by Shadra Bruce | Family, Making Memories, On Motherhood
Halloween is different for us now that we have three grown kids and two teenagers. Our kids, with pressure from us, stopped trick-or-treating around age 13. But Halloween is really for moms anyway, at least when the kids are really young. There are a few years where...
by Kira Hazledine | Healthy Eating, Raising Healthy Kids, Toddlers
Getting Real with Kira Hazledine Given my previously mentioned tendency to make claims about a child that I hadn’t met, I think this is also why I clung harshly to a single rule. Every parent has their vice, that one standard that they said they would NEVER do and,...
by Kira Hazledine | Parenting, Pregnancy and Your Newborn, Raising Healthy Kids, Toddlers
As a new player in this game we call parenting, I have done some stereotypical first-time mom things. Not that I feel bad about any of that, because my daughter did not pop out of the birth canal with a manual in hand. Sure, there’s a ton of parenting advice but it’s...
by Kira Hazledine | Toddlers
Hallie’s teeth came in late according to standards. While she began teething at 2 months, nothing appeared until she was about 8 months old. Now that she is into toddlerhood, the molars are appearing, and it is horrendous. A monster has replaced my child, and I would...
by Megan Gregory | Kid Safety, Toddlers
Getting Real with Megan Gregory I never had pink eye growing up, and I had truly been convinced the only way to contract it was by getting feces in your eye. Yes, up until my mid-20s, I honestly believed you needed to get feces into your eye in order to get pink eye....