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Easy Baby Diaper Cake Instructions

Diaper cakes consist of diapers, baby clothes and other baby items being creatively put together to resemble a traditional tiered cake. This style of cake is fairly easy to make and allows plenty of room to adapt to any theme or color scheme. Make a diaper cake to serve as a baby shower centerpiece and gift for the mom-to-be or as a “welcome home baby” gift. The new parents will likely enjoy the beauty of the diaper cake as well as all of the little gifts you can include as “ingredients.”

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Child Potty Training Problems

Learning to use the potty is a complicated process. Children have to be physically and emotionally ready to use the potty, be willing to use the potty and be in a stable environment that fosters the independence required to potty train successfully. During potty training, it’s not uncommon for parents to run into problems. While these problems can cause minor setbacks in the potty training process, most are fairly easy to overcome.

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How to Massage Arms

Our arms work hard and often get little appreciation for their effort. They lift and carry heavy loads, then hold steady as we type, work, paint, or just carry on an animated conversation. If you want to give a loved one a special treat, an arm massage is a great idea — and fairly easy to perform. Plan to spend about 10 minutes on each arm.

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Avoiding Stretch Marks When Pregnant

When you’re pregnant, your body is stretched to its limits—literally. At some point during those crazy, blissful, agonizing, and exciting 40 weeks, many women get the dreaded stretch marks. Appearing mostly on the belly–yet also breasts, hips, buttocks, and thighs–they’re fairly easy to discern: harmless streaks of red, thin, glossy skin, with a different texture than normal skin. While there’s no sure-fire way to avoid stretch marks completely, there are ways to minimize them.

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5 Ways To Teach Your Kids To Be Thankful This Thanksgiving

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. – CiceroGratitude – or a lack thereof – is something all parents encounter during the process of raising children. At some point or other, what mother hasn’t looked on with horror as her child blurted out a variant of, I dont like this! Its not what I wanted for my birthday! or worried that her kids took …