Enter your email address to receive our FREE weekly parenting newsletter
|
Aug
11
|
|||
 Aside from explaining about sex, death discussions are the most difficult to have with children, in my opinion. | |||
Archive for the ‘Younger Children’ Category
Blog Posts by Melissa A
|
Jul
27
|
|||
A few months ago, I had posted a blog about raising boys vs. raising girls. Then in February, I gave birth to a beautiful little girl. Naturally, I was surprised, as I hadn’t found out the gender and had prepared myself mentally for another boy. I cried out of surprise and happiness. Oddly enough, the first thing my husband and I both said was that we would get to use the name we loved so much. (We still weren’t committed to the boy name we had picked at that time.) | |||
|
Jul
13
|
|||
Should restaurants be allowed to ban kids? McDain’s, an “upscale casual” restaurant in the Pittsburgh area, is going to ban children under the age of 6 starting July 16th. Owner Mike Vuick, who built the restaurant next to his successful golf center, says that he’s doing it because customers have complained that children have been causing a ruckus. And “Parents have gradually diminished their cooperation.” | |||
|
Feb
18
|
|||
My boys are usually friendly and outgoing. E, who is 5 1/2, is the center of attention at his school and M (age 3) seems to have kids from his class recognizing him all over the place. When they have friends over, they are the ones running the show. They even say hi to strangers (if we deem them safe enough to talk to). Then they get invited to a birthday party. One of us attends the party with them and they end up clinging to our sides the entire time and crying when asked to participate in an activity. This has happened more than once. | |||
|
Feb
15
|
|||
Today I received a call from my daughter’s school counselor. She informed me that my daughter’s teachers had noticed this week that she was rocking in her chair, self-stimulating. I have to tell you I wasn’t really expecting this call, but that I wasn’t shocked either. It wasn’t the first time I have had this issue with her. My daughter is an amazing child, but every December before the holidays… that excitement combined with her energy always creates some type of challenge. Honestly though, I still I got off of the phone and cried. This is one of the hardest issues to deal with in school or to write in this blog, but I know it needs acknowledgement. | |||
|
Feb
03
|
|||
Now that I am embarking upon my fifth round of “terrible twos,” I think I’ve (finally) got it. Over the past couple of weeks, I have spent time with several two-year-olds and have observed the respective interactions with their parents, other children and related adults. Interestingly, there is a common complaint most first time (and second time) parents express when it comes to their two-year-old child. | |||
|
Jan
14
|
|||
When I was a kid, I took baths in my bathing suit because I didn’t like to be naked. If I fell and got cut, I hated having to wear band-aids and out of embarrassment would walk around stretching out my dress to cover the injured spot where the band-aid sat. I slept with the covers up to my chin because I was afraid vampires would come into my room at night and felt that was the only way to protect my neck. However, I found it amusing that my best friend hated ice cream. (She did, however, like the raisins that I gave her from my lunch every day at camp, until her mom clued in my mom.) | |||
|
Dec
22
|
|||
Lately we’ve been caught in the “bedtime blues” with our younger son M. I don’t remember a time when my older son E gave us trouble during bedtime. We had a routine, stuck with it and he knew that when it was time to settle down and go to sleep, that’s what he would do. He even transitioned really well into a toddler bed after being in his crib for 2 ½ years. We’d read a story, say bedtime prayers, and then it was time to go to bed. As he got bigger, he developed a ritual for how he would say goodnight to us. As long as we played by his “rules,” he go to sleep without a problem. | |||
