Posts by sageowl

Been there.    Do you have a fairly tall babe?  That could be a contributing factor.   My son was off the growth charts in height and weight for the first 12 months.  He's still very tall, but he did...

Transitions are typically hard on kids anyway (home-school and school-home being notorious), and tend to generate a lot of this kind of behavior.  Like the other poster said, it's worth it to spend a little time reconnecting...

I have this problem too sometimes.  It's pretty annoying.  I definitely can't talk on the phone while DS is conscious unless I lock myself in the bathroom, for real...It's a rare day I can use the computer for any length of...

I had a friend who was involved with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and the kids she was mentoring were 14 and 15, respectively.  So that's strange...    

12...not a fun age.  I remember it well, and remember doing/saying the same things to my mother.  If it's any consolation, I also remember that it was almost instinctual, it would come flying out of my mouth, but I didn't...

I'm currently in the second trimester, so a lot of the time, I can still wear some of my regular clothes, except a lot of the pants are starting to be phased out.   I saved my maternity clothes from last time around, but a lot...

I've traveled with homemade baby food.  I don't remember having any trouble with thawing, but I stuck with "safe" items, so if they did thaw, they'd just go into the refrigerator on the other end, and no big...

"Gun play" seems to be an almost universal obsession with boys.  I don't think there's any point in trying to forbid it entirely, so you might accept that it will happen and will be alluring be to kids no matter how distasteful it...

My son got started pretty late too.  He wasn't interested in using either his potty, or the toilet until just recently.   *He does not care when his diaper is wet or poopy. (My son is the same way, so it's kind of...

I don't do a ton of gifts (because the grandparents tend to send so much stuff that I really don't need to add to that at all.  In fact, if I get too much stuff, I put some of it away and bring it out later in the year at random...