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Experts say setting a potty schedule helps teach your child to use the toilet. But how do you keep to that schedule – and minimize conflict between yