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How to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten : 4 Tips for Success

September 21, 2022

After such a long and blissful summer, school days are finally upon us. Kids across the country are packing their backpacks and getting ready to return to class. For new kindergarteners and their parents, this can be a big new adjustment. Kindergarten readiness can be a little overwhelming for parents. After all, everyone wants their...

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7 Best Podcasts for Moms in 2022

January 12, 2022

Podcast listenership is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2022, it’s not uncommon for moms to listen in order take their mind off the kids or stress from work without feeling guilty about missing out on what they should have been doing at home all day long! The best podcasts for moms are those designed...

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How to Make Extra Cash For the Holidays

October 5, 2021

Learn how to make extra cash for the holidays with these different odd jobs that you can do on a part time basis. How to Make Extra Cash For the Holidays Fall is here and it’s time to start preparing your budget for all of your holiday festivities. Most families need a little extra...

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6 Parenting Tips for Raising Happy and Healthy Kids

March 11, 2021

Raising kids can be a challenging and the most rewarding part of life. Here are 6 parenting tips for raising happy and healthy kids. Parenting Tips for Raising Happy and Healthy Kids As a parent, the role that you play in shaping your kids future is cardinal. You are the person your kids look to...

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Raising Kids with Frugal Living

January 20, 2021

Raising your kids with frugal living is one of the best gifts that you can give. Less stuff tends to make kids appreciate what they have. Raising Kids with Frugal Living Many kids today are raised in homes filled with fancy gadgets, leased cars, rented homes and parents in debt. This lifestyle may not lead to...

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Teaching Your Children Resilience

October 26, 2020

Recently I attended a tech conference that taught about the struggles that each generation has dealt with. One of the number one concerns for this generation of children is teaching them how to have resilience. This is a sponsored post written by me, all thoughts and opinions are my own and I am a part...

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My Kid’s Breath Smells Like Poop

June 16, 2020

Find out what you can do if your kid’s breath smells like poop! We have a list of the potential causes of the smell and how you can fix it. My Breath Smells Like Poop Yeah, pretty gross title, right!? There are multiple reasons your kids can be stinky, but what do you do if...

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Becky
That happened to me last summer! The only difference was that we spent weeks trying to figure out where the smell was coming from! The night I got the flash light to look at his throat to see if it looked like he might have some type of infection, I also happened to look up his nose, and there it was…the wadded up gum wrapper! Where do you shove the gum wrapper before mom comes in and finds that you are eating gum when you know she will make you spit it out? Apparently up the nose.ReplyCancel
Cassia
Oh my gosh! That is the craziest thing ever!! I can’t believe that’s what would cause such a smell. Note to self. 🙂 lolReplyCancel
kelsey
Oh my gosh! So disgusting! Yet, so hilarious.ReplyCancel
sharon
This also happened to a friend of mine when her son was 3 years old. She found out that he had candida yeast in his system. She had a candida problem when he was born and he was born with thrush. If a person has candida you have to watch your food. Sugar and simple carbs create an environment that candida yeast loves. You can check with a naturopath or also check your health food store for a candida/parasite cleanse for him.
If you check out http://www.clarkia.biz they have a lot to pick
from for a cleanse also.ReplyCancel
Amber
OMG.! Your post was such a HUGE help for our son.!!! We also had the same problem with our 2 year old son just this past week. This horrible poop smell we figured his breath really stinks lol. We brushed his teeth 4x a days and still would smell it!! As of today i actually tried to search for answers and thats when i came cross this post. THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPENED to our son. I finally looked up his nose real careful and seen a bushy like object blocking his left nostil ..pulled it out and discovered a sponge like object.!!! I was sooooooo shocked.!!!!!!!! Lol i would like to thank you for this post!!!! Very helpful THANK YOU!!ReplyCancel
Melissa Hadfield
Haha Amber! I’m so glad I could help. It was shocking for me too! I never would have thought that smell could come from a foreign object. Glad you don’t have to smell it any more. 🙂ReplyCancel
Jimster
Tonsil stones or tonsiliaths smell like crap, but never heard of them in childrenReplyCancel
Becca
Tonsil stones?ReplyCancel
JD Belanger
I am smelling it to. I kiss kid to school a i hear arhh smell poop.
I had 9 theeth pull out 7 days ago. A molar theeth was past my sinuses so i have a hole that hills allright but i smell at least 4 diferent smell of poop.

