7 Must-Dos When Preparing Your Kid for Kindergarten
Starting elementary school is an alarming, unrelenting descent into hell for many kids. They go from the loving cocoon of parental affection to a place where breaking a crayon could get a bitch cut (probably with safety scissors, but still…) Your kid will be bulletproof at school, however, if he’s seen, heard and experienced it [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Inactivity and Crappy Eating Habits Can Lead to Childhood Obesity
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but childhood obesity (and obesity in general) is a huge problem in this country. I could list off endless stats about how these lifestyle trends which include chemically-altered food and inactivity are endangering the physical wellbeing of our nation’s children, but that would take up a dozen pages and nobody wants to read that.
Keeping your Kid Behaved: Alternatives to Child Leashes
In a society where parenting advice doesn’t permit the use of the word “no” with kids, child leashes seem like a pretty sweet way to wrangle a kid.
Parents get away with this practice by writing it off as protection from tripping over shoelaces, speeding cars, gum stuck to the sidewalk, and other nasty stuff. It’s OCD in a ripe form, but it certainly does the trick.
However tempting it may be to simply leash and contain, harnessing your child is like using table salt: it’s the most over-used and boring solution. It’s time to get creative and check out the rest of the spice cabinet.
Nothing a Good Slap Can’t Solve
Life can be hard for your children, especially if they’re susceptible to being picked on. Obviously you can’t help giving birth to a kid who clearly won’t live up to the family name, but what you can do is teach them the necessary skills to protect themselves from the inevitable bullying that will encompass their [...]
What Happens if Your Child Swallows Your Wedding Ring?
We all know young infants feel the world with their mouth, and every now and then something they shouldn’t swallow gets in their tiny little belly. Based on research by the Parenting and Child Health website, this kind of thing happens all the time – and it’s normally not that big of a deal. Your [...]
A Mother’s Guide to Surviving the Fall Sports Season
It’s cold, it’s long and it’s boring. Watching kids runs around a field in the rain, gray, cold has to be one of the most painful experiences of parenthood both physically and mentally. Physically sitting on those hard benches, both cold, hard metal and wood, feeling your core body temperature dip from being outside, and [...]