Kid Scoop
With parenting everything can seem like a battle with our kids. What time they should go to bed, what time they should wake up, no candy after 5pm, no playing outside when it’s raining — and many more ways we can argue with our kids.
Sometimes, it get to be too much and we want to give our kids and ourselves a bit of a break. We avert our eyes, pretend we didn’t hear what just was said or ignore a rule that is usually standing in our house. It’s the little moments, where the fight is not in us and there will be no harm in the long run.
I’ve certainly had moments like that — where cereal for dinner is what is wanted by the kids and so much easier for me. Or nights where I pretend I don’t know they are still awake and playing at 10pm, knowing they don’t have school the next day and it’s no big deal. We all have moments like that & earlier we asked you guys what the naughtiest thing you’ve let your kid get away with.
Click through to see how Babble readers finished the sentence: “The naughtiest thing I’ve ever let my kid get away with is ____”:
My husband and I are approaching our 8th wedding anniversary — also, in just a few weeks it will be the 13th anniversary of our first date together. Way to make me feel old, right?
We have been through a lot — college, marriage and three kids and as we all know, marriage is hard. When you become parents the focus can often times waver from our relationship and focus more on raising the children and their needs. If you don’t pay attention, before you realize it you will find ourself so distant from your partner.
We don’t want that to happen in our marriage — I am sure you don’t either. So, why not make romance a priority? It’s easy to get wrapped up in the mundane everyday things, but these simple 10 ideas can help keep your romance alive.
Click though to read 10 ways to keep the romance alive with your partner:
My kids don’t have food allergies. I do have a child who has an intolerance and another child who has celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder), so when it comes to food safety and our kids, I can understand.
Raru goes to school with a totally gluten-filled school. Lunches all around her, craft projects with gluten, field trips and parents bringing in gluten-filled snacks. I have to advocate hard for her to ensure she is safe while at school and it’s stressful for both of us.
My kids school is, however a “nut-free” school and while many of you may assume that it’s an inconvenience to make a lunch for my kids that is now gluten free and nut-free when she LOVES her peanut butter, I am thankful it’s nut free.
I can put myself in the shoes of those parents who have kids with severe, immediate-reaction allergies. My daughters celiac disease is serious, she will be sick for weeks from a small cross-contamination and every reaction increases her chances for more trouble down the road. However, when I send her to school I don’t have to fear that I will be called to go to the emergency room due to a reaction that could kill her. I am glad our school takes those allergies seriously and helps protect the children — giving them a safe school to attend and some piece of mind for the parents.
There are many who don’t agree with nut-free schools — those parents I can bet don’t have to worry about their children when it comes to food. They may not understand the differences between a true allergy and a sensitivity and perhaps downplay the seriousness of it all. They likely can’t step outside themselves for a moment and put themselves in the shoes of that parent who does have to worry.
Click through to read the phrases you should never say to the parent of kids with food-related issues:
One of my kids managed to get gum stuck in their hair.
And it wasn’t even the four-year-old, which would have kind of make sense. They’re famous for being kinda spacey and not very smart in a worldly sense, so getting gum stuck in their hair isn’t that hard of a thing to imagine. It was the 7-year-old, who, really, should be considered old enough to be able to eat gum without it ending up in his hair, but apparently I overestimated his abilities.
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I am a mom and I blog about my life, including my children, who are front and center of my life. I’ve written about the parenting challenges that I’ve faced, some of the funny and adorable things they’ve done and the passage of time.
It’s the stuff of parenthood and I’ve enjoyed doing it for nearly five years.
For five years during which daughter became a teenager. And hinted that she didn’t want me to blog about her.
One thing I’ve discovered as Anders grows and matures is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to impress him. As a baby all it took to send him into a fit of giggles was a fake sneeze or a raspberry on his tummy.
These days I could bring in a marching band with baton twirlers and a dozen acrobats and parade them through our home, turning flips with drums booming and I would be lucky if he lifted his eyes long enough to roll them at me. It is an unfortunate reality for every parent that our cool factor declines as our children’s age increases and it appears I will not be an exception to this rule.
That’s why, when I find something special — an inside joke, a shared interest, or a ritual between just us two — I milk it for all it is worth. In my case, I mean this literally. Continue reading »
One of the more fun things about life and living is all the different people we get to talk to. Listening to stories from other families and parents we get a glimpse into what makes them work as a family, what makes them tick as a couple and how that influences their parenting decisions.
That is what we get from all these great blogs on Babble — written from real people, with real opinions, living a real life. Not just generic advice and words from ‘experts’, but we get to share the different lifestyles that we all lead with our different backgrounds and situations.
I was criticised yesterday on another blog I write on for Babble, which is nothing new and I am pretty used to it — the fun of having different perspectives. What I wasn’t prepared for was being called all sorts of names and receiving many non-respectful comments regarding a parenting decision my husband and I make for our children (which wasn’t even the topic of the post). I responded in a follow-up post that I was shocked for the comments and made a remark that was obviously opinion-based and then was taken to task for that as well and accused of being judgemental.
That got me thinking — when did having a respectfully-voiced opinion become just as bad as calling someone negative names and accusing them of putting their children in harms way?
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