When we eat it smell
Good food then after a bacteria in us adds the said smell. Now it is my throat and in my nose. It. Is wors when lyinghdown and when i sit. I do not whish this to any one i hope that it will not last long.
Did anyone ever identified that bacteria ? If so what’s her name being feminine.Lol.

Sad DadReplyCancel
JD Belanger
Gut news about bad smell from nose and oo t from the mouth for me at leeast.
Listen to this, the Dentist said not to blow my nose so that i don’t bust the wound that is getting better. So here it is i blew my nose properly after 7 days and found a klinex like thing came out , then i felt better a it was the first time in 13years thay i snore and that thing was blocking.

Good luck and find peace
Breathing DadReplyCancel
JD Belanger
Excuse my spelling but it is not the issue here i speak 2 languages i couldn’t be perfect you know.ReplyCancel
becki
I honestly cannot thank you enough! my son has had this awful poop breath for about 2 weeks and we were putting it down to the fact he has had croup/flu (he always has a putrid smell when he is poorly).
well tonight i couldn’t stand to give him a hug it was so bad and decided to have a look online and see if there were any suggestions. We ended up pulling out a huge chunk of mattress filing that he had shoved up there, the smell left him almost instantly and i can give my little on a hug again!!! thank you so much xxReplyCancel
- Melissa Hadfield
  Becki, I appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I am so happy I could help out! It’s seriously why I wrote this post. I knew I couldn’t be alone!! 🙂 I’m glad you can snuggle your little guy again.ReplyCancel
Bethany
Omgoodness! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you posting this! Better than any doctor out there! My son is four. He has had a cold since the beginning of October. I noticed this yucky smell coming from, what I thought, was his breath. I immediately thought he had a sinus infection and brought him to the docs a week ago today. He was put on antibiotics. I noticed he didn’t seem to be getting better and the ‘smell’ was worsening. So much so, that my husband and I had to drive with the windows down and its cold here in Canada now!
I decided that in the morning (today) that I would definitely take him back to the docs. But I decided to research it one more time and came across your post.
Sure enough, I asked him this morning , if perhaps he may have put something up his nose. I promised him I wouldn’t be mad if he told me. He didn’t say a word! I explained to him that it was very important that he tell me the truth. He preceded to tell me that he stuck a pom pom up his nose! (Those little ones kids use for crafts)
Upon inspection, I never would have known anything was up his nose as the pom pom was orange and covered in…well, you know…yuck!
As you had said, the smell was instantly gone as soon as i removed it! Boy was that fun 😉
All i can say is thank you, thank you, thank you. I bow to you and thank you from the bottom of my heart.
We can all breathe a lot easier around here now 🙂ReplyCancel
suada
I have the same problem with my son. His mouth started smelling like poop 2 weeks ago. At first I thought it was his breath because he hates getting his teeth brushed. And I looked in his mouth and up his nose but I didn’t see anything. I’m bringing him to the doctor tomorrow.ReplyCancel
suada
Omg!!!!! Right after posting my previous post I decided to look in his nose again and I saw something black..it looked like a round chocalate cereal.. I got my husband to hold my son and I got my tweezers and omggggg I pulled out a long peice of fabric.. it was the fabric that his nabi tablet was wrapped in..we couldn’t believe our eyes.. we never suspected him to put something in his nose. .but your post helped a lot ..thanxReplyCancel
- Cassia Denton
  So glad you got it figured out!!! Crazy stuff.ReplyCancel
Jessica
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! A week ago my 2 year old shoved a piece of chair foam up her nose. I thought I got it all out. This whole week she has stunk sooo bad. Baths, brushing teeth over & over & nothing helped. Just googled smelly drool & found you!! Took a flashlight & tweezers and found she still had a big chunk up there. Its out, smell went away instantly & now she is peacefully in bed!! Mom to mom, thank you!!ReplyCancel
matt
same thing to my 5 year old son. he had a tonsillolith (tonsil stones). got it removed today, size of a pea, and no more bad breath. easy procedure to remove. advice from gp is alcohol free mouth wash to clean the tonsils and prevent it from re-occurring.ReplyCancel
cindy
I am so grateful that I read your blog. My 2 year old daughter had been having foul breath for quite some time. I was thinking it was her tonsils. Then I was thinking it was possibly something much worse. When I read your blog I immediately looked up her nose and there was something there. A quick trip to the ER and a 1/2 wad of something was pulled out. OMG…..talk about gross. Thank you so much!ReplyCancel
Melanie
Hahahahahaha Oh my goodness, thanks for the laugh. Luckily my kids never stuffed things up their nose, so I can only imagine…ReplyCancel
JK
Thank you so much for this post. I’m sure this little effort saved a thousand moms. I suspect the same for my 2 year old son but I’m too scared to insert tweezers into his tiny nose. Any suggestion of how I can inspect and get it done. He doesn’t allow me to check also. But thanks again for guiding me in the right path. love to your kids.ReplyCancel
arien
Fyi.. just because he is a dentist doesn’t mean he is right. It may very well be tonsil stones that is making the kid’s breath stink. Surprisingly many dentists don’t even know what it is. I described the foul smelling stone to my dentist and he was perplexed. I had to search the internet to find out what it is. My 3 yr old has it, I have it, but the ways to rid them are only for adults or teenagers (nasal spray, special mouthwash). So I have to deal with his stinky poop breath until he can manage the mouthwash. Can’t really brush his tongue, as he pulls it back thus I am only able to clean half if I’m lucky. This doesn’t mean you have bad oral hygiene, this is what your tonsils are supposed to do, collect bacteria preventing it from entering your body.ReplyCancel
Diane
My foster sons breath smelled like poop. I took him to the doctor and after an examination she said that he was constipated and that was backing up and causing his breath to stink. I have to admit I was skeptical at first but started giving him the special powder in his juice in the morning and once he was “regular” his breath quit stinking.ReplyCancel
- Sonya
  Diane…I’m wondering if that’s why my 8yr old son breath stinks too…hmm need to investigate and find out…he even knows his breath is bad 🙁ReplyCancel
Kristyn
Thank you so much for this blog. Today I noticed my daughters what I thought was her breath to smell like poop. I have also noticed she has been sneezing a lot for about 5 days. Same as you all the blogs I came across all said its an infection or constipation. But she is not sick or constipated. Once I saw it was the nose I immediately (woke her outta bed) and sure enough it was her nose, and sure enough I can see so etching in her nose. Off to emerge she goes! Thanks so much!! I am glad I stumble upon your blog!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  So glad you found it helpful. We love that you stopped by! Please stick around!ReplyCancel
Casey Alexander
Oh. My. Goodness. Laughing so hard I’m crying. And now I will be calling the doctor to make an appointment tomorrow.ReplyCancel
- Janae
  hahaha Seriously! You wouldn’t believe how many people have read this post and realized that it was right! Good luck 🙂ReplyCancel
Patrick
Thank you Melissa. You are fantastic. We have been having this smell from our 4 year old daughters mouth for about a month now. She constantly chews on her finger nails. We thought she stuck poppy fingers in there. We were constantly washing and fighting the hands in the mouth habit. Brushing her teeth ferociously. Nothing was working.
Stumbled across your article and used a light to look up her nostrils and there was something definitely in there. Then it dawned on us she has been sniffling a lot lately like a cold. But never actually had a cold.
We had her lay down we we able to pull it out gently with tweezers. She was super brave and she feels so much better. It was definitely the source of the stench. Thank you. Thank you.ReplyCancel
- Melissa Hadfield
  I’m SO glad I was able to help, that is why I wrote this article. I knew I couldn’t be the only one that this would happen to! I’m glad you could clear her nose and get rid of the smell! 🙂ReplyCancel
Jasmin
Thanks for the post. My daughter had the same thing sure enough i found your post and in her nose was a sponge foam piece. Taking her to the pediatrician just incase it got infected.ReplyCancel
Paris
Waaay back in 1980. My sister noticed that my 3 year old niece stank! She had no clue as to why, She just knew that there was a problem. My niece, was a mouth breather and a drooler. My sister thought three went together and knew she had to get her checked out. Off to the doctor they went and up her nose he looked and there was TONS of red blanket fuzz up there. He pulled it out and no more smell or drool. She still is a mouth breather tho.ReplyCancel
Danelle
