Vaccination without needles… a new, safer reality (with video).
Any parent will testify that taking your child to the doctor, particularly to have shots, can be a traumatic experience to both, parent and child. That is because of the unique dynamic of having shots delivered via a needle. Under very few other circumstances in our children’s lives, they experience having their parents hold them while someone purposefully inflicts them pain. Now, we all know why we do it (though I personally...
Baby Teething Woes and the Toddler Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome.
This is the scary story of a toddler’s journey into the world of molar teething… Once upon a time, there was a sweet, sweet girl, name Tahra. She was a little girl with a lot of personality, but also with some incredible self control. She would be mad and just walk away, be frustrated and simply ask again and again for what she wanted, without a single fit or scream and would dutifully say please, whenever she was hungry,...
Letters To Our Daughter: Hurricane Sandy and Birthdays
The Letters to our Daughter posts consist of some excerpts of the diary we have written to her since we found out I was pregnant. November 3rd, 2012 – 4 Months Old My Dear Baby girl On the 28th of October we were getting ready to celebrate daddy’s birthday and a hurricane was scheduled to hit NYC. It ended up hitting New York City the following night. Hurricane Sandy left half of NY without light and a lot of people in...
NYC Big Egg Hunt for Fabergé Eggs
Now that Tahra is old enough to understand when we are doing an activity together, I was trying to find something appropriate for Easter, besides buying bunnies and painting eggs, especially since we haven’t introduced her to any candy yet and would like to keep it that way for the time being. Then we found out about the Big Egg Hunt, and figured we could use this for any activity, and she would be thrilled to find one of the...
What Really Makes Us Happy (with Science of Happy Infographic)
We grow up in a society that tells us that to be happy what you need is to make a ton of money, spending every waking hour focusing on your work so you can afford that brand new car your neighbor had just bought; that you need to look like an unrealistic version of a model, and that restricting all you eat with crazy and expensive diets and purchasing all the equipment infomercials sell is the way to do it. There is also the belief...
5 Minute Recipe – Yummy Nutritious Smoothie for Kids of All Ages ( and adults)
Main nutritional benefits: This smoothie can be used as a super nutritional meal substitute, because is it so rich in nutrients and absolutely delicious, especially because the oat milk is naturally sweet . It is an excellent source of Calcium, Protein, Omega complex, vitamins A, B complex, C, E, K, Iron and minerals. Classification: Vegan Vegetarian Ingredients: 1 cup of Vanilla Oat Milk ( regularly milk or other vegetarian milks...
A Beautiful Solution For Your Most Special Digital Pictures (and a bonus)
If you are anything like me, you have more digital pictures than prints of your child, your trips, and most important event in your life. I proudly announced at the end of last year that I had 8000 pictures on my phone (all dutifully backed up) from the previous year. Most of them were pictures of my daughter, little moments in life I would never experience again but that were, hopefully forever, stored in digital format for me to...
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