So the start of the new year with goals and aspirations of losing weight and saving money has begun. We make all these changes for ourselves, and would love for changes to be with our family as well. With our kids growing and changing as they begin to develop as an intellectual, there are certain […]
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Learning your child.
Being apart of parenting groups ( and parenting books) are good ways to learn new skills and ideas and get moral support along the way. One of the greatest parenting skills is to be able to listen to the inner voice and translate love from words into thoughtful effective action. It’s about having patience with […]
My Piggy Back Parenting Style
I’ve been frustrated the past few days with my wife either working or being sick. I’m not frustrated about these particular two facts, but instead about my daughter not listening to me. Granted, she’s only two years old. I’m just beginning to understand that a 2-year-old doesn’t care about your feelings. I am noticing […]
Finding My Parenting Voice
As I wade deeper into being a parent, I feel like I’m in the middle of a learning curve. t’s like I’m “finding my voice.” At first, I was trying to follow what everyone else was doing. But nowadays, it’s more about me learning from my parenting experiences. It’s really been on ME to figure […]
My thinking as a parenting.
Lately my daughter has been all about my wife. “Mommy, mommy,” she cries. There hasn’t been much daddy anything around here lately. I ask for a hug. “NO!” she yells. “Do you want to come read a story with daddy?” I ask. “NO!” she yells. Of course, I feel terrible because I want my […]
From a Pet Fish to Flipped Lids
So we just got our daughter her first pet. It’s a betta white and purple fish that we named Rainbow. I am excited that my wife and I are teaching our daughter how life works through having a pet. We will feed the pet every other day and change the water weekly. Since my daughter […]
The Daily Epic Parenting Struggle Continues.
I’ve been getting my butt kicked while putting my daughter to bed. The other night, I had the ultimate struggle with whining on both sides. Her whining and struggling to listen to daddy, and daddy whining and asking, “Why won’t you lay down?” So often lately, I’ve been in a lot of WHY-don’t-you-just-listen-to-me situations. I […]
It’s time to let it go
Our daughter has started saying “I love you Daddy” and “I love you Mommy.” As you can imagine, it melts our hearts. It’s crazy how she has started to put words together in such a short time. I mean, I thought it was going to take longer for her vocabulary to come along. Nothing is […]
Counter-Will Begins
This is driving me crazy: My daughter wanting to lay the opposite way on her changing table! Maybe you don’t understand me. All this time, since she was born, I’ve changed her diapers on the changing table with her little legs facing my right. I’ve dried off her little body with our amazing handmade bath […]
My Toddler’s Mad at the World Sometimes
You ever get in that mode where you are just mad at the world? You know, angry, not wanting to talk to anyone, and unwilling to listen to what anyone has to say? Well, I am not sure if our little sweet angel of a daughter is mad at the world, but she’s been throwing […]
Let’s Talk about Parenting!
I think the way you figure out what to do in most life situations happens through experience. To get through life experiences, you really live those experiences. So I want to hear from you about your parenting experiences. I want to hear your questions that arise within these child raising moments. I actually have two […]
From a Pet Fish to Flipped Lids
So we just got our daughter her first pet. It’s a betta white and purple fish that we named Rainbow. I am excited that my wife and I are teaching our daughter how life works through having a pet. We will feed the pet every other day and change the water weekly. Since my daughter […]
The misbehaving child…Is it their fault?
Many of us think that we can make are children do whatever we need them to do, right? I mean not that it’s a bad thing but we would like them to listen to us. It starts with them eating what we put in front of them. Has anyone had their child be a picky […]
How can leave an impact on our children?
We always think about leaving an effective impact on the lives of our child. The pressure is real that we put on ourselves once we have children. It’s really about embracing the struggle of being a parent regardless what age your kids are at. I’ve always wondered if people worry about the ancestry of their […]
What the golden answer to this “parenting thing”?
I think just like anything that you go through in life, the way you get to know what to do in most situations, is by experiencing it. I am looking to you to help in letting me know what your parenting experience has been, and from that experience what questions do you have coming out […]
What was the discussion that you had with your children about the election?
–My Quick Thought– Regardless of your position on the election, it’s important to speak with your kids about the next four years. This is a topic that I even don’t know too much about but having children, I feel that we need to at least make an effort have a talk with them about what’s […]
The pressure of being a parent.
It’s really about finding our moment as a parent. What I mean by that is the moment that you felt you coming into your own as a parent. I think my moment came when I could finally swaddle my daughter. That night I comforted my daughter after a long cry. Not me crying. She was […]