Car Safety Tips for Long Road Trips with Infants

May 20, 2011
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Important Safety Tips for Car Travel with Small Children Once you bring your infant home from the hospital, you will likely want to show him off to all the relatives.  This means making the rounds between your husband’s family as well as your own.  But that can be one heck of a long road trip, [...]

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Kids and Pets: Teaching Responsibility through Care

May 14, 2011
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Teaching Children to Care for Their Pets There are all kinds of ways you could devise to teach your kids the essential life skill of responsibility.  You could make them clean their rooms, trust them to practice their instruments every day, or give them a patch in the garden to grow fruits, veggies, or flowers [...]

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Caring for your Baby’s Teeth

May 10, 2011

All parents want the best for their baby. This obviously includes your little one’s overall health and well-being, but the difference between maintaining the health of an adult and a baby can be vastly different. This can in turn make the prospect of parenthood for first time parents daunting, coupled with feelings of inadequacy at [...]

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The Best Baby Shower Games

May 5, 2011
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Great Games for Baby Showers One of the most difficult parts of planning a shower is picking the games.  Creating baby shower invitations is a lot of fun, as is selecting the menu and putting up decorations.  But when it comes time to address what you’ll be doing for the majority of the party, your [...]

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Sending Kids to College: Start Saving Early

May 4, 2011
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Why You Should Start Saving Early for Your Child’s College Education In this day and age, with competition high for just about every job, it is imperative for kids to obtain a college degree if they want to be able to get their foot in the door and find a job with which to support [...]

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The Importance of Clean Air in Your Nursery

April 26, 2011
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Clearing the Air in Your Baby’s Nursery Your baby’s health is of the utmost important, as any parent will tell you.  And you’ve probably made several changes throughout your house to prepare for the day that your newborn will arrive.  Bumpers now adorn every potentially unsafe surface, latches secure cabinet doors, and you’ve installed UV [...]

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The Importance of Baby Talk

April 22, 2011

From infancy to 3 years old, children learn more rapidly then they will for the rest of their lives. Language will be the single most important skill your baby adopts; it is naturally driven by their communication and survival instincts. Begin at The Beginning It starts in the womb. An unborn child’s heart rate will [...]

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What to Look for in a Car Seat

April 20, 2011
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How to Find the Right Car Seat for Your Child When the stork arrives on your doorstep (so to speak), you’re going to be facing a lot of lifestyle changes that you may not be prepared for, from sleeping in 2-hour segments to a refrigerator full of pre-loaded bottles to bumpers on every conceivable surface [...]

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Safety Tips for Driving with Kids

April 12, 2011
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Driving Safely with Children We all know the rules of the road, and although some of us bend them quite a bit (no blinker when changing lanes, illegal U-turns, talking on the phone without the use of a hands-free device, and so on) we tend to be extra careful when we have kids in the [...]

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Early Start: Healthy Diet and Exercise for Kids

March 22, 2011
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Teaching Your Kids to Eat Healthy and Exercise As adults, we often fall back into habits that we learned in childhood simply because they are familiar and comfortable.  Of course, we can work hard to overcome bad habits, but wouldn’t it be easier if we started out with good habits, especially when it comes to [...]

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