Smart parenting solutions for the busy moms of active families.
I share parenting tips for moms, caregiving solutions, and mom hacks as well as personal parenting stories.
Raising happy, healthy children isn’t always easy. But I believe that when moms get together and pool their knowledge it helps the entire community get better.
There is nothing more heart wrenching than watching your young child wrestle with illness. This year’s flu is particularly horrid with a severe cough and fever that leaves even the youngest children and healthy adults bedridden. When it comes to life with sick kids all you want is to take away their pain and discomfort…
Being a parent is one of life’s greatest joys! However, when your little one is sick, it can make parenting a nightmare. It is hard watching your children suffer, when there is not a whole lot that you can do for them. Illnesses must run their course, but there are things that you can do…
Do you struggle with a baby that doesn’t seem to have any interest in nursing? Usually, the quick fix is bottle feeding. But when you introduce the bottle you soon find yourself wondering how to fix nipple confusion. What is nipple confusion? When my son was an infant he refused to eat (he still does…
It’s late at night and everyone is awake. Every so often the silence is punctuated with fits of coughing. We’ve all been here. As a parent of two, we’ve been through this scenario countless times. A good chunk of our visits to the pediatrician have been due to these night time coughing fits. As a…
Each fall, we deal with the same thing! One kid comes home from school or daycare with a cough and soon it gets passed around to every member of the household. It is always seems like the misery and coughing spells peak at night. No parent enjoys spending the whole night awake, seeing their children…