Parenting
Mini-Holidays
Now that Labor Day is past in the United States, the kids are back in school. This is our first year with our daughter being full time in school, and it is giving us some restrictions we never had before: we have to plan our trips around the school schedule. The possibility of week-long vacations [...]
Kid-Friendly Headphones
My daughter is old enough to understand personal electronics. For a ski trip we took in January, we rented a minivan, and it had a built-in video player. Seeing how well my daughter did on the long car trip watching movies made us think about giving her a birthday present of a personal DVD player [...]
Having A Child’s Party That Is Fun But Doesn’t Break The Bank
My neighbors throw elaborate, expensive birthday parties for their children. The guest list is usually large, and includes siblings of anyone the child has every played with. This leaves the hostess with thirty children ranging in age from infant to 12. Entertainment usually consists of hired performers, a rented “jumping” house or the local traveling [...]
Making a Boo Boo Bunny
Nothing is more traumatic to little children than bumps and bruises. My daughter loves comfort articles and snuggle time when she’s got boo-boos. When the injury requires ice, though, I had trouble getting her to use a standard ice pack. My mother gave me a boo-boo bunny, and I have never had trouble getting my [...]
K9 Internet Protection
It was early morning, and I was on my way out the door to work. I remembered I had promised to find a recipe for banana bread I had made…a recipe I pulled off the internet. So I sat down at my computer and typed “banana bread” into the search, forgetting to put the quotes [...]
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