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The cardinal rule of parenting twins; do not compare them to each other. I break this rule with great regularity. Not publicly, but in my head. One of the coolest things about parenting multiples is that you can conduct little (harmless) experiments with your children…
What we thought. If you’ve been the parent of both boys and girls then you’ll know better than anyone that despite being from the same parents and raised in the same home, there is something profoundly different between the way your boys and girls developed.…
A ‘stranger’ is generally defined as someone whom your child does not know. As Colleen mentioned in her recent post on “Stranger Danger” over at Keeping Her Cool (Click HERE), we want to protect children from society’s unsavory elements, but we also don’t want them…
I cannot tell a lie, I’m personally not a huge fan of nature. Gee, that’s a heckuva way to start out a blog post meant to encourage people to get their kids outside, isn’t it? Stick with me. Here’s where I’m coming from; I am…
“Babies experience a very different world to us, dominated by bodily sensation and the present moment. The outdoors is a wonderfully sensorial place for a baby throughout this year, with lots of sensations for the body, things to notice, watch and reach for, objects and…
When a loved one dies, it can be really hard to consistently find the words to help your child through their grief experience while you are also grieving. It’s important to continue to tell children what’s going on in a way that they will understand.…
Today, I am sharing with you an almost year old post from my personal blog, Keeping Her Cool. This post is the very example of a way you can introduce the concept and respond to the concept of grief with your children. Our first daughter…
While loss is a normal part of life, it is not a normal part of a child’s life. Many young children may only be able to superficially understand what death means. To their minds it seems impossible that a friend, family member or pet is…
Over at Keeping Her Cool, Colleen’s writing about how to take care of the big siblings when a new baby arrives. (Click HERE to read). We’re all packed to the gills with toys and trinkets, but we want to make the big girls and boys…
I was innocently pregnant with my first child, when the know-it-all co-worker had the lecture with me. You know the know-it-all co-worker, right? The know-it-all co-worker doesn’t keep her opinion to herself because as far as she’s concerned, it’s not an opinion, it is the…
