Your medicine chest looks like a place where candies are stored to most kids. The fact that most medicines for kids taste pretty good also doesn’t help. This is why it is important to clean it out as often as possible and put harmful medications under lock and key if you can.  You should get [...]

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics kids don’t need extra vitamins. If you are feeding your little one a diet based on the Food Guide Pyramid then they should be getting all of the food that they need.  However sometimes you end up with a kid who is a picky eater (such as my [...]

Let’s face it. If you have had a kid you probably have stretch marks. These stretch marks occur when the skin is pulled to the extent that it loses its elasticity. This of course in inevitable after you have a baby.   The white marks are simply evidence of your skin cells trying to heal [...]

Even though most of you are thinking, “oh I don’t have the time to do something as ridiculous as grow sprouts” you need to know how it easy it is. In fact you could say it is as easy as growing grass.  It is so simple that a child could do it which is exactly [...]

Tis the season to throw baby showers.  This is the time of year when all of the babies that were conceived at New Year’s start arriving!  No baby shower is complete without a few pins. Here are a couple of classic ideas for baby shower games … they are suggested by Hope Mason who is [...]

Postpartum depression is sneaky. It occurs within minutes, days, weeks or months after childbirth. It is considered a major depressive episode and it is not something that is natural or that can be ignored. It is also not treated with vitamins as everybody’s favorite post partum expert Tom Cruise has suggested. It is just not [...]

Given the state of global warming and everything else it is probably a good idea to get your kids compositing. It is actually quite easy to get them to understand how the whole process work.  It is also a way of gently explaining the natural process of life, death and decay to them.  The best [...]