Posts by MammaV

Kids learn so much on their own. My oldest does need intervention, but my typical 5yo can do addition and subtraction in his head and I've never taught it to him. He likes to figure out how many more times he's run around the house or...

I'd just like to chime in that my soon to be 5yo son does not like to do anything structured for schooling. He's not interested in numbers, letters etc. He does love exercise, swordplay, imagining things, playing the old battleships,...

The Minnesota Zoo is fun, we live about 10 minutes from it and would love to meet up with you if you go. PM me. Como Zoo and Conservatory Mall of America Jackson Street Roundhouse St. Paul Children's Museum St. Paul Cathedral in...

My kids like Planets Distant Suns Compass Metronome Doodle Buddy Lightsaber - not educational, but the boys love it. fling free fuzzle lite snowman math audiobooks I just found a whole bunch of freebies when I plugged in my...

anti-nausea drugs are hit and miss. I don't have nausea and vomiting during labor and birth, but I do have hyperemesis during the beginning of my pregnancies. I've tried a bunch of different anti-nausea drugs with no relief at all. In...

I had one homebirth in an inflatable pool. DH started filling it with the correct temp until we ran out of water, then he added some hot as it had cooled down. We always turn our hot water as hot as it will go so that we get more bang...

I just had my 3rd homebirth/4th child a week ago. It was 44 minutes from start to finish. The midwife arrived just as the baby was crowning. DH was fabulous and caught the baby. There's no way I could have gotten into a car and...

My 8yo DD struggles as well. We had her tested for vision disorders and found she had four. We do vision therapy and have noticed marked improvement in just three months. She exhibited a lot of the same symptoms mentioned in the...

We struggled here too and found out that we were dealing with 4 vision disorders. We're doing vision therapy now and after just a couple of months have seen an improvement in reading as well as the ability to sound out/blend sounds and...

My DD Roo is 8 and speech delayed. She started speech therapy when she was four and at five went 5x a week at our early education center for 2 1/2 hours a day for speech therapy. She still goes to our public school 2x a week for speech...