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  • Ways I was Playful Today

    1- I put on some music on the TV (cable channels that just play music- no video) and danced around with the kids. 2- Filled up bathtub with bubbles and showed toddler how to blow bubbles using a straw. (This… Continue reading

  • Sleeping Like a Baby

    Dear Daughter, You are eight days from being ten months old. I get asked all the time “How does she sleep?” and I smile and say that you sleep exactly as you should, which means that you rouse easily and… Continue reading

  • Goal Charts

    My six year old son and I sat down to make him a goal chart. When we finished I opened up another file and started to type. My son read over my shoulder as I went. “What are you doing,… Continue reading

  • Do Not Interrupt.

    “Isaac!” I called from downstairs. He did not come. I went upstairs expecting to find him in his grandmother’s room watching cartoons on her computer again. He was not there. I walked into his room and found him using the… Continue reading

  • “No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers” Review and Give-Away

    Elizabeth Pantley sent me a copy of the “No Cry Sleep Solution” for toddlers and preschoolers for review and give-away on Nurshable. Way back when I only had one child, I owned a copy of this book that eventually got… Continue reading

  • “Too Old” to Breastfeed (from the archives)

    (From the old Custom Made Milk blog) I don’t know why it comes up so frequently.. Maybe because it seems like an easy conversation topic. Afterall, who WOULDN’T agree that nursing a 7 or 8 year old is “too old”?… Continue reading

  • The Calm Place

    Dear Kids, There is a place that I take each of you frequently. A quiet place. A calm place. A place where time has no meaning. It is a place that I carry you to when you are infants, that… Continue reading

  • Time to Memorize You

    Dear Daughter, Nine and a half months have passed since I first held you in my arms and touched each tiny feature of the little face I had wondered about for the nine months that you grew into existence. Bedtime… Continue reading

  • Let The Seeds of Your Heart Grow

    Dear Kids, I used to get caught up in sadness for all the things that weren’t, whether or not I truly wanted them. Sports I could have tried playing as a kid, a Bat Mitzvah like my Jewish childhood friend,… Continue reading

  • There Is No Book About You.

    Dear Eldest, When you were an infant I read books on ways to try and get you to sleep better, longer, and more. All of the ideas seemed sound. And none of them worked. They failed. Miserably. Then when you… Continue reading