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7 Reasons Parenting a Toddler is an Exercise in Insanity
Jerry Seinfeld once said that “a two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” And that phrase is permanently etched into my mind. Have truer words ever been spoken about toddlers? Because he’s right, of course. We all have to be slightly mad to get through the…
Pearls of Wisdom For New Moms
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” – Meryl Streep Moms worry too much. And new moms worry even more because everything is new – even your body is taking new turns, with or without your permission.
How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
Eight Ways to Keep the Sizzle in Your Relationship
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. – Swedish Proverb Love, sex and housework. How do these three things fit together? Apparently pretty well. Several recent studies show that couples who share household and child-rearing chores have more sex. In fact, the more shared housework the more sexual frequency. Its not a matter of bribery or reward, but of how much energy each partner has at the end of the …
Help! My Sleepless Toddler Is Breaking Me!
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. – Ralph Waldo EmersonI thought I had it down. Both my babies had been such perfect textbook sleepers, Harvey Karp would have been proud. Swaddle and soothe worked like a charm, as if Sleeping Beauty herself watched over their dreams.But now its payback. My children have become insomniac toddlers. Relentless. Or as my pediatrician calls it …