Today my youngest got to spend the day with me, he started running a low grade fever last night and acted like he didn’t feel very good.  I decided that is was best to keep him home from daycare so that he could get some extra rest while I monitored his fever.  It was nice [...]

• 05, 14, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   6 Comments.

Do you remember playing Ring Around the Rosie as a child?  I do!  I remember playing this game when I was fairly young.  When my son came home from daycare a few days ago saying “posies, posies” while grabbing his older brother’s hand.  I was trying to figure out what he was talking about.  My [...]

• 05, 08, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   5 Comments.

Do you want your child to be polite in public?  Do you want them to say “please” and “thank you” when they are offered things?  If so, it is important that you begin teaching your child how to have appropriate manners early on.  In fact, the earlier you begin teaching your child the better off [...]

• 05, 07, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, The First Year, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   3 Comments.

I moved from Texas to North Carolina, when my daughter was almost 5 months old.  It took us about a month to get settled into our new home.  After we got settle it was time to begin determining what the next step was to correct my daughter’s hearing loss.  Being new to the area, I [...]

• 05, 02, 2013
• /  Category Blogs From Mom, Parenting, The First Year, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   6 Comments.

Yesterday when I went to pick up my son from daycare, he was playing and having a great time.  The teacher was letting all of the kids in his classroom play with puzzles and my son was trying very hard to get the puzzle pieces into the right spot.  It was fun to watch him [...]

• 04, 24, 2013
• /  Category Infant, Parenting, The First Year, Toddler, Toddler, Toys & Games
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   1 Comment.

A few weeks ago, I decided that it was time to let my son pick out a potty seat.  We choose to get a potty seat that easily fits on the regular toilet, so that I wouldn’t have to retrain him to use the big potty once he had potty training down.  Besides that the [...]

• 04, 18, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   3 Comments.

If you don’t like using time out to discipline your toddler or young child, there are other forms of discipline that may work better for you and your family or you can use a combination of discipline methods.  Remember that each child responds differently to discipline methods.  One child may respond to a variety of discipline methods, while another [...]

• 04, 03, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   1 Comment.

My son stayed home with me again today so that he could continue to heal and so that I could make sure that he was fever free before sending him back to daycare.  He acts like he is feeling much better today and his fever finally broke last night.  Thank goodness, I don’t like it [...]

• 04, 02, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   8 Comments.

My son was still running a fever all day yesterday so I decided to schedule him an appointment to go see the doctor.  We got to the doctor’s office and my son was talking up a storm and seemed happy.  He wasn’t acting sick at all and I was worried that the doctor wouldn’t find [...]

• 03, 29, 2013
• /  Category The First Year, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   No Comments.

Yesterday I didn’t get the opportunity to write a new blog post.  My baby normally goes to daycare during the day because it is hard for me to care for him by myself due to my current medical problems.  Tuesday late afternoon I got the dreaded call from the daycare that my baby boy was [...]

• 03, 28, 2013
• /  Category Parenting, Toddler, Young Children
• /  Posted By Christy
• /   11 Comments.