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Wondering whether or not you should have kids?
Momlogic has you covered with this decision tree that walks you through all the important questions prospective parents face.
Like, “Are you grossed out by poo?” and “Do you like people barging in on you when you’re having sex?”
A new study just published by Today’s Parent says that sleep training methods work better if the parents using them have the right attitiude.
This is particularly true for the “controlled crying” method advocated by Ferber and a few other sleep experts. What Today’s Parent found was that parents who feel Ok about letting their kids cry get better results with these methods:
On average, those who believed their child would feel abandoned or get even more upset if they didn’t respond quickly reported less success with sleep training. Conversely, those who believed it was OK to let their child cry at night for sleep-training purposes, and who were able to resist their child’s nighttime demands, tended to be more successful.
Time is running short to get that perfect shot of your kids for the annual Christmas card, if you’re the sort of person who does such a thing — I am not. However, I do enjoy taking pictures of my kids in my own amateurish snapshotty way and I find getting a baby to both 1) hold still and b) look at the camera is an enormously ridiculous challenge.
Not sure how I feel about this solution from Shutterbuddy, though: Continue reading »
One of the bigger surprises to me when I was pregnant is how much parents-to-be are marketing targets. Somehow, magazines started arriving in our mailbox, along with ads and solictations for everything under the sun. And I thought it might dial down a little with the second baby (since I wasn’t registering or being given baby showers) but no.
So I liked this thing from Time’s Cheapskate blog about the most useless baby products. After all, what’s useful is going to vary enormously from family to family and baby to baby, but the useless stuff is pretty much a waste of money for everybody.
They looked for info from all of the funniest, snarkiest parenting blogs out there (including this one) and came up with their list. Here are some highlights:
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If you’re still looking for a graduation gift for what’s been coined the “Oh Sh%t” class of college graduates, look no further than Pat the Money, by Dianne Wachtell. Using the same pastel pink and Tiffany blue color scheme and baby-friendly flip and touch pages as the beloved Pat the Bunny, Wachtell has crafted the cleverest of picture book spoofs; your grads will laugh with terror and recognition. Oh, to go back to toddlerhood story time! Continue reading »
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Joslyn Gray 
Amber Doty 
Julianna Miner 
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Danielle Smith 
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Katherine Stone 
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