Most parents get into a food groove with their offspring — unlocking a few kid-approved meals and snacks that the little ones will eat without a fuss and zipping their way through the grocery store each week, grabbing the old standbys. We tell ourselves that our kids might not be expanding their palates by trying new foods, but at least there’s no harm in what they’re eating, right? Actually, maybe not so right....
Here’s a great basic timeline to follow to make sure your child’s birthday is one he/she will never forget — and that the party isn’t something that will put you over the edge. 2 months prior to your child’s birthday: Pick a party theme — This is a great place to start because it will then help you determine whether it’s best to have the party at your home or at some other location (where they clean up everything for you — total plus)....
More from CafeMom: 8 Beauty ‘Gimmicks’ That Actually Work The powder specifically has aluminum chloride hexahydrate, which is a category C medication. This means that while animal studies have indeed shown a risk to the fetus, there are no controlled studies of humans or animals available, according to the American Pregnancy Association. So as long as you’re not eating Jenner’s cosmetics (which doesn’t even have a ton of aluminum to begin with), you should be okay, Dr....
More from CafeMom: Mom Found ‘Decomposing’ Forgotten Bandages in Her Vagina 7 Weeks After Giving Birth The photos feature a mother and her toddler-aged son. In the first shot, she is simply holding the little boy in her arms. But in the second, she is actually breastfeeding him. Adaora Akubilo, the mother in the shoot, told the Chicago Tribune that she and her son were booked to model loungewear and that the breastfeeding moment was organically captured....
So when my kids get the sniffles, I tend to do just about anything to make sure they’re actually sick enough to stay home from school before I let them. Since I currently have one fifth-grader upstairs and in bed at this very moment, I’m wondering how many other moms try their darnedest to make sure their kids get out the door in the morning. It usually starts the night before, when I notice a bit of extra tiredness or a certain listlessness....
Unfortunately, Margaret “Peggy” Summers passed away in her hospital bed at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Indiana on Halloween. “I tried my best to beat this terrible disease but I guess God had other things for me to do,” Peggy wrote. “Please don’t be mad, bad things happen in life and we have to learn to deal with it no matter how much it hurts.” The letter went on, giving Hannah encouraging words for finishing school, fulfilling her dream of becoming a nurse, and being patient with her father....
“I have a formula: Your youngest [child] has to be 5 before there’s an expectation of travel. So everyone just has to come to you,” Hensley says at the beginning of the video. And, after watching the moms hilariously reenact the process of changing a diaper in a shoebox-sized, turbulent airplane bathroom, it’s hard to disagree. Check it out: Embedded content: https://www.facebook.com/awestruckTV/videos/1887349181540667/ More from CafeMom: 8 Universal Laws of Parenting That Are More Reliable Than Gravity In short, the moms say, just don’t fly with your kids until they’re old enough to not get “poop everywhere!...
And we have to say, there’s good reason that it’s made such an impression. Now they just need to make a followup video about their sons playing Rocket League.
So I think, “Meh, maybe I should tone it down.” But then I see that outside of my little mommy-bubble, the wider world still finds breastfeeding moms disgusting, weird, and even dumb. Seriously. So I’m sticking with my song, and it’s about to get loud. Social scientists have proven, in the past, that perceptions of women change when we become moms. For instance, mothers who work — especially ones who work because they have to, out of financial necessity — are judged more harshly, considered “bad moms,” than stay-at-home moms....
When our kids are small, it seems like nearly every visit to the pediatrician’s office involves a vaccination (much to your kid’s dismay). But as they get older, kids can sometimes go years without needing a needle — which could be why, according to a recent poll from the University of Michigan, many teenagers are missing important shots, because their parents incorrectly assume they’re done with vaccines altogether. The C....
The photos, taken by Dallas birth photographer Elaine Baca, show very pregnant mom-to-be Brittany Barton, her husband Jon, and their two oldest sons throwing, dancing in, and just generally living it up in the Texas mud. Not what you’d have in mind for your maternity session? Apparently it wasn’t what Brittany planned either, but as Baca told CafeMom, “In Waxahachie, Texas, when it rains it pours. In the weeks leading up to the maternity session, the rain was relentless....
When it’s just the family at home, most doors are open in my house. It doesn’t matter who is behind them or who is naked. My daughter has seen me naked. She has seen my husband naked. Hold on, before you freak out, let me explain! I wouldn’t call us nudists. For the most part, everyone in the house is wearing their clothes pretty much all the time. The most “undressed” we get on a regular basis is sitting in shorts and a tank top (for me) or just a pair of shorts (my husband) on a hot summer’s day....
When I finally decided to open up about my eating disorder with medical professionals, I was hoping for support and guidance — but that’s not what I got. It felt like things were going well. Surely, I thought, this would be the part where he’d recommend me a therapist and I would get the help I was asking for? He began to exclaim, “You wont be hungry for the rest of the day!...
As a mom, there are very few opportunities to look hot. We have the occasional date night or the night out with the girls. But even those are usually rushed and we’re rarely able to channel our old foxy selves. A few months ago, I was offered an opportunity to shake off the “mom” role and try something new. Since I’m always up for a challenge and thought it sounded like fun, I agreed to try a “boudoir photo shoot” courtesy of Focal Impulse Studio in Boston....
Here’s how it went down: “My son found an old bottle about 8 hours later under his bed and drank it,” says combster in Answers. “He’s been throwing up since, about once or twice an hour. Is this due to the bottle or just unlucky timing of having a stomach bug?” Should combster be concerned? Call her doc? What would you do if your child drank old or left-out-too-long milk?...
Choose a backpack with no name or initials only to keep your kid safe. Recently, I wanted to get my daughter a cute __tote bag customized with her nam__e and my mother looked at me like I was insane. A third-grade teacher for 35 years, she said, “You never put a kid’s name on their backpack or any place it’s visible to strangers.” Using a child’s name is one of the first and easiest ways for a bad person (kidnapper, pedophile, etc) to establish trust with your child....
Vanity Fair did a “73 Questions” video with the actress in her home Down Under and wow … All we can say now is that our lives will not be complete until we have a guest cottage of our own. And it needs to come with blue skies, loads of lavender, and chickens. Image via Vanity Fair More from The Stir: Michelle Williams’ Stunning Brooklyn Mansion Begs for a Makeover More from The Stir: Chrissy Teigen & John Legend’s Lavish Nolita Love Nest More from The Stir: Nicole Kidman’s ‘Vogue’ Cover Is Already Causing Controversy...
And believe me some of these styles are … well… interesting. We just have one question:
More from CafeMom: This Fed-Up Mom Used Her Kids’ Elf to ‘Cancel’ Christmas & People Are Pissed “Is It unreasonable to add a beautifully gift-wrapped potato [to their Christmas gifts] with a label that says, ‘This would have been another proper present from Santa had the behavior been better?’” she asked. More from CafeMom: Why This Mom Makes Her Kids ‘Practice’ Opening Their Christmas Gifts People on either side of the fence seemed to have very strong opinions on what is or is not appropriate when it comes to using Christmas as a disciplinary tactic....
Yup, like the beginning of the alphabet. “And pronounced” Ab-si-dee," she clarified. Although almost no one had heard the name before, many moms thought the name was either a joke or that the name was just plain terrible. And The Name Lady concludes that while Abcde tends to be popular in Hawaiian and Latino families, it may not be the best choice because no matter how much mom and dad like it, the name “sounds fake....
