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Adventures In Potty Training
This past Presidents’ Day weekend, my husband and I spent the entire weekend potty training our 2½-year old son, The Littlest E. It’s a rite of passage for every child and parent. For a while our son had showed signs he was interested in going potty in his little potty and it had become part of his post bath routine. My husband and I talked about it and figured we’d give it an official try. …
Talking To The Pillow
With the Christmas holiday behind us, it’s time to write about a lively topic for parents of toddlers – tantrums. I’m not sure how many of you experienced your child having a holiday meltdown or tantrum. As my son, The Littlest E, gets more into being 2, he’s stepped up the feet stomping, especially when he isn’t allowed to watch something with Daddy on the iPad or look at pictures on Mommy’s iPhone, doesn’t get…
First Night Away: German Christmas Markets
For our first overnight outing, we took our seven week old daughter, Peanut, to the Christmas market in Aachen, Germany. We always said that we are not going to be the parents that bend to our daughter’s every need, but who a re we kidding? We chose Aachen because it is the closest Christmas market to the Dutch border. Instead of taking a day trip by train to the markets like half of The Netherlands…
Indoor Play Spaces: Little Gems For A Rainy Or Hot Day
My son, The Littlest E, and I recently spent part of a rainy day at an indoor play space to get out of the house and do something different. I have to admit when I first heard about indoor play spaces for young children, I was a bit biased against the idea. I have no logical explanation as to why, except possible snobbery with anything trendy (Twilight and Harry Potter being my exceptions). Over the…
My 21st Century Child
Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, technology was pretty cool (or so we thought). In the ’70s cassettes and VHS became popular, along with arcade and video games. Remember when the video game Pong was a big deal? Yes, I’m dating myself. HBO was born in the ’70s. Wow, a premium cable channel. MTV came along in the ’80s, and they actually played music! Walkman, boom boxes and computers became more commonplace. I went…
Bright Spots Amongst The Clouds!
Amidst all the clouds, rain, and storms in my life over the past several months there have been bright spots. Bright spots I have failed to share with you because I couldn’t see through the nasty stuff swirling around me. I admit, it was challenging for me to feel grateful about any good thing that happened because it felt like the walls were tumbling down. As a mother, I realized I wasn’t setting a very…
Jagabrielle Littlegirl Jones – The Crossword Puzzle Of Naming My Child
I once believed that naming my kid would be some simple exercise of logic, reduction, lotteries, and coin flips. Of course the process of naming my kid has been an exercise of combining names, creative addition and subtraction, and pure hilarity. Naming your child is as much an exercise of respecting your elders, creativity, puzzle making, as it is a social analysis of your psyche. Studies have shown that names say as much about the…
There’s No Excuse For Disrespecting A Child
It takes a lot to get me upset. The other day I witnessed something that riled me. I was at the store running an errand while my son, The Littlest E, was in preschool. I was in the check out line and had the unfortunate luck to be privy to a mom/grandmother (who was behind me in line) demeaning her children/grandchildren. Now, I don’t know what preceded this and, obviously, I don’t know their family…
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