Tag Archives: under 5s
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How To Get Your Kids To Sleep In Their Own Beds In Four Easy Steps
Posted on October 22, 2014 by Darcy in Busy Parents, Crib Notes.I woke up at six o’clock this morning, and my husband was not in my bed. I checked the bathroom, and he was not there. I glanced into the living room – not there either. He wasn’t rummaging through the kitchen for an early morning snack. His running shoes were in our front hallway, so he […]
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Mother, Interrupted
Posted on June 17, 2014 by Darcy in Crib Notes, Parenting.My children are psychic. And by psychic, I mean that they have the uncanny ability to sense when something is going on that doesn’t involve them, and a specific knack for interruption that is driven entirely by a fear of missing out (FOMO, for the uninitiated). It’s like my children are already teenagers that are […]
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I Have A Favorite Child. Admit It, So Do You…
Posted on June 3, 2014 by Darcy in Crib Notes, Parenting.Growing up, my brothers shared a room and slept in a bunk bed until they were around 10 years old. At night, my father would tuck them into their bunks, and before leaving the room would say repeatedly, “I love YOU the best!” while he pointed at both the brother on the top bunk and the brother on the […]
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Things I Swore I’d Never Do, Before I Became A Parent
Posted on September 29, 2013 by Darcy in Crib Notes, Parenting.Remember what life was like before you had kids? I’m not talking about when you routinely slept in on the weekends, or you spontaneously decided to see a movie on a weeknight. We all remember those days fondly. Sigh. I am talking about how you viewed other people with children. If you were anything like […]
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Help! My Kids Are Stuck on Band-Aids
Posted on September 18, 2013 by Noa in Contributor, Crib Notes, Parenting.Our latest Cribsters Contributor, Janine of Confessions of a Mommyaholic, shares her struggles as the mother of two children with a severe band-aid addiction. Janine was a certified professional teacher, who now happens to be a wife and mother, and is currently a stay at home mom to her two beautiful, yet energetic little girls. […]
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Pre-Conceived Notions of Parenting
Posted on September 2, 2013 by Stephens Family Daycare in Contributor, Crib Notes, Parenting.We are delighted to welcome Heather of The Healthy Hen to our Cribsters Contributor series. Heather is a Mama Hen to three little chicks and a wife to the one and only Mr. Rooster. She has always been interested in health, nutrition and fitness, so much so that she studied it in college and earned […]
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Teaching Your Children to Deal With Frustration
Posted on August 8, 2013 by Stephens Family Daycare in Contributor, Crib Notes, Nursery School.We would like to give a warm welcome to our second Cribsters Contributor, Stacy! Stacy is a mama of one energetic 2-year-old girl and is a director/teacher at her own in-home preschool, First Pages Preschool. She spends her days up to her elbows in blocks and dishes and preschool love. Her free time is spent […]
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“Mommy, Do You Want to Make Out With Me?”
Posted on August 6, 2013 by Darcy in Crib Notes.Last year I was driving my car with my son in his carseat in the back. He dropped a toy he was playing with on the floor, and I heard from the back, “Oh Fudge.” “Only he didn’t say “Fudge.” He said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the “F-dash-dash-dash” word!”. […]
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned From My Kindergartner
Posted on July 28, 2013 by Stephens Family Daycare in Contributor, Crib Notes.We are so excited to be kicking off our Cribsters Contributor series with a special guest post from Huffington Post blogger Amy. Amy and her husband made two kids, a four-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy. Amy has been featured on BlogHer, Aiming Low, Mamapedia, Scary Mommy, and Bonbon Break, and is a contributor to […]
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