Father & Son [Pictures]

Feed My Son Proper Food

Too often fatigue and lack of time conspire to ruin my son’s diets. He mostly eats well, but I would like to replace the nights in which He eats buttered noodles and graham crackers with a more nutritious and balanced meal. What I’m going to do is, at the beginning of every week, plan for our “tired” day, and prep a meal. Then, when I am to the point where I’d feed my son toothpaste for dinner, I can make sure he has a good meal that requires the same energy to prepare as a not-so-good meal.

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” ~Newt Gingrich

HELP!: Screaming Toddler

No one likes to hear anyone screaming, now imagine having to hear a screaming baby everyday… this isnt any ordinary scream, this IS a piercing scream!!

my son’s always had a piercing scream and has used it more often when he’s excited whilst playing around but untill recently and by recently i mean 4/5 weeks his began to cry about every little thing, stuff he never cried about before, his sock not being pulled up properly will cause ear piercing screaming and crying, someone touching his toys at the wrong time will cause the same effect and so will any other .

EarlyRider Classic Vs. Ridgeback Scoot

Pedal-free design means your little one  becomes familiar with the idea of cycling,  focusing on  getting the
balance right first and adding the pedals later.allowing  rapid progression to cycling without stabilisers.

Runners also known as Balance Bikes,  Pedal free bikes, Pedalless Bikes or Walking Bikes… (click for bike details, pictures and alternatives)

Cute Or Bad Parenting? Kids Grinding at a Party

…Whilst the adults just watch & record the event!

I Am Your Child!

I am a child of divorce. My parent`s divorce became finalized in 1969 when I was six years old. My mother was granted sole custody and my father never fought it.

I am writing this because I wish to see change. Change in a system that helped to alter my relationship with my father for the duration of our lives. Our lives, he being 600 miles away at 52 years old, seem all too short.

We started out fairly normal. I remember watching a football game with him, smelling my mom`s pot roast in the air, being carried around on his shoulders, waiting for him to come home from work. A father-daughter relationship firmly rooted for growth.

Night Terrors & Bad Dreams (Toddlers/Kids/Children)

Just a few minutes ago i witnessed Lewis having what at first i thought was a a really bad dream. i google “bad dreams in kids” (or something like that) to find the cause of bad dreams out of curiousity.

After reading one or two search results i found out that what he had infact had was a Night Terror not a really really bad dream…

A Night Terror is where a child wakes up screaming with her eyes wide open, when in actual fact s/he is still asleep. The child will suddenly sit up, usually sweating profusely, shout out loud for a few seconds, before lying back down and returning to a normal sleep.

My Potty Book For Boys [Book Review]

It was the first potty training book that read.  Lewis had just turned 2 at the time. Borrowed from our local library we’d gone there specifically looking ofr a potty training  book after being adviced to read one by a friend who i’d shared my concerned about a previous unsuccessfully attempt at potty training.

Healthy Varied Diet: not so hard after all

untill recently well, not so recently about a year ago when  i became the main carer of son i didnt know what a healthy diet was. i was going through the masses of paper work in my room when i came across some of the hand outs given to me in a Health and Nutrition class i took a few months ago.

for more nutrition information… tips, myths, recipes, labels and more i highly recomend the Food Standards Agency website.
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eatwellplate/

find hundreds of recipes on the bbc recipes website. click here.

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Parenting Skills: Learnt OR Instinct?

Parenting… everyone’s got their own definition to it.

when i took over the care of my son a year ago the fear of failing him as a parent kicked in, i was so scared of not doing it right the first time round and turning out like my parents. for many years i’d promised myself to be a better parent than mine were to me.