Dear Parents Who Wash Their Child's Diapers,

Do you know about the diaper sprayer
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Lillia has no crib. She sleeps on a mattress on the floor, which is also called a "Montessori child bed." I'd love to say that it was a carefully thought out decision because I'm such a huge Montessori evangelist, but the real reason behind the setup is that when Lillia graduated out of our bed, I went to put together my old crib¹ and found it was ( Read more... )

What percent of your childhood longing does the following paragraph describe?

Children tend to relate with onscreen characters during the learning programs and build a positive relationship with that character, who seems to be heroic and/or loving and/or caring and/or funny. Then, when they interact with that character again, it tends to be in a ( Read more... )

Now that more of my friends have kids, it's interesting to see how couples choose to divide up paid employment vs childcare. My favorite so far is the Bensons, who each work at paid employment a few days of the week, so they take turns with childcare. It looks like the Kullas do something similar. This is less practical when your baby is ( Read more... )

I have a love/hate relationship with the Puyallup Fair. I love the family tradition of taking the boys every year, but I hate the constant bombardment of crap to buy (like I'm really going to impulse buy a hot tub or tractor?). This year, I decided to take note of all the stuff we did that didn't cost a penny (other than the price of admission ( Read more... )