I had a friend whose son had this exact problem. And then in the comments I noticed someone said their son had shoved mattress filling up his nose. This is exactly what happened to my friend! Her son’s nose was running during the night and he didn’t want to get up and wipe it, so he just shoved some mattress filling up his nose and forgot about it. And he was in 3rd or 4th grade! It was so bad, it made the doctor gag when he pulled it out!ReplyCancel
Jennifer
I have been googling this issue all morning. After reading this, I quickly dismissed the advice because surely I would know if my 3 year old had something up his nose. I check him over every night during the bedtime routine. Whatever…. I decided to look anyway. I could barely see what look liked a wad of sick snot in the back of his nose. I immediately thought he had sinus issues. I had him blow but nothing came out. I got tweezers and found out it wasn’t snot. It was, in fact, a wad of paper. A rather large wad of paper that seems to have been there a while. Wow… I’m speechless. Thank you for this post!! I never would have thought this would be our problem. My 3 year old was so happy to have it out.ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  We are so happy this helped you! Please share it on facebook to help other mothers too!ReplyCancel
Victoria Ramos
Thank you soooo much! I was beyond exasperated trying to figure out what was making my 3yr Olds breath stink so bad! Read your post and immediately went and got a flashlight and tweezers just in case. Yup! Sure enough there was memory foam up there! You are a life saver!!! MANY THANKS!ReplyCancel
Roberta
This blog saved my sanity. For the past couple of days my son’s breath smelled like feces. I searched google and looked up why a toddlers breath would smell like that. Some said they could be lactose intolerant and to cut back on milk. Others suggested getting a tongue cleaner. Others said maybe the child has a sinus infection. Then I read your blog but dismissed it at first. So while I was inspecting his mouth I noticed the smell was actually coming from his nose! I checked and sure enough there was something up there. Pulled out what looked like a huge piece of cotton. And it smelled horrible! I’m so grateful for coming across this blog. Thank you!ReplyCancel
Molly
This is a fairly old post but this post completely saved me. It came straight to my rescue. My son stunk just like this article said, so bad the room stunk. I was like who pooped. Both my one and two year old said nope not me but my two year old then said “it’s just my stinky breath mom!” My sweet boy. Thought not my kid there’s no way he put anything up his noses. So for fun I checked and yup!!!!! There was something white up there. Tried the tweezers after two tries he was in a panic. We plugged they other side and he blow like a whale and said”it came out mom” a huge packed in piece of tissue! The stink is gone and he never felt a thing. Thank you to the writer/post since you were at the top of my search on this google search. Blessings.ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  We are so glad! This post has saved many a parent is such situations and we are so glad! It was a post that felt silly to share at the time but it has helped so many! All the best, CamilleReplyCancel
John
Thank you! My 2 year old daughter was getting nose bleeds as well as had foul breath. I checked her nose and there it was, a ball of cotton. Poor little woman, she is stink free now!ReplyCancel
- Camille Walker
  I am so glad!ReplyCancel

How to Get Gum Out of Hair

June 9, 2020

Gum can be such a sticky mess when it ends up in your child’s hair. Learn how to get gum out of hair without any scissors. How to get Gum out of hair There are many debates as to which way is the best way to get gum out of hair, but I am pretty...

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5 Realistic Ways to Limit Your Child’s Screen Time

September 12, 2019

Keep your children’s screen time habits from becoming unhealthy with these realistic ways to limit screen time. Today’s children spend a great deal of time staring at screens, and it shows. About 17% of American children qualify as obese, and many continue unhealthy habits throughout life. Cellphone addiction threatens interpersonal relationships with friends and family. ...

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What age should a child get a cell phone

August 28, 2019

When is a good time to get a cell phone for kids? This is a very debatable question and lots of opinions are shared. I’ve compiled a list of answers from parents of all walks of life. When I opened this question up on my instagram account (please follow me along here), I was shocked...

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