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Why the glue-eating kid in the back of the class needs help (blogs.babycenter.com)One of those kids was diagnosed with autism this week, and as the mom was grappling with it, another mom with an autistic child piped up to say that what she really wanted to say was congratulations.
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Confessions of a pregnancy nerd (blogs.babycenter.com)Pregnancy was so much harder the first time around. Every twinge was a cause for concern, every decision a chance to obsess.
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My kid hates water, unless there’s sugar in it (blogs.babycenter.com)I’m constantly on my daughter’s case for not drinking enough water.
“It doesn’t taste good,” she whines.
“It’s delicious,” I say. “Anyhow, it’s not supposed to taste good. It’s supposed to be wet.”
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Big-Hearted Boy Sells His Toys to Help His Out-of-Work Dad (www.parentdish.com)After Tom McGuire, an unemployed contractor, had a serious discussion with his 11-year-old son Zach about the financial difficulties the family was enduring, the young boy thought about what he could do to help. His valuable asset? His toy collection. So, the Toledo, OH tween put up a big "Toy Sale" sign at the end of his driveway and set up a table in his front yard, displaying his toys available for purchase.
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Bilingual Babies? (janiceloke.wordpress.com)The best time to learn a foreign language between birth and age 7. Missed that window? New research is showing just how children’s brains can become bilingual so easily, findings that scientists hope eventually could help the rest of us learn a new language a bit easier.
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Babies and baths: A Rocky Relationship (www.babble.com)I don't generally give advice on this blog. I like to think of myself as a friend and fellow-traveler to anyone who reads here, not some kind of big sister or "expert." But just this once, I want to send out a word of advice / reassurance to any parents out there with children younger than mine, who have reached the ripe old age of two and a half. And it is this: There may well be phases in your child or children's development when, for absolutely no reason fathomable to you, they suddenly HATE taking baths; when they will scream and flail and resist with vehemence your attempts to get them into the tub and to wash their bodies and/or hair.
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Nudity - Boundaries for Babies? (www.parentdish.com)For most adults, home is the one place where you can let it all hang out, within reason. Young kids, who don't pay attention to social norms, or completely disregard them, have a different set of clothing-optional standards. So, at what point is it appropriate for parents to set some ground rules about nudity?
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8.Toy story (www.boston.com)
I’m thinking of starting a company that sells lint. Lint, dust balls, and small pieces of string. It would have a name designed to attract well-meaning new parents, like “Crawling Companions’’ or “Motor Skills Mates.’’ Or something with the word “Genius’’ in it.
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9.Life Beyond Baby (community.thebump.com)
Ever hear a new mom say, “I could just stare at my baby all day long”? I can relate. My baby’s pretty darn cute, that’s for sure. But after, oh, 3 months or so of staring into his big brown eyes, I have started to seek out some other activities. I mean, there’s only so much cooing a mom can do before she needs some real conversation, you know?
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10.Why Milestones Don't Matter (community.thebump.com)
Have I mentioned that my baby is the smartest, strongest, most advanced baby in the entire WORLD? He’s barely 4 mos. old and he’s practically crawling already! Oh, I didn’t tell you? Just as well. When I had my first baby, I quickly learned that no one outside the family is impressed by your baby’s milestones.
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So long, farewell, don't let the door hit you on the way out you little plastic tools of evil (www.mom-101.com)Saturday night I decided it was time. I told Sage that it was the right moment to give her binkies up for some babies who need them. She wasn't biting.
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Still Here, Still Pregnant! (crunchycarpets.com)Practically JUMPING up and down to shake her out. Granted due date isn’t till next week….but am SO done. Between WEEKS of “false labour” and the panic from the midwives about her being breech, the lack of sleep, heartburn, etc etc….I AM SO DONE.
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13.The Pendulum Swings (babymakingmachine.blogspot.com)
Wednesday--Nearly halfway through my trip I was ecstatic...Thrilled... I had NEVER been so happy to go to the dentist for that second opinion and whatever drilling and pain medication I'd need done before attempting to procreate. I was ready! The essentials of my Baby Bucket List were complete and there was only one thing holding me back.
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My Baby Was Choking! (www.momaroo.com)We went to my husband's great aunt's house in Oklahoma for a fish fry. Jacey was eating some of the food then getting up and running around. (I'm not sure what she was eating exactly. Her Poppa was the one feeding her.) We obviously don't have a high chair there for her. She got up ran down the hall way then came back to me coughing up a storm.
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Who’s That With Baby at the Y? Why, It’s Daddy! (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)The classes were originally called “Mommy and Baby.” Then men started showing up one by one, infants in tow. A few months ago, the fathers had become so numerous that the Prospect Park Y.M.C.A. on Ninth Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, changed the class name to “Parent and Baby.”
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17.Women and Aging: New Pressures Each Day (ohsheglows.com)
I am 39 and a mom of 3. Most people don’t think I’m that old because I am healthy and fit and pretty thin. However, I still struggle with feeling happy at my weight - more now than when I was younger. I used to not think about my weight and now focus on it a lot. I used to look at MUCH younger girls and want their slim legs, waists, arms, but I’ve finally realized that I am supposed to look like a woman at nearly 40, NOT a little girl anymore!
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Nowhere to Run to, Baby: Moms' Social/Mobile Web Use Up by 400% (www.readwriteweb.com)The days of moms covertly stalking their children on MySpace or freaking out over Facebook party pics are not-so-slowly shifting to headier days of proactive moms using the Internet to meet their own needs.
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Anyone Need a Snakey Thing? (mamakatslosinit.blogspot.com)When I told my Mom we were having a garage sale on Sunday she smiled in that sweet, knowing way that mother's smile when they know something sucks, but they know you're going to do it anyways because you need to experience it sucking firsthand.
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20.The Best of Both Worlds - My Quest to Find It (babymakingmachine.blogspot.com)
I'm not sure what's gotten into me. I've gone from the young, ambitious woman, ready to climb to the top of the journalism world--Maybe have a couple of kids at some point. To definitely having kids, still being a reporter powerhouse. To wanting my first kid sooner than I thought--I'll squeeze it into my career plans. To having a kid and adorable family is my first priority and hoping my fantastic career will fall into place.
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21.And just like that I locked my baby in the car. (www.adventuresinbabywearing.com)
Ka-thunk.
That's the sound the door made as it closed and locked Ivy in the car, sleeping soundly in her carseat. My purse and keys and iPhone right next to her.
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The Going Rate of Baby Teeth (www.momlogic.com)Thanks to a face-plant in our cul-de-sac last week (bike accident) and near constant wiggling, my six-year-old daughter recently lost her first tooth.
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All Lost in the Big Box Toy Store (www.halushki.com)Since there is already enough dishonesty and subterfuge in the world, I’m going to cut to the chase here like a good 3-minute punk rock song.
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24.hey, teacher! (badmommymoments.wordpress.com)
Some women find so much extra “umph” inside of them that they volunteer for the tough stuff first. Like leading the actual camp activities, or wrangling the kids that attend. They do this. On purpose. Nurseries are set up to care for their babies so that these leaders can be involved.
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Art Therapy (knittermama.blogspot.com)The recent and upcoming transitions that our whole family has undergone (a move across the country and back again, a new baby, some family strife, etc...) have taken their toll on the whole family and, most noticeably, on our daughter. She has recently begun experiencing tremendous rage and it has been manifesting itself in some pretty problematic ways.
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