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Helping Baby Sleep Through the Night – 5 tips 0
A good age for baby to begin to sleep through the night is around 5 or 6 months. After the growth spurt that occurs at that age.
A few tips to having this happen are making sure that the baby and their environment are ready for sleep.
Some things to consider:
1. Timing your last feeding for the night as close to 11pm as possible. Read the rest of this entry →
First Steps to Indepenence: Holding your own Bottle. 3

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My end goal for parenting is to have happy, independent, helpful, productive adults. And I’m pretty sure the way to achieve that is by having happy, independent, helpful, productive children.
I don’t mean full blown adult versions of these attributes. I mean the appropriate child-age versions of them. So, this means that I begin to look for opportunities to expose my children to opportunities to learn these types of attributes. Read the rest of this entry →
When Should Children Start Formal Schooling? 0
When should children start formal schooling?
As late as possible, according to Canadian psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld. A recent article published by the IMFC (Institute of Marriage and Family, Canada) Dr. Neufeld explains how attachments to peers can cause a plethora of problems which may not be recognized until later in life when the affects of the peer attachment develops.
Neufeld suggests that sending young children to daycare because it will help them overcome shyness, or get along with others, or in fact because the child “loves to go and spend time with her peers,” is the wrong thing to do. Read the rest of this entry →










