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by Gloria Gamat on March 11, 2010
This morning, my first grader didn't want to get up at 6 am (his normal wake-up time on school days). That would have given him enough time at a normal pace (without rushing) to eat his breakfast,...
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by ruth on November 1, 2009
I know of some families whose family holiday traditions include having a picnic in front of the fireplace. Sharing a meal together, snuggling up together, perhaps reading a Christmas story until the k...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 18, 2009
As I have mentioned numerous times before, I may be a stay-at-home parent but I am by no means a domestic goddess. While I enjoy spending time with my kids, I can't exactly say the same regarding ...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 12, 2009
Now that summer is over, you'll probably need as much time on lawn care to keep that piece of green ready for the coming season change. It involves much more than just clearing the lawn of fallen ...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 10, 2009
Temperatures are starting to drop... and well, it's that time of the year when our warm homes become welcoming refuge for bugs, rodents and other pests.
For rodents, for example, there are many ...
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by Creative Weblogging on September 7, 2009
I'm a stay at home parent, but sadly, am no domestic diva. I love being able to stay at home and personally take care of my kids, but I am constantly looking for short cuts when it comes to house ...
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by Gloria Gamat on August 17, 2009
This past weekend, my son and I watched the movie Horton Hears A Who on cable TV.
We had a blast with the said movie and I highly recommend it as a family-entertainment-cum-bonding movie. The movie...
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by ruth on July 18, 2009
They say mothers have a third eye at the back of their heads and sees everything. Well, if that was true, then there shouldn't be so much accidents at home involving the kids, right?
What do you...
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by Michelle Donahue Hillison on August 28, 2008
Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,583 groups with 5,698,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stu...
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by Michelle Donahue Hillison on August 15, 2008
After years of the grubby fingers of children and their markers, food and mess coupled with three scratching and dirty dogs, our living room furniture finally gave up the fight and died. It had been...
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by Gloria Gamat on July 22, 2008
I'm 35 years old and I'm a single mother to a 5-year-7-month-old energetic boy. It has always been the two of us since he was conceived. That been said, let me just say that our relationship a...
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by Michelle Donahue Hillison on June 6, 2008
One of my favorite websites for inexpensive summer fun is orientaltrading.com. They sell all sorts of fun craft kits, ones for small and big kids (ok and adults who like to sneak in on the action to...
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by Michelle Donahue Hillison on May 5, 2008
Candy and Lou are a rather handy duo in our home. They arrived about three years ago and haven't stopped working yet.
Candeloos are safe, portable lamps - ones that are perfectly sized for sm...
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by Michelle Donahue Hillison on April 5, 2008
I thought I would introduce myself since I've joined the folks here in the parenting blog. My husband and I have one daughter, who is nine and in the third grade. We live in North Carolina, out in...
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by Melissa Petri on March 12, 2008
With two very active toddlers, I am positive that I will get an A in Childproofing Your Home 101. Apart from making sure that our new home will be child-friendly and relatively accident free, I am als...
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by Melissa Petri on March 6, 2008
Please excuse the unannounced hiatus. We moved from the city to the suburbs; and it took forever until we were able to get the service guy to install our tv/internet/phone connection.
Despite the fac...
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by Melissa Petri on November 24, 2007
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Most houses are creeping with hazardous items that exposes our kids to possible accidents. Eventhough parents try to make the house as baby-friendy as possible, especially when babies start cra...
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by Melissa Petri on November 7, 2007
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Lillebaby's Euro Tote is a multi-functional and fashionable baby carrier designed for kids between 0 and 3 years.
Good thing about the Eurotote:
1. You don't have to buy a separate f...
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by Melissa Petri on September 21, 2007
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My eldest son JP said goodbye to his pacifier when he was 2. My husband and I had no intentions of weaning him from his "Schnulli" until that weekend, when we couldn't find any o...
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by Melissa Petri on August 25, 2007
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You're lucky if your baby is not colicky. All parents go through the same experience, when our little princes and princesses just wouldn't stop crying. Despite endless feeding, cuddling...
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by Melissa Petri on August 22, 2007
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With the number of sexual predators lurking in chat rooms and the number of sites with adult content, my heart misses a beat (well, several beats) every time my son turns on the computer. Good ...
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by Melissa Petri on May 28, 2007
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Balancing work and family is not an easy task. Most women give up their careers so they can focus on being full-time mothers. However, the issue of finances cannot be taken for granted. With ju...
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by Melissa Petri on May 9, 2007
According to the research conducted by frederick Zimmerman of the University of Washington, 90 percent of children in the U.S. under the age of 2 and 40 percent of infants watch TV regularly. The stud...
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by Melissa Petri on February 16, 2007
With a demanding 5-month old to take care of during the day, I normally am not left with much time to make sure that everything is in order at home, every single day. If and when I do get the time to ...
