Do You Have Unhealthy Habits You Hide From Your Kids?

Over on Fit Bottomed Girls recently, I asked if cigarettes had any place in healthy lifestyle. It came to mind when I learned that Gwyneth Paltrow allows herself one cigarette a week as a guilty pleasure. Not only does it boggle my mind how cigarettes go along with her otherwise healthy lifestyle, but it made [...]

10 Potty Training Tips: Because Someone Needs to Benefit from What I’ve Learned from This Dreadful Stage

Yesterday I promised potty training tips for other parents on the long road to dryness. It’s probably my least favorite part of the stage we’re in—worse even than tantrums. I thought I’d share my tips with you in hopes of making others’ potty training experiences just a little easier, even if that’s just reminding you [...]

Potty Training: The Least Fun You’ll Have as a Parent

So, potty training. Contrary to what you’ve probably been told, it’s not the most fun you’ve ever had as a parent. If you have a baby and think you’ve been fairly friendly with the movement of bowels and urine, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Nothing will get you up close and personal with poop and [...]

If Anyone Sees My Brain Laying Around…

Like many moms have discovered, there is such a thing as pregnancy brain. There is also such a thing as exhaustion brain (mom brain?), when your brain just can’t keep up with daily demands because you are getting no sleep. No, this isn’t yet another post complaining about being tired. I figure my son slept [...]

5 Tips for Managing Nightmares

As parents, we deal with lots of overnight fun. From wakeful nights to overnight tantrums to our kiddo’s nightmares, the wee hours can include lots of good times. With all of the scary ghosts and goblins that are out and about during the week of Halloween, we thought it would be a good idea to [...]

Accepting the State of Chaos

Before I had kids, I was fairly well organized. I mean, I’ve always been a master of collecting clutter, but the house wasn’t a total disaster, and I managed to keep up with laundry before it piled to the sky. I made to-do lists and actually crossed things off of them. But now? Well, I’ll [...]

How to Know When to Start Potty Training? This Book Will Help

Each new adventure you embark on as a parent lets you know in a hurry how clueless you are and how much you’re really learning on the job as you raise your kids. There is no manual for raising kids, but there are manuals for many steps along the way. And just like Elizabeth Pantley’s [...]

Mom Confessions: What Would You Add?

Those first few weeks as a new mom are such a blur. My friend Erika had a boy two weeks ago and today posted an update on Facebook. She had been about to brag about dominating her first trip out alone with the baby and then she looked down and saw that she had on [...]

Your Grass is Always Harder When You’re a Parent

This clip from The Office really cracked me up. We all think we have it harder than the next guy, don’t we? Whether you’re a parent of one, two, a dog or a sailboat, you’ll enjoy this one: Can’t see the video? Click here for a funny clip about the trials of parenting from The [...]

Tips for Surviving Two Kids Under Two!

I signed up for having two kids under two. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t terrified about the big day and how I’d manage to balance the very different needs of two kids. I’ve made it three months now, and we’ve long since gotten into a groove. It’s challenging, for sure, but I’ve learned how to [...]

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