I didn’t go to school here and in many situations I don’t know the customs. This is my son’s first year of pre-school and I ask teachers and other moms too many questions.
This time I thought I ask you. I don’t know anything about preschoolers and Valentine. I see all these advertisements and kid’s programs that kids give each other cards. Do preschoolers exchange cards or gifts for Valentine in real life? And if they do, can it be to their best friend regardless of gender?

Silly questions ha? But I like to hear your ideas.

Until later,

Tags: cards, gifts, preschooler, toddler, valentine

Apparently, there was an episode of 20/20 featuring a mother breastfeeding her six years old daughter. I read a related article in here. The author of Family Health and Safety has a strong opinion on the support of extended breastfeeding and breastfeeding in general.

This is wonderful, and I’m all for breastfeeding. But I have to say the competition between mothers on breastfeeding is not healthy. I have to tell my story for those mothers who can’t breastfeed their kids and feel guilty.

When my son was born, he was healthy and they released us from hospital in normal time. We came home. My son was crying constantly and was constantly on my breast for one week until we went for his first checkup with our GP. I thought well this is having a baby, the last thing in my mind was that he may be hungry. The minute the doctor saw him, he noticed my son was yellow beyond normal and send us for blood work. We ended up in the emergency room, he had baby jaundice and his numbers were way above normal.

We spend almost five days in the hospital and he was under the light all the time. They weighed him before and after breastfeeding and noticed that I didn’t have enough production. The nurses told me that because of lack of production, my son couldn’t get enough liquid to be able to pass the extra iron in blood to prevent baby jaundice. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , baby, breastfeeding, mothers

My daughter turned two this week and we are having a kids party at a play center this weekend.

Choosing theme for girls is not that difficult. We are going with a Garden Fairy cake and matching plates, baloons, and table cloth. Thank god we are at the play center and there are people who will entertain these little 2 and 3 years olds. Otherwise I would be in big trouble entertaining them.

I had a difficult time to decide on the goodie bag though. I wanted to do something simple and at the same time unique and it had to be cheap! In my search on different magazines and websites, I found my thing on the Good Things for kids magazine by Martha Stewart. Turning a paper cup to a nice goodie bag. I changed it a bit. It is very easy and self explanatory.

You just have a cup big enough to hold your goodies. Make small wholes at the two side of cup at the top to make handle out of pipe cleaner. Glue some pretty papers around the cup covering almost 1/3 of it. Or you can decorate it with stickers. Fill it with some confetti papers and some candy and other goodies.

For thank you cards. You cut tulips out of card stock, or construction paper.  Write a thank you note on it and glue it to craft ice cream sticks. It will work as a thank you flower in your cup.

Happy Birthday to all two year olds  and their moms out there.

until later,

I heard about this new blog www.thegirlrevolution.com from mamasontheweb . You have to check it out for yourself. I think it is a wonderful site and I hope we get more materials on this subject.

I have a two years old daughter and I hope to be able to raise her to be strong. I want her to be passionate, helpful, responsible, intelligent, at the same time carefree, and many other things I can’t think of now.

The way my mom raised me had a very good effect on my. I have an outstanding self confidence, and I believe I can do whatever I put my mind in to. I hope to be able to empower my daughter as mom my empowered me.

Good job Tracee, keep up the good work.

Don’t forget to check the blog and spread the word.

http://thegirlrevolution.com/

Until Later,

Tags: daughter, girls, independant, intelligent, responsible, revolution

I was experimenting this new creative technique to get through my son, and make him use less (as he says) scary words. I guess this is going on in his pre-school because most of moms were complaining that their sons are making scary voices and using words like, beat, break, kill,…

Not bad words necessarily, especially in the context they use it. But it drives me crazy listening to my son even using these words in a play with his sister or when he is angry of something.

So I started slowly a week ago and from time to time when he said forbidden words or was unfair to his sister I would pretend I can’t see him. I would talk to myself saying something like “ I wonder where he is, I can’t see him, I guess he did something wrong again”. What happened was that he would try to get my attention. I wouldn’t given up until he apologize.

I started is very slow and two days ago, I did this every time he misbehaved. Well yesterday and today were no forbidden words days. ?  We are still working on playing nice with sister but that is also 50% better.

I think I won this battle, until the next one…

Until later,