Category: Parenting
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What Developmental Milestones Should I Expect to See During Baby’s First Year
Milestones are guidelines that doctors and health care providers use to determine if your child has a developmental delay or has a potential disability. Remember that all babies develop and grow at different rates. Many parents are guilty of comparing their child to another child that is around the same age and they begin thinking…
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What are Infant Developmental Milestones and Are They Important?
Many parents often wonder if their child is behind, on schedule, or ahead for their age of development. Milestones were created to be used as a guide for parents and health care professionals to determine if a child needs additional help to meet delayed milestones and use them to determine if a child has a…
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Learn the Importance of Monitoring Your Child’s Internet and Social Media Activities
If you children are using the Internet it is important as a parent to keep them as safe as possible. There are many dangers on the Internet that most kids don’t understand or care to understand because they are naive. They think that everyone on the Internet is who they say that they are and don’t…
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What to Expect When Your Baby is Teething? {Guest Post}
Teething is a notoriously tricky time for young children and can be of a nightmare for parents. It usually begins at around the age of 6 months when the front teeth start to erupt, but this can vary significantly. Some children do not develop any teeth until after their first birthday. This natural stage of…
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Create a Well Disciplined Child From the Start
A mother begins a connection with her baby, while he or she is in the womb. Any mother who has had a child can explain, that carrying a child is an amazing feeling. Those first few kicks, jabs, punches, to getting hiccups several times a day, and those nights where you can’t get comfortable. Once…
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Learn Why Books Are Important for Your Baby’s Development
Babies begin to hear your voice around 16 after they are conceived. So they begin learning how to listen while inside of the womb. As, your babies hearing develops they will begin hearing other sounds besides their mommy’s voice and can even recognize those sounds once he or she is born. A baby is similar…
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How Does Media Affect the Way Our Children Think?
I did an experiment once when I was in college. Well, it was both an experiment and an attempt to better myself by limiting the type of media that I watched and listened to. For two entire months I did not watch a single TV show or movie. I avoided media such as video games…
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What Type of Car Seat Do I Need?
In order to take your baby home from the hospital, you have to have a car seat. A car seat will keep your baby safe and secure while in the car and protect them from injuries if you are involved in a car accident. There are several different types of car seats on the market…
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How to Make Transitioning Your Baby Into Their Own Room Easier
Many parents work very hard to decorate a nursery for their baby; however, most parents will tell you that their child didn’t sleep in his or her own room for the first few weeks. During those first few weeks most parents choose to keep the baby in their room so that they can easily check…
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Tummy Time Can Prevent Your Newborn from Developing Plagiocephaly
The “Back to Sleep” campaign was introduced in the early 1990’s to help prevent babies from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). When a baby is born their heads are still soft and their skull will slowly harden over the next few months. However, laying your baby in the same position all the time places gentle…