so I don’t think it’s a physical problem, I think Dr. Sagie is right, it is a sleep issue. The bedwetters are unusually deep sleepers and they just don’t wake up to go potty. We are fixing to use it with our younger daughter. The daily laundry is such a bummer. Good luck Moms!ReplyCancel
kim
Also, I have noticed when I make sure they get plenty of rest, even going back to making them take naps, they will stay more dry. I really think this is sleep related. The more rest they get the better they do.ReplyCancel

50 favorite chapter books to read aloud to young children

February 20, 2014

Last month I made a list of the 50 best read-aloud chapter books for kids. The list consisted of books I have already read to my two young boys and some more that we were planning on reading. Check out the post to find out what I have learned while reading books aloud to my...

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Marcy
You should check out Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and Stone Fox… my two favorites. Thanks for you list most I have read to my kids but I have some new ones to enjoy!ReplyCancel
Ellie
The Wildwood series by Colin MeloyReplyCancel
Renee
Great list! A family favorite that I have highly recommended to many families is The Phantom Tollbooth. A fantastically fun, clever classic that must be read out loud, with voices. 🙂ReplyCancel
Sydney
One of my favorites is “Mandy” by Julie Edwards (it’s actually Julie Andrews). Such a great book! I read it several times as a kid and my daughter just got done reading it aloud to me over a few days time. She got 100% on the AR reading test she took for it too. Great read! One of my favorite younger children’s books is “Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. My mother read that to me so many times I had it memorized.ReplyCancel
Beth
It isn’t a chapter book, but we have read it over and over and over…Harry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates. Ridiculous, but both of us (my son is 4) end up laughing every single time. It has definitely joined the ranks of favorite books in our house!ReplyCancel
MC Dobbs
Wonderful lists! Please include John Reynolds Gardiner’s book Stone Fox, and also include Wilson Rawl’s Summer of the Monkeys. These books were always voted best books read by my elementary students for the last 34 years. That is a strong recommendation!ReplyCancel
Caroline
My all-time favourites for my six year old daughter are the recent “Lilliput” by Sam Gayton, and the classics Charlotte’s Web, Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland.ReplyCancel
Laurie Travis
Snot Stew by Bill Wallace is funny and fun. It is NOT about snot but two cute kittens and how they perceive humans and dogs.ReplyCancel
Charlotte Patterson
I am a school librarian and am sharing your wonderful list with my teachers, who frequently ask me for a good book to read aloud.
two of my absolute favorites:
1. The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz.
Set in 1784 in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, ten-year-old Ann Hamilton (Fritz’s great-great grandmother!) is the only girl and is lonesome and homesick for her friends and the comforts of civilization. The story ends with a visit by George Washington who eats supper with them. George Washington really did eat with the Hamilton family. The event is recorded in his diary.
2. Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. In 1687 in the Connecticut colony, Kit Tyler, feels out of place in her aunt’s Puritan household. She befriends an old woman who is considered to be a witch by the community. Kit suddenly finds herself on trial for witchcraft. (After all, she could SWIM!) You will learn more about colonial life through this book than any history book.ReplyCancel
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Allyson
Thank you for these lists! Two of our favorites are Howl’s Moving Castle by. Diana Wynne Jones and her sequel to that book which is called House of Many Ways. They are enjoyed by kids and adults alike! ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  Thank you for the suggestions!ReplyCancel

Dear Ella,

February 20, 2014

written by: Janae You’d think after raising one niece, one step daughter and three of my biological daughters – I’d be used to it. That age. The age where a girl’s world starts shifting and taking on different shapes and definitions. That time when you transform from a young girl, that knows her value, beauty...

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Turning 30: Five Ways to Make it Rock!

February 10, 2014

Written by: Camille I must be honest in admitting that turning 30 has not been something that I looked forward to. It isn’t something that I feared, rather, it was something that I knew was sneaking upon me and some how in my mind it meant that things would undeniably be different and that my...

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