By Elise Jones, babybites blog editor I’ve come to a point where sometimes I struggle with the choices I make and the ones I should be making. Case in point, the peanut butter jar. When I’m done with my peanut butter, it’s time to recycle the jar. I HATE washing it out (a requirement for […]
Category: Dads
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A Letter from Heather — Protecting Your Children From Predators
Dear babybites Community, In response to everything happening at Penn State, we would like to invite all of you to attend a special free teleclass called My Body Belongs to Me: Protecting your Children from Predatorswith NYC Assistant District Attorney, sex offender prosecutor and guest on The Oprah Show, Jill Starishevsky. In this talk, Jill […]
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: Dreading the Family Thanksgiving Dinner
I am dreading the annual Thanksgiving dinner with my husband’s family. My father-in-law (FIL) and his brother have strong and differing political opinions and they will inevitably end up having one of their shouting matches. It is so upsetting to me, and I envision our three-year-old son, James, being aware of it this year and […]
Green Parenting: Back to Basics
By Elise Jones, blog editor So not to go on and on about that freak snowstorm that happened Oct. 29 but it was such a doozy for those of us in the outer suburbs of NYC. Most of us didn’t have power for 3+ days and no school for a week (including myself & […]
A Letter from Heather – Praying to The Sleep God
Hi Everyone! I just got back from the babybites lunch on sleep where we had a packed room of over 20 moms. All this sleep talk reminded me of what up until recently I had repressed. That is, just how downright difficult chronic sleep deprivation is on a new mom. It’s like having the flu […]
Getting Away
By Sarah E. Visbeek, author of In the Trenches of Mommyhood When you have three children, going away without them becomes a near impossibility. Hence the reason that my husband and I, together, have not spent more than at least one night away from our children since oh, probably 2008. Yes, we try to have […]
Ask Dr. Gramma Karen: I Don’t Want My Mother-in-Law to Baby Sit
Both my husband and I work full time. We used to have Alice, our three-year-old daughter, in a day care program that she really loved going to and we felt was good for her. However, when my mother-in-law had a forced retirement a couple of months ago and said that she’d like to be Alice’s […]
Green Parenting: November 15 is America Recycles Day!
By Elise Jones, blog editor As a child, I remember the act of collecting cans was the extent of anything that resembled recycling. Recycling wasn’t a concept I fully understood or embraced until I was out of college and on my own. It was easy to recycle when I lived in the city because all […]