Welcome to Day 3 of my little experiment to see if I can finally save $100 a month in diapers. After two years and 10 months of diapers I decided to try a little experiment to see if my little Sweetness, who was showing all the signs of readiness for potty training, would take the [...]
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It’s Day 2 of my Potty Training in Three Days or Less challenge. To catch up on the background of why on Earth I’d do this and read all about the first day, please click here. Go ahead, I”ll wait… Back? Ok. Just to prepare you, I have to say, after an encouraging end to [...]
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Sweetness is two months shy of her third birthday and the potty training issue has been driving us insane. For the past eight months she’s shown complete interest in sitting on the potty that lead to her using it once, then none, then interest again including the “big girl potty,” then complete lack of interest [...]
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Today is a big new first here at Heligirl. I’ve done a blog swap with Ericka from Alabaster Cow. Hop on over to check out my brutally honest post about the guardian angel who entered my life when I was a pathetically miserable “victim” of my circumstance and taught me a simple, yet infinitely valuable [...]
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Today I have the extreme pleasure of heading over for a Saturday Playdate at the Life of Rylie … and Bryce too! LeeAnn, Rylie and Bryce’s super mom, has been having one tough time when it comes to picking the kids up at daycare. Seems Rylie all but goes into hurricane mode when mom arrives, [...]
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If you’ve been reading Heligirl for any amount of time, you know I’m a huge believer in positive discipline and doing all I can to work with my kids rather than punish them when they misbehave. More often than not I feel like I’m stumbling in the dark and crashing into some rather fragile things. [...]
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Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles. We’re hitting that lovely stage here in Jen’s World where Sweetness is all about the boundary testing. If I haven’t said her name in a kind but firm tone at least 3,867 times in a day, I’ve just not done my job. She’s throwing blocks, kicking the dog, [...]
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Another installment in my Positive Discipline articles. I’m inspired by the iPhone app I recently got called Positive Discipline Cards, which helps me resolve problems by providing quick, simple positive discipline techniques at the push of a button. I’ve been playing with it a lot, and in many cases, putting it to work. In fact, [...]
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If you missed our free webinar by Positive Parenting Solutions last week titled Getting Kids to Listen without Nagging, Reminding or Yelling, you’re in luck. We had technical difficulties and rescheduled the webinar for not one, but two different times to meet everyone’s needs. Here is the latest information: Tuesday, Aug. 24 from 1-2 p.m. [...]
I typically have some pretty quick advice when it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, but when it comes to tweens and teens, my advice has to come from my studying and the advice of experts. I’m all about sharing personal experience here on Heligirl, so when Heather from Making it Work Mom commented on my [...]
When we empower our children, they develop the skills they need to have power over their own lives. In the short term empowerment plants the seeds for developing an “I can do it” attitude. In the long term, empowerment helps children become capable and develop high self esteem in their teen and adult lives. Teaching [...]
When I was growing up, the rules in our house were pretty similar to those in most households of the 70s and 80s: do something the parents don’t approve of, get punished. My brother and I were spanked with hands and wooden spoons. (In fact, I remember they even had a paddle in grade school [...]
I typically have some pretty quick advice when it comes to toddlers and preschoolers, but when it comes to tweens and teens, my advice has to come from my studying and the advice of experts. I’m all about sharing personal experience here on Heligirl, so when Heather from Making it Work Mom commented on my [...]
Today is a big new first here at Heligirl. I’ve done a blog swap with Ericka from Alabaster Cow. Hop on over to check out my brutally honest post about the guardian angel who entered my life when I was a pathetically miserable “victim” of my circumstance and taught me a simple, yet infinitely valuable [...]