Welcome to the August edition of ‘Mixtape Monday’, our last-Monday-of-the month burst of inspiration. This month, Kathy, one half of Fat Mummas by way of Justine at Mixtape Zine, brings us a piece on the role of television in modern parenting. Read on…(You can read previous Mixtape Monday posts here.)……………………………………………………………………………………………………I’m not a regular Supernanny watcher, but I caught an episode the other day about a couple of working parents who were splitting their work hours so that they
The Chinese Lunar Calendar For Baby Gender Prediction
August 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
by Jerri Birthing The Chinese Lunar Calendar was discovered about 700 years ago, by a Chinese Scientist after years of research. Many in the far east put a lot of faith in it’s results, while the Western world tends to be skeptical. Regardless of whether you “believe” or not the calendar can be a lot of fun. In order to get accurate results using the Chinese gender predictor, you need to understand the differences between the Chinese Lunar Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar used here in the
Parenting Help – Fab 15 Blogs
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MomDot’s Fab 15 Blogs for Moms and Dads! – We’ve been featured among the “Fab Fifteen” blogs for moms and dads, so I wanted to shoot a quick thank you to super-cool bloggers at MomDot for including Dear Dr.MOZ! Their featured blogs include a fun collection of parenting blogs … Where is parentinghelpme? This does seem to be a good blog list and as a reader you can vote for us to be included. Leave a comment over there for Dr Moz to consider us for inclusion to his illustrious list. Helping par
Confessions of a Scrapbooker’s Husband
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August 29th, 2009 by E. Paul Whetten Goto commentsLeave a comment My sweet wife has an addiction to rubber stamps, paper cutouts, brads, hole punches, picture layouts, colored paper, ink, toner, ribbons, scissors and tape. All signs indicate that she has contracted that life-altering infection commonly known as “Scrapbookus Giganticus Obsessium” or “Recordum Lifeus Largo” Some of the more obvious signs of this addiction include a dizzying array of colored ink pads, enough paper to make the env
Working our PECS
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by Brian Frank Darius has some challenges with motor planning, i.e., the ability to forsee, plan out and execute a set of tasks like brushing his teeth. This makes some self-reliance tasks, like brushing his teeth, hard for him to learn to do in a consistent manner. That also makes getting him through some daily routines – like brushing his teeth! – very difficult for me. Difficult is an understatement; frustrating and exasperating would be more accurate. This is exacerbated by the fact th
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