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 […]
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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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
When You Have Concerns About Your Child’s Behavior
Last week we had the great fortune of having Lisa Mednick Owen* host a teleclass on what to do when you, or your child’s teacher, has concerns about your child’s behavior. It is not uncommon for a parent to notice that their child behaves differently than other children in a playgroup or on the playground, […]