toddlers

Attitude and Toddler Mayhem

Today’s vlog isn’t about blogging and it’s dedicated to Nic thanks to her post about challenging behaviour. Nic has talked me off the parenting ledge several times actually. Which either makes her a genius or I’m very unstable. Possibly both. For anyone who feels like they might need a padded cell, or a screaming room [...]

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Preparing Your Toddler for a New Baby @ Kleenex Mums

I’m guest posting over at Kleenex Mums You can check out my tips for getting your toddler ready to welcome a new brother or sister here: Preparing Your Toddler for a New Baby.

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A Question of Tantrums

According to my host, there is only one question that I’ve been searched under this month: “is it wrong to discipline your kids why or why not. also what should you do when your child throws a fit? how do you solve the problem using love and logic” Given that I have written on Super [...]

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139/365 Obstacles

Sometimes the little munchkin likes to do things the hard way. She’s quite capable of climbing up these monkey bars using her feet. But apparently the challenge of shimmying up with a combination of pulling arms and pushing feet was far more entertaining. Even if it did erupt into a few frustrated huffs, puffs, stamping [...]

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Pre-Baby Jitters

It seems that my first baby is having some pre-baby jitters. Last night she woke up at about 9pm and came out into the lounge room. It rarely happens, but when it does she’s usually pretty easy to get back to sleep as long as she comes back to bed with us, which I don’t [...]

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Potty Training – The Beginning

Potty training. I’ve been dragging my feet on this one for some time. For a couple of reasons. The first being I knew it would take a whole lot of patience, consistency and persistence on my part that I wasn’t entirely sure I would be able to deliver on. And secondly, because Riley didn’t seem [...]

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Food for Little People

Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: Let’s Talk About Food This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about their struggles and successes with healthy eating. Please read to the end to find a [...]

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All Discipline is Ineffective

A recent study with the under 2 set has found that all discipline is equally ineffective. I’ve suspected this for some time, and this study seems to confirm it. Of course, the focus in this study was praise and distraction vs whatever method of discipline a family chose to use – so it isn’t a [...]

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The Push and Pull of Independence

‘I love you. I need you. Don’t touch me. Don’t help me. And please, don’t even look at me the wrong way’. That seems to be the message I’m getting from Miss Riley at the moment. She craves her independence with a fiery passion. And yet, at times she cannot bare to be separate, or [...]

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