Archive for January, 2009

How To Create a Bedtime Routine

Pleasant bedtime routines ease the bedtime routine by helping children feel more secure and comfortable about what they can expect at the end of every day. To create a bedtime routine that works for your toddler and that will serve him and you for years to come, put together a predictable sequence of events that [...]

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

The Nesting Instinct

Around the fifth month of pregnancy, the “nesting” instinct can set in. This is an uncontrollable urge to clean one’s house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.
Nesting brings about some unique and seemingly irrational behaviours [...]

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Baby Shower Etiquette

OK so we’ve all attending a few too many baby showers where there is always the “crazy” aunt, sister, friend, etc in attendance. She goes a little over board with the spiked punch and eventually finds herself crying in a corner or lashing out at the mommy-to-be. How can this horrendous behavior be [...]

Friday, January 30th, 2009