Blog - Sleeping Should Be Easy

What to Do When Your 4 Month Old Baby Won’t Nap

Nov 28, 2022

Struggling when your 4 month old baby won't nap unless held? Learn how to get babies to sleep during the day for longer than 30 minutes! "What is up with these 30-minute naps?" I vented to my husband. We'd gone past the newborn stage, hoping for longer naps now that our 4 month old baby was a little older. Except the opposite was happening: now he was hardly napping, and his fussiness wasn't helping, either. At first, I thought he was the type of baby who didn't need as much sleep compared to other babies, except he'd be exhausted all day until the bedtime routine. He refused to nap each … [Read more...]

Looking for the Best Transition Sippy Cup? Start with These Options

Eating

Nov 26, 2022

Want to transition your baby from a bottle to a sippy, or from a sippy to a regular cup? Check out these options for the best transition sippy cup. From leaks and messes to your baby's outright rejection, it's not always easy to transition him into using a sippy cup. Maybe the one you tried keeps spilling, or he still prefers his bottle over the cup. Perhaps the valves make the liquid come out too fast, or he pushes the spout out of his mouth. It doesn't help when you're so over using bottles (and cleaning the zillion bottle parts) and want to make the switch. Or maybe you're looking … [Read more...]

9 Useful Techniques for Dealing with Anxiety in Children

Development

Nov 25, 2022

Worried about your anxious child? Learn useful techniques to ease anxiety in children you can apply immediately at home. Anxiety—everyone deals with it to varying degrees. But handling anxiety in children can be a challenge because they're still learning how to cope with difficult emotions. Symptoms of anxiety can happen at any time, but common culprits include a change of plans. Your child might throw a fit because you have to leave the playground sooner than expected. He might have an irrational fear, like of monsters or thunder. A new environment and meeting new people can also … [Read more...]

Raising Children on a Tight Budget

Money

Nov 24, 2022

What do you do when money is tight and you have a family? Get tips about raising children on a tight budget while still enjoying life. At one point, my family and I hadn't eaten at a restaurant in five months. We also only attended free outings, relied on the kids' imagination to squash their boredom, and slashed our grocery budget. This was hardly a picture of living below the poverty level, either (or anywhere near it). My husband and I had jobs, all sorts of insurance coverage, and a spacious apartment. We were a typical middle-income family and had too many comforts that passed as … [Read more...]

Children’s Books by Julia Donaldson

Children's Books

Nov 23, 2022

Heard of The Gruffalo or Stick Man? These are just some of the children's books by Julia Donaldson that your kids will love (including crafts!). Author Julia Donaldson entered our lives so gradually that I don't even remember the first book of hers we read. If I had to guess, it was either Room on a Broom or Where's My Mom? Only later did I realize that the books I happened to like were all written by the same person. Not that it's subtle. Axel Scheffler and Lydia Monks illustrate these books with the same style, and Donaldson has a signature cadence to her rhymes that's fun to read … [Read more...]

11 Ways to Cope with Newborn Sleep Deprivation

Newborn

Nov 22, 2022

Struggling with sleepless nights with your new baby? Discover 11 ways to cope with newborn sleep deprivation when you're beyond exhausted. Before having kids, my version of "sleep deprivation" and lack of sleep meant all-nighters in college or a restless night of tossing and turning. Still, I always had the option of sleeping in the next day, or at least, taking care of only myself. New parenthood, meanwhile, felt like a series of all-nighters, night after night, for months. Disrupted sleep became the norm. Sure, I'd sometimes clock in eight hours of sleep a day, but in patches at a … [Read more...]

What to Do about Your 4 Year Old Having Accidents During the Day

Potty Training

Nov 21, 2022

Is your child suddenly wetting their pants in the daytime? Learn what to do with your 4 year old having accidents during the day. He's too big to be having accidents, I thought. At 4 years old, my son had been potty trained for several months with hardly any mishaps. But we'd be at the playground or out running an errand when I'd catch the telltale signs of an accident on his pants. He'd even have daytime accidents at school. He wasn't peeing on purpose, but when I'd ask why he didn't tell me he had to use the potty, he'd say he didn't know. He was wetting his pants so suddenly … [Read more...]

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