My toddler is ‘lying’- what should I do? Toddlers (children between 18 months and 3 1/2 years) do not have the cognitive development to actually lie in the way adults understand lying. To lie, a child needs to understand that there is an actual objective truth – and toddlers are not yet dealing with that […]
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2012 Green Gift Guide for Parents
Last week I started off your holiday green gift guide with ideas for the kiddos. This week I wanted to focus on parents. Honestly, if you are at all into sustainable practices, gifts should be items that are reusable, made by and from sustainable materials/practices and be made as locally as possible. These three together […]
Martha Stewart Home Office Discbound Notebooks
Keep holiday organizing simple! If you are a naturally, infallibly organized person, this does not concern you. In fact, you should write a book for those of us who have trouble remembering what season we are in. As we approach the new year, I will once again be resolving to “Get Organized.” And then of […]
How Early Can I Take a Pregnancy Test?
You asked and you shall now receive. It’s only fair for us to share all of this stored up knowledge about having a baby and what is going on with your body during those nine (really ten) months. We will now answer, in a very public forum, all of those burning questions about having a […]
Immune Building Foods
Hi Super Moms! Happy Fall. I LOVE this time of year – the chill in the air invigorates me – although I live in Los Angeles, so the chill isn’t quite what it is in New York. New York winters call for warming foods, and foods that boost our immunity. Our children’s schools and our […]
Helping Parents Raise Good People
Thanks to my daughter’s occasional – OK, almost daily – 30 minute DVD or TV breaks, she knew her ABCs and 123s in English, Spanish and Sign Language by the time she was three. She learned why bananas turned brown (from Sid the Science Kid) and the sequence of how to get to the golden […]
Rain in Our Children’s Lives
One of the hardest parts about being a parent is seeing your children in pain. Not just physical pain, but emotional pain. Seeing the hurt expressions on their little faces if they have been teased or excluded. Wanting them to go through life and only be happy, but knowing this is impossible. That is why […]
Grandparents Grapple With Question: Is Santa Claus Real?
We have two grandchildren, five-year-old Danny, and three-year-old Jessie. We live near them and spend a lot of time with them. As we head into the holidays, here’s our problem. Our daughter-in-law Bethany “does Santa” in a big way, e.g., leaving cookies and milk out for him, planting reindeer hooves marks in the yard, having […]