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My Sleep Make Over
Sleep. We all want it. We all need it. And yet, most of us don’t get enough of it. We all know how important sleep is in our lives. We know what a precious commodity it is. We spend time worrying if...
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Desperate for Sleep
Yesterday morning I woke up to find the following e-mail in my inbox. Boy, did this sound familiar. All too familiar and I could easily relate to this mother writing to me at one o’clock in the...
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Beauty Sleep
Beauty sleep, apparently it’s no myth. I’m over at Our Mommyhood today, extolling the virtues of sleep. I know that we have all heard this before but for some reason, way too many of us fall short. I...
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Crazy and funny truths about sleep and children
It’s Friday, and I’m in a let’s lighten up and laugh at ourselves sort of mood. Besides, we’d never make it through this parenting gig if we couldn’t find the humor in some of the stuff that we go...
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Tips for a resistant sleeper
Got a resistant sleeper? You know the one. The one who pulls out every last bedtime stall technique and sweetly calls your name…repetitively at 3am…until you drag yourself into his room for a midnight...
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5 Ways to Help a Toddler in Distress
Toddlers certainly add excitement to our lives, don’t they? One minute they’re on top of the world singing and dancing across the living room. And the next, they’re a pile of tears on the kitchen...
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The Teen Connection: Helping Teens Safely Navigate Social Media
Teens are actively engaged in social media, social networking, and texting. We know this, not simply by looking at the stats, but by seeing them around us. In the office, at coffee shops, and in their...
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Tips for Soothing a Fussy Baby
Being a newborn can be hard work. Being a parent of a newborn can be even harder. It’s exactly like everyone told you it would be, except now you’re living it. It’s overwhelming. Exhausting. All...
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Like Yesterday
Just yesterday I was holding you on my hip. Swaying from side to side. A motion, it seems, gifted to all new mothers. As natural as breathing in and out. Or so it seems like yesterday. Wasn’t I just...
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Hand Foot Mouth Disease
Hand Foot Mouth Disease is running rampant right now. Storming through your local daycare, preschools, and mall playgrounds. It’s a virus (namely Coxsackie virus) that causes fever, malaise,...
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The Summer Slide?
So I have these books that I bought in preparation for summer. You know the ones. The ones to bridge your kids through summer onto the next grade. So their minds don’t turn to mush. So they don’t have...
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For a Healthy School Year, Focus on These
Photo credit: KISS Photography by MJ Summer, it seems, has passed by in a flash and here we are…back to school. The morning rush is on. Kids are scrambling out the door, forgetting lunch boxes and...
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Spanking: A Child’s Perspective
We were on vacation, walking along the pier, and I’m not quite sure how we landed on the topic but there we were; my 6 year old daughter and I, hand in hand, talking about spanking. She may have seen a...
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Does the flu vaccine give you the flu?
It’s a refrain I hear often this time of year. No, I won’t get the flu shot/vaccine. It gives me the flu. Or I’m worried about getting the flu vaccine. I heard it could give you the flu. I’d rather...
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