Captivate Your Young Child With These Daily Family Products
Photo: Daniela Jovanovska-Hristovska (Getty Images) Here’s a secret: Kids’ favorite toys cannot be found on any store shelf. Instead, just about everything you need to stimulate, captivate and exhaust your young offspring is probably already in your possession, hiding in your linen closet, kitchen cabinet or garage. Once you start digging around your home (as…
How to Use an Infant Provider Like a Guy
Photo: Warner Bros. How do you wear a baby carrier like a real man? Pretty simply: 1) Be a man. 2) Wear a baby carrier. Despite a recent Twitter take by Piers Morgan, who thought it’d be hilarious to dad-shame Daniel Craig for, um, transporting his own child, there is nothing “emasculating” about a dude…
Do Not Job a Sexual Identity Onto Little Children
A smiling infant boy is not a “ladykiller.” A toddler offering an adult a cookie is not a “flirt.” Literally nothing a baby does needs to be turned into a romantic moment, so let’s stop saying things that imply otherwise. It’s extremely weird to imply that babies are crushing on each other or even crushing…
Speak with Your New Child the Method You ‘d Speak With...
Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts (Getty Images) As I prepare for life with a new baby, I’ve been hearing a lot of advice on how to help my five-year-old daughter Maggie transition into her role of a big sister, a title she’s not entirely thrilled about. “Read her some big sibling books,” people say. (Done.) “Let…
Attempt This Onesie Technique Prior To Altering Your Infant’s Diaper
Photo: Ben Pipe Photography (Getty Images) Changing the diaper of a baby who can stand is an exercise in swift reflexes and hope. There are many variables to factor in, including those pesky onesie flaps that dangle in the danger zone, if you know what I mean. Here’s a trick to make the procedure much…
Make a Child Tub in Your Shower With an Inflatable Swimming...
Photo: Amazon The bath is a place of solace for babies, where they can make bubble-bath beards and write cryptic messages out of foam letters. If your place doesn’t have a tub, they can still experience the magic—you just have to get creative. Check out this mom’s solution. She simply places a small inflatable pool…
Pregnant Females Who Get an Influenza Shot Protect Their Infants, Too
Getting the flu is never a pleasant experience, but for pregnant women, the illness can be particularly bad. That's because pregnant women are considered one of the "high-risk" groups who are more likely to develop complications from the flu. Despite this risk, last flu season, just 49.1 — less than half — of the pregnant…
Ways to Childproof Your Home for Your 2nd Kid
Photo: Taira Kurihara (Getty Images) When I was pregnant with my daughter, my husband went through the childproofing checklists, making sure our home wouldn’t be a danger zone for a tot who believes the entire world is just waiting to be touched, climbed and licked. We crawled on the floor in a quest for potential…
The Very Best Infant Toy Could Be a TELEVISION Remote
Photo: Amazon Babies. You buy them diapers, but they decide to pee on you during changing time. You make them gourmet pureed meals, but they’re most satisfied gnawing on their boogers. You give them beautiful toys, but all they want to play with is the TV remote. Sometimes, you’ve just gotta give in. The remote…
Baby Walkers Are Still Bad
Photo: Copyright Crezalyn Nerona Uratsuji (Getty Images) Infant walkers, those wheeled contraptions that give babies who can’t yet walk the sudden ability to walk, are bad. This has been long established. But parents keep using them and so pediatricians are renewing the call for a ban. What can be so wrong with the seemingly ubiquitous…
