Category: Child Development
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Taking Tots to the Theater
My husband and I took our three-year-old, three-feet-of-fun to the movies to see Kung Fu Panda on Friday. He loved it and sat enthralled the entire time from the previews to the end credits.…
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The Special Needs Child: Be The Wheel
Yesterday was going to be themed for nutrition, but due to circumstances, I missed posting. I apologize for that and today I’m going to focus on something totally different from what I originally meant…
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Birth Order and Sibling IQ
For years it’s been widely thought that genetics, not birth order determine IQ. However, a recent study in the journal Science (June 22) reports that first-born children are smarter than their younger siblings. The…
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Big Hands, I Know You’re the One
Does the fact the my two year old daughter goes around singing songs about masterbation make me a bad parent? I can’t believe I just opened up that can of worms. But I feel…
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Terrible Terrible Twoooooooooo
Oh. My. God. My daughter woke up this morning apparently possessed with satan himself. I don’t know what happened. She has been sick – and I thought that her nasty attitude was a symptom…
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First Day! First Day!
First grade for the littlest Donovan started today. He was nervous. I was nervous. Well, actually, we were both a perfect blend of nervous and excited as we drove in. His teacher is young…
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Beauty Queens, Princesses & Ponies
Little girls, little girls, little girls. I think I was less shocked when my son began proving the whole nature over nurture theory to me when he started being uber-boy than, now, seeing my daughter lassoing…
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Something In the Way She Poos
I am knee deep in other people’s poopy. Yesterday I wiped a total of three other being’s bottoms – both kids and the dog. Am I being too sharing??? Tough. The most alarming of…
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“I have no problem spanking you in front of all these people…”
This is what I actually said to my six year old son yesterday. It’s true. I never thought those words would come out of my mouth, but, I haven’t been able to stop saying…
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My Six-Year-Old Son Hates Change
Six year olds are peculiar little characters. Mine, in particular, has a strong tendency toward meltdowns if anything even remotely out of his routine is in engaged in. He avoids spotaneity as if it…