It’s not every single day, but very nearly, both of my boys take simultaneous naps in the afternoon. This event itself saves my every loving life. When OBrother was about 13 months old, the boys had gotten into this weird staggered nap schedule that was driving me bonkers – OBrother would go down morning-ish, then… Read more »
I am up to my eyeballs in preschooler boys around these parts, and sometimes it feels like the gift options out there are sparse: more duplos or maybe mega blocks. Determined not to wrap up more of the same, I have scoured the interwebs for creative, imaginative, and plain old fun gifts in a range… Read more »
In the last few weeks we have found a new way to get through to OBoy about bedtime and the rules thereof. The punishment route was just not working. He continued to get out of bed and break other rules around bedtime in the face of consequences. Then, we had a good night and I… Read more »
He had whined and demanded oatmeal the whole time we were getting dressed. I mostly ignored, reworded, and redirected. By the time we got downstairs I finally got a straight “May hab O-meal for brekist peeze?” out of him. (We’re working on manners and asking polite questions. I must say ” ‘I want’ is not… Read more »
