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Helping Small Children with Transitions

by Maria

Helping Small Children with Transitions

Do you struggle with getting your kids to change activities? Here are some gentle ways you can help little kids with transitions! Let me be honest… I find the toddler years very challenging and draining – not just because I hit the ground running in the morning and don’t stop until my 2 girls (ages […]

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Gentle Parenting Books: 4 Amazing Books to Change your Parenting

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Best Parenting Books

Do you want to raise emotionally healthy kids and have great relationships with them? Check out these 4 easy-to-read gentle parenting books! As a mom of 2 little girls, I want to make sure I can be the best mom I can for them. Reading about another parent’s struggles and successes can be encouraging and […]

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Easy Steps to Elimination Communication

by Maria

Easy Steps to Elimination Communication

My husband is from India where there is a very relaxed approach to toileting and potty training in general.  Babies and infants are often naked (or mostly naked) since India is a very hot country.  You can often see naked babies in the rural areas.  One time we visited a house and the 2-year-old boy […]

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Fun, inexpensive toys for toddlers

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Fun, Inexpensive Toys for Toddlers

Young children do not really need any fancy toys.  All they really want is to learn and explore with anything they can get their hands on.   My 2.5-year-old daughter loves to do whatever I am doing (sewing on the machine, using kitchen tools, sweeping, typing on the computer…).  She would happily follow me around and […]

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Increase your child’s vocabulary

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Increase your child's vocabulary

I read once that you learn more in the first 5 years of life than you do at any other point.  Children are soaking up information and learning new things at a rapid rate (how to crawl, walk, talk, etc.)  They can absorb several languages at once during these years.  One thing that you can […]

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Easy Toddler Rainy Day Activities

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Easy Toddler Rainy Day Activities

Staying inside with a busy toddler on a rainy day can be, well, exhausting.  I think every mom has had those days where she is tired of trying to engage her little ones.  My daughter has loads of energy and it helps if we are able to go out and expend some of that energy […]

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Hot cocoa bar to start off Advent! 🍫 Hot cocoa bar to start off Advent! 🍫
“Mom, don’t clean that up! It’s our lab!” “Mom, don’t clean that up! It’s our lab!” 🔬👩‍🔬🧪
Learning about India by playing Snakes and Ladders Learning about India by playing Snakes and Ladders. 🇮🇳🐘🐅
Zoom cooking class. Making fruit salad. 👩‍🍳 🍉 🥄
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