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How to Give Your Baby a Dropper of Medicine in 28 Easy Steps

It's a breeze and fun for everyone! Does your baby have a fever? How about obvious teething pain, or a nasty cough? What if I told you it could all be easily relieved with just a couple of milliliters of candy-flavored liquid? Sounds too good to be true, [...]

By | January 18th, 2016|1 Comment

The Breast Opinion: Public Breastfeeding

"Mammal (n): any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young." For some reason, something that is as natural and essential as can [...]

By | January 15th, 2016|24 Comments

Is your child getting enough sleep? Probably not.

A chart of sleep times is causing a lot of discussion among parents of youngsters. Check to see if your child is making the grade when it comes to sleep.

By | January 15th, 2016|2 Comments

‘Star Wars toy controversy’ : Where are the female heroes in games and books?

Rey, the most compelling of the new characters in the Star Wars series, is missing from store shelves among action figures and other toys. . If you bought the latest “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Monopoly game, you would discover that two critical male characters are featured as [...]

By | January 13th, 2016|4 Comments

The Darkness of New Motherhood

We got off to a rough start. I don't know why I expected it to be easy after everything we'd already been through. I had waited for him for 7 1/2 years; after multiple failed rounds of infertility treatments, a drastic lifestyle and health change to bring me to my [...]

By | January 11th, 2016|3 Comments

How to help your struggling middle school or high school student succeed

It’s been a full week since students returned from winter break. Gone are the mornings of sleeping past noon and (hopefully) staying up until the wee hours of the morning. The school schedule is back in full force, whether they like it or not. At this point, the year is almost half over, and students have just begun their second semester. If their first few months of school have been less than satisfactory, it’s not too late to offer a helping hand with organization and gaining control of their school work. Here are 6 ways to help your student if they’re struggling to make the grade.

By | January 11th, 2016|0 Comments

New App Claims To Decipher Your Baby’s Cry For You

There's an app for that! In this NBC Bay Area news clip, a new app is introduced that claims to be able to decipher the mysterious cries of your baby. Based on the studies of 200,000 crying babies, the app is able to tell you whether your baby [...]

By | January 7th, 2016|0 Comments

Single moms get the worst sleep of all

According to a study released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, single parents of kids under the age of 18 get the worst night’s sleep out of everyone. Topping that list at a whopping 44% are single moms. Making this study even more interesting is that among married parents, dads are the ones who get less sleep than moms do. Looking back to my single mom days, I can’t say that this study surprises me.

By | January 6th, 2016|0 Comments

Father upset over airport pat-down of 10-year-old daughter

Here's a link to a NBC San Diego report about a father who’s livid about how his 10-year-old daughter was subjected to an extensive pat-down search while going through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham International Airport on New Year’s Day. Apparently she was singled out after [...]

By | January 6th, 2016|23 Comments

Parenthood Has Turned Me Into A Sap

Just hand me a bucket. Yesterday, while puttering around the house putting away the last of the Christmas decorations, my husband stuck our son in his Excersaucer and starting flipping around for something to watch, eventually settling on Pooh's Heffalump Movie as background entertainment. I know I've seen it in [...]

By | January 4th, 2016|3 Comments