After Babyhood, I Thought I Knew It All I used to think the baby phase was hard. Sleepless nights, constant feedings, and diaper blowouts seemed like the pinnacle of parenting challenges. Then my toddler came along and taught me a whole new level of chaos. Suddenly, I was looking back at those newborn days like …
Two hit us hard. The moment my child turned two, I knew we were in for it. Not only did her temper tantrums get a whole lot worse, but she quit eating variety and became quite the picky eater. She went from being a happy baby willing to try anything to slowly but surely only …
After baby “hood”, I thought nothing could be harder. I had no idea that a toddler would make me look back on that first year and think no, that was the easy part. That was Parenting 101. My toddler gave me a run for my money. I was in way over my head. I felt …
Parenting a toddler is not for the faint of heart, they’ll push you to your limits at one minute, then make your heart melt the next. One thing we can all agree on is the need to take a few minutes every now on then to escape from the insanity of it all and have …
In our household, using time outs for our toddlers became an effective and important tool for correcting behavior. I thought after the sleepless baby nights, the hardest phase of parenting was over. I was very wrong, because you see I hadn’t met my toddler yet. My toddler melts my heart while moments later knows how …
After having a baby I really thought nothing could be harder than those sleepless nights. I was wrong because I hadn’t met my toddler yet. I love my toddler to pieces. My toddler is my world, and I could never imagine it any other way. However, that being said, my toddler has brought me to …
There should be a long section in the parenting handbook (that never came with my baby) on why won’t my toddler eat? In our household, outside of dealing with sleepless nights, getting our toddlers to eat was the biggest battle! Nothing is worse than continuously trying to make food for a toddler when you know …
As a first-time mom, the idea of potty training my toddler scared me to no end. If done incorrectly, I imagined pee and poop gracing every inch of the house and the hours I would spend cleaning the carpets. Once I finally reached my breaking point of trying to tackle a toddler for diaper changes, …
My first child talked early and was speaking in sentences in no time at all. Speech came to her effortlessly and I never gave a thought as to how to help baby talk. I never gave baby language development a second thought until my second child came along. My second child didn’t have more than …
At the moment, I have an almost 4-year-old and an almost 2-year-old. They are adorable, funny and loving. They are also a lot of work. I absolutely cannot get enough of them and yet at the same time, no one can infuriate me or push my buttons as well as them. It is a very …
