Archive for July, 2010

Identifying Plants with Young Children

July 22nd, 2010 by Dionna - 17 Comments

Today I would like to welcome Melodie who has written a guest post on identifying wild plants with young children. Melodie is a mental health professional turned work at home mom of two girls. She blogs at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! where she shares information on and her experiences with breastfeeding,…

Smoking v. Nursing in Public: The Law

July 21st, 2010 by Dionna - 6 Comments

Recently a DJ from an Orlando, FL radio station interviewed a midwife about nursing in public. The DJ would prefer that women not nurse in public, and his questions to the midwife were very anti-breastfeeding in nature. At one point he said something to the effect of, “well if women…

Behavioral Challenges Before Developmental Growth Spurts

July 20th, 2010 by Dionna - 14 Comments

I reached out to my local parenting group a few weeks ago, because I was at the end of my parenting rope with Kieran. He was demanding our attention every single second of the day, and when we had to do something else (cook, clean, pee), Kieran would get angry…

Comments About Kids’ Appearances

July 19th, 2010 by Dionna - 43 Comments

We cut Kieran’s hair last weekend. Kieran’s beautiful, long curls laid scattered around the stylist’s feet, but his eyes still lit up my heart when he peeked at me from the mirror. Kieran’s dishwater blond hair had never met a pair of scissors before last week, when I gave him…

Dice Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers

July 15th, 2010 by Dionna - 12 Comments

Kieran has been fascinated with dice since before he was two years old. He loves the combination of the sounds of clinking dice, the dots on them, and the colors (we have red, green, and white dice). I didn’t give him dice as an educational activity, but just for fun,…


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