Category: Parenting Tips
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Investigating the World Around Us with Hero Elementary
This post is sponsored by Hero Elementary on PBS KIDS. Cheers to a new year of life! We are so thankful to have another opportunity to continue learning and growing as a family with you all! The new year typically brings a lot of new things to everyone’s households, but I am going to hold…
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MommyCon Charlotte 2018
Hey Guys! I know I’ve been MIA for a while, but family & school comes first. Surely you guys understand! 🙂 I always post on Instagram, but sometimes keeping up with posting regularly is difficult. SO this post is about the next event that I’m attending and I am OH SO EXCITED ABOUT IT! Its…
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Dating and Procreating: Preparing to meet the paternal Grandparents
Due to some technical difficulties that I will affectionately call life, this post is a LITTLE late, but I hope it’s just as entertaining. Short recap: when I left off last week, Brad and I had just met in Lebanon in the midst of an ice storm because we were so full of EMOTIONS about…
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Homeless And Pregnant?!
Happy Friday & welcome back for more of the tea! ☕ If you didn’t read my blog post last Friday, “21 & pregnant?!” you totally should! Not only because it’s entertaining, but also because this post is a continuation of that post and while you CAN jump in on this one without reading the first…
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21 and PREGNANT? WHAT?!
People are having children before they accomplish their educational/professional goals all the time nowadays. Some accidentally and some on purpose; regardless, lots of these families have a very rough road of time management ahead! I can attest to that first hand. A little background about my situation; we weren’t planning to have a baby, at…
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What’s a good bed time for children?
Last week, my god-mother tagged me in a picture on Facebook that detailed the time that you’re children should be going to bed from “sleep-trained” baby to graduation. I didn’t save the picture because I’m slow, but if I recall correctly, it started at like 6pm for a baby and went up 15 mins every…
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Navigating Nutrition with Picky-Eating Toddlers
It came as no surprise to me that my child wants to be picky like her mommy & daddy. My husband and I are the blandest eaters ever! Like, if we order chicken sandwiches or burgers at a restaurant, all we want on it is cheese and bacon: no condiments, no lettuce, no tomato, no…
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Infant nutrition: milk, milk, and more milk! MUCH later, solids!
Infant feeding is one of my pet peeve topics for one million reasons: mainly because there are so many different opinions about it and its one of those subjects that people love to tiptoe around.. So I’m just going to rip the band-aid right now; if you’re offended by something I’m about to say, that’s…
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Sleeping Training… we’re not so good at it ??
So a couple of weeks ago, we visited a sleep specialist here in Knoxville to try to get Squally on an actual, existent sleep schedule.. feel free to refer back to the previous post about it to see all the fabulous deats, do’s, and don’ts! Sleep and Scheduling: Attempting the BIG TRANSITION from co-sleeping to…
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Sleep Transition/Training: Night One Chronicles
Apparently, getting your children on a sleep schedule is supposed to be good for them…so we’ve been told by a pediatric sleep specialist…see how we tried…and failed miserably…in the long run. First of all..y’all.. I am TIRED! Here’s the run down of how it all WENT down last night! At 7:45pm, we took our shower-bath…