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I know there’s plenty of conversation and controversy over what kids should, how much they should eat, whether you should make them eat or not… We discuss it endlessly, from when to start babies on solid food to how many snacks a toddler should get to the factors of childhood obesity.
I think it comes down to a simple statement: continue reading…
Cape optional.
Habit and Routine make the daily things that need to be done automatic and easy. No more wearing your mental capacity out on a hundred mundane tasks and decisions. Form a habit, and line your habits up into a routine, and the daily needs are being taken care of on auto-pilot. You can compose poetry in your head while you go through the routine. Habits and routines give you the mental freedom to focus on the bigger decisions, the priorities, without neglecting the daily things that keep life in order. continue reading…
The elements of an orderly day are (in no particular order)…
1. A Plan
2. A Routine
3. A Limit (or lots of them, as the case may be)
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I’ve been a new Mom three times in the last 4 years, so I feel like I should know something about this. Actually, I thought that when my third baby was born it would be almost a non-event. “Oh, look, another one! He’s cute… well, throw him in crib…” Okay. I exaggerate. It was definitely an event, hours worth, with a 10 pound 10 ounce blue baby at the end of it. Blue, yes, because he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck twice. He has since recovered nicely and no longer looks like a Smurf. We are thankful, though we would love him anyway… continue reading…
It is 8:30 on a Saturday night and I am about to gorge myself on good chocolate and books. I am full of resolution. I am full of cheer. I am alone with the hot running water, in a cocoon the color of the shower curtain. My library loot is stacked beside me on the handmade, colored “Mara HEARTS Daddy” step stool. A pile of Ghirardellis on the ledge of the tub, next to my bottle of cold water.
Joe’s out snowboarding, the 3-under-3 are sleeping, and tonight I’m kicking it Mommy-style. Mommy after 3 days of no-routines, messy-house, movie-overload, good-times chaos. Mommy after 3 days of feeling slightly guilty that she has trouble going with the flow and that
she kind of resents the extra work that results from all this fun.
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