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Top Ten Baby Names of 2014

Is your baby’s name on the list of the top baby names of 2014? It might be exciting to find out. The most popular names in a given year tell us a lot about popular culture at that time. It also can “date” a name to a certain decade when it first became popular. Baby Center puts together a list of the most popular boy’s names, and a list of the most popular girl’s names, every year. Sometimes, a name makes the list because a lot of parents were influenced by something in pop culture. Or, a name might be … Continue reading →

Baby Center’s 15 Best Baby Products of 2012

If you are in the process of planning your baby registry, you may want to take note that BabyCenter has released its list of the top fifteen baby products of 2012, as chosen by moms. Who better to offer real life feedback on what works (and doesn’t work) for babies and their parents, and, perhaps more importantly, why. Since parenting is such an individual thing, it only makes sense that there are many products out there to address the needs of different parents with different lifestyles. Of course, it makes it a little harder to pinpoint which products will work … Continue reading →

Are Two Naps for Baby Cramping Your Style?

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While to many people it might seem ideal to have your baby take two naps a day, it can also cramp you style a little bit. And, by style, I don’t mean your actual style, but I mean that it can make outside activities, playdates, errands, and chores a little bit difficult. I have said before that I love schedules. But, when babies take two naps a day, that makes the schedule very tight. You have a couple of hours to run errands or do outside activities in the morning, a couple in the afternoon, and then a few in … Continue reading →

Summer Reading Series: Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet

What do Three Billy Goats Gruff and Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet have in common? Believe it or not; an important lesson in parenting. Allow me to explain. A few months ago, my daughter’s second grade class decided to put on a play. Yup. Three Billy Goats Gruff. Tryouts were held and my seven-year-old did her best to score the part she had her heart set on: Baby Goat. Fortunately, I had enough time to emotionally prepare her in case she didn’t get the coveted role. “That’s okay, Mommy,” she reasoned “if I don’t get to be the Baby … Continue reading →

Lost and Found

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Part of what makes genealogy interesting are the heirlooms, photographs, and other artifacts that connect us to the ancestors who came before us. Gravestones can also bring connections. Sometimes, these important pieces become lost. It is fascinating when, years later, they are found and returned. Last year, I wrote about a story I’d read about in a newspaper. The gravestone of an infant had somehow become lost from the old cemetery that the baby was buried in. This story happened in Georgia, and had a happy ending. Someone found the gravestone and posted the information about it online. Eventually, the … Continue reading →

Summer Camp Quandary

How young is too young for sleepaway camp? For parents, not kids. I’m convinced that I could hit the big 8-0 and still worry about my kid being away from home. And by home, I mean me. Because hi, I am THAT Mom. Allow my baby to attend summer sleepaway camp? Never. Actually, I’ll probably give in when she turns 30… I mean 10. That’s considered the “age of reason” for most sleepaway camps in our neck of the woods. However, on the East Coast there are many summer camps that allow kids as young as 6 years old to … Continue reading →

Record-Breaking Baby Daddy

If guys could get pregnant, I’m pretty sure Desmond Hatchett wouldn’t be making headlines for fathering 30 children. And I’m not talking about Duggar-style procreating. The infamous sperm donor, whom Dr. Drew calls a “menace to society,” has 30 children by 11 different women. Hatchett briefly caught the eye of the media back in 2009 when his notorious spawning tally stood at 21 children. Now, the 33-year-old baby daddy is back in the news, and it’s not because he has since added nine more children to his brood. According to reports, Hatchett is begging the state of Tennessee to help … Continue reading →

Could Your Baby’s Identity Be Stolen?

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I was shocked when I heard a news story a while back about a girl going to get credit for the first time at 18 years old only to find out that her identity had been stolen when she was a baby. These people that had stolen her identity had racked up literally hundreds of thousands of debt on her social security number. If you think that there is no way this could happen to your child, think again. The truth is that your child’s identity is more likely to be stolen than your own. How do they do it? … Continue reading →

Returning to Work After Bringing Home Your Baby

After the birth of a new baby, home – based professional parents have quite a job to do. Whether they are welcoming their first child or a sibling, the first thing that they must do is get settled in to their new family structure and re – learn how to get through each day. Babies are small and cute, but they have big needs which can make for some very big changes in the way that a household runs from day to day. Once everything has settled down a bit, the thoughts of a home – based professional parent usually … Continue reading →

A Little Sleep Makes a Huge Difference

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It’s amazing the difference one bad night of sleep can have on my mommying skills versus a good one. The night before last was very very bad. Last night was a good, or I should say, typical night for me and my newborn. Did you know that the definition for “sleeping through the night” is actually 5 hours of consecutive sleep by a baby? Some parents fool themselves into thinking that a baby should be sleeping through the night when their other mommy friends brag about their super sleeping babies. But, we have to be careful to define what they … Continue reading →