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Hand-Painted Nursery Ideas

If you want the baby’s nursery to be more than a cookie-cutter compilation of the latest offerings on the store shelves, the best solution is to pick up a paintbrush. Your own hand-painted nursery designs can embellish anything and everything from the walls to the bedside lamp. You don’t have to be an interior designer or master painter to turn a bland bedroom into the nursery of your dreams – all it takes is a little understanding of color theory and some basic know-how on paint techniques. Choose Your Colors

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How to Create a Schedule for Toddlers

When you envision a schedule, you may have a picture in your mind of setting times for activities. While this may work for school children, or in a work environment, it will not work for toddlers. Creating a schedule for these increasingly independent children is more about creating structure and stability than it is about the clock. The only part of the child’s schedule which should have a consistent time is bedtime. Toddlers are not tiny robots, and if you try to force them into a too regimented schedule, they will either act out or shut down on you. Opt for a gentle but firm approach to creating a safe and predictable routine for a toddler, with room for spontaneity.

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Modern Baby Room Ideas

There are a bevy of options for parents when it comes to decor for baby rooms. The modern look of clean, simple lines or abstracted geometric shapes and patterns is increasingly popular and accessible, thanks to lines of modular furniture and accessories by Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel and Ikea. Remember the essential ingredient in any modern room is to have adequate storage for organizing and hiding clutter.