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Home Management Tips for the Busy Mom

Achieve Zen at home and kick stress to the curb by following these simple home management tips.

Telling Your Kids About Your Pregnancy

Adding more children to a family is exciting, but your kids might feel otherwise. Follow these tips to decide when to tell them about your pregnancy.

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Trying to Conceive: Handling the Stress

For some of us, after spending many years and many dollars avoiding pregnancy, it can be a huge mental shift to be in the position of trying to get pregnant. For most women, getting pregnant will happen relatively quickly, but for others, month after month will bring yet another negative pregnancy test. As those months [...]

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Toys for your Tots: What’s Good and Appropriate?

If you walk into a big box toy store, the selection can be overwhelming. Aisle upon aisle of jabbering dolls, complicated action figures, electronic games… where to begin? How do we, as parents, choose quality toys for our kids? I’ve had my fair share of toy busts over the years. Just today I picked up [...]

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Teach Your Kids to Love Learning

These 6 tips will help you instill a lifelong love of learning in your kids.

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Coping with Miscarriage: The Emotional Consequences

Although pregnancy loss is a common event, it can nonetheless be personally devastating. A positive pregnancy test seems to promise that a baby will eventually enter our lives. When that baby fails to develop or dies in utero, our expectations and hopes are dashed. I lost twins a few years ago after undergoing treatment for [...]

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Parenting a Sensitive Child

Parenting a sensitive child comes with some unique challenges. Learn how to overcome them.

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The Benefits of Babywearing

Learn the practical and philosophical benefits to babywearing.

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5 Tips to Stay Fit During Pregnancy

I was in great shape all during my first pregnancy and in horrible shape for my second. And, it could be coincidence, but I felt great throughout my first pregnancy and horrible throughout the second. So, needless to say, I’m a believer in exercise during pregnancy (with the doc’s approval, of course!). Here are 5 [...]

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Raising Boys Vs. Girls

Raising boys or raising girls: which is harder? Is it different? Aside from the obvious, how fundamentally different are boys and girls? How does that affect our parenting? These are truly loaded, complex questions without easy answers. On one hand, most of us know that a lot of our ideas about gender are culturally constructed. [...]

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