How often do you eat together as a family? For those of us with young ones, eating with our kids is most likely a necessity rather than an ideal. After all, babies and toddlers still require a bit of supervision while eating, never mind that they still can’t fetch their own food from the fridge [...]
Tag: baby food
How many times have you been frustrated with your kid and said to yourself, “If only he was a little older”? I remember wondering during the early days just when exactly this parenting thing gets easier. “Three months—that’s when they’re finished with the fourth trimester,” I often heard. “Life starts to feel normal again at [...]
Two years ago when my toddler was entering his fourth month, I offered him his first solid foods. (I was secretly hoping eating solid food would help him sleep longer. It didn’t.) My husband and I tend to cook meals at home, so making our own baby food wasn’t too much of a stretch. So [...]
I buy Pampers instead of generic, shop at a farmers market, and buy new toys for my toddler. Despite all that, I still claim to be a frugal mom. How? By choosing to spend on what’s important to my family while aggressively cutting back on what’s not. Take diapers, for instance. We tried several brands [...]
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When you’ve got to be home for bath time by 7pm, you’re better off setting that Valentine’s dinner reservation a wee bit on the early side. And that’s what we did: on the weekend, we headed to his grandma’s house so that she could watch him while we had an early dinner date at 4:30pm. [...]
For all the love he has for food and eating, LO isn’t one to grab the fork and spoon and insist on feeding himself. Even as a little baby, he didn’t take to eating with his hands until much later and preferred being spoon-fed. Now we try to get him to eat on his own [...]
I’m no expert on picky eating, but I would guess that half of what makes a picky eater is their personality. Some people are born with more adventurous tastebuds while others stick to the tried and true. In that case, perhaps the other half of what makes a picky eater (or the opposite, a not-so-picky [...]
There was an article on CNN about the rising costs of raising a child from birth to 18 years old. I wanted to see how I compare to the national averages, and here is what I discovered (remember this is over 18 years, not yearly; I just averaged mine out): Clothing National average: $13,200 Ours:$2,925 [...]
