Posts by ThreeTwoFive

I count to 3 before I pick him up and put him in the seat (if it gets that far). Sometimes "Let's see if we can get buckled up and get the car moving before that family of 5 over there gets in their car!" will work.   Or,...

Of the ones we watch I would recommend Dora the Explorer and Wonderpets.  Try your local library. 

  I feel like whatever we do this year will be the standard of what we do every year after.   Also, we (me) are looking more forward to the decorating of the house and baking than gift giving and the...

I have a friend who taught first grade, and she said she taught the students "Don't yuck somebody else's yum."   I would tell the teacher and ask that, without singling your child out, he/she give the class some explicit...

I ripped mine out of the packaging on day 10 at 2 a.m. in a sleep-deprived haze, so kudos to you to making it to 7 weeks with your first! My DS dropped the paci around 4 months, sucked his thumb for a while, and then stopped that,...

I would let her decide.  Coming in and tucking them back in feels like a game to them.  She'll want you to do it every night 7 times a night.    If you really think she'll play in the middle of the night, you...

Can you take her outside if she screams?   I once put his high chair outside for the last 10 min of lunch (3 feet away from me, clearly visible through a glass patio door, and it was warm outside), and that made the point about...

I'm just going to give advice for the tooth brushing part.  Have you tried explaining why toothbrushing is important?  My DS would never let me brush his teeth around that age, so I googled "decayed baby teeth" and showed him...

Have you tried ditching the diapers?

I would recommend something like a Yamaha Clavinova.  They're full size keyboards and have a good feel to them.  And they never need to be tuned.  A free piano will have to be tuned after it's moved, and then regularly...