(Editor’s note: today’s guest post by Tania has some solid tips for parents who want their children to speak multiple languages. Thanks, Tania!) Lots of people are interested in raising multilingual children, for many great reasons. Speaking six languages myself, and four fluently, I know that being multilingual can come in pretty handy. Speaking several [...]

When I was at BlissDom this January I met Amy Wilson, the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer & Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be. Here’s Amy herself talking about the book: Amy was kind enough to give me a copy of the book to [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome Davian Masters with some important information for parents of newborn and infants. Thanks, Davian!) Baby car seats have been created and especially designed to increase the safety of the youngest travelers in a vehicle. According to some surveys, however, nearly 80 percent of all parents are using their car seat in [...]

Hulllo, Heroes! Funny story: the older boys got it into their heads that we should let them watch The Matrix movies. We saw episode one several weeks ago and episode two shortly thereafter. It took a while to get to episode 3, which we finally played tonight. At the end of all the excitement, The [...]

(Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is courtesy of Tim Dalton with some solid advice for adoptive parents. Thanks Tim!) Parenting is not the easiest of jobs in the world – the title of parent may come very easily, but doing the job is a lifelong struggle, one that is fraught with uphill climbs that never [...]

There are different kinds of trust that we offer our children over time. For example, there’s the trust that a child will do her chores responsibly, and trust that he won’t play with matches and set the house on fire. Now that the boys are older, we’re dealing with having to trust them to make [...]