From age 2 to about 6, Youngest Son often suffered terrible nightmares as well as what’s become known as Night Terrors. Night Terrors are basically, according to my understanding, episodes of extreme fear and anxiety with no apparent cause and they happen, strangely enough :), in the middle of the night.
If your little one is [...]

I read a piece recently outlining a male approach to handling dirty nappies/diapers. The more I read, the more I saw myself in this. Here’s a preview…  
… Eventually, as you baby-sit more and more, the child will at one time or another emit an odoriferous cloud that will permeate the entire room. This is your [...]

I always salute a good idea or a person making us aware of something the mainstream media doesn’t. Here’s an encouragement to go read a couple o’ short posts with some useful information for parents on them. 

Repetitive dining injury (amongst other things, a great idea about how to get a night out when you have very young kids)
Plastic [...]

Well, the last of this short series anyway. I had some notes on helping kids sleep. We didn’t need them with the firstborn, and the ones I had didn’t work with the second.
Today’s search came up with the following links which contains broader and more comprehensive info which seems better than what I had at that time in [...]

A few more tips I found among my notes-on-scrap paper (terribly bad habit for a life coach, and that’s why I’m clearing the notes away, actioning them). Again, I’ve lost the author’s name, but I really liked the realism in these tips for men about to become parents…

You will make mistakes. It’s ok. Fortunately, kids are [...]

We’re moving house later this year and in preparation, I’ve been digging through old stuff, boxing things up and turfing (throwing away) things I don’t want any more.
Amongst the good stuff I uncovered (recovered?) was notes on parenting I’d taken from  other people’s writing some time ago. I’ve long since lost the details of who [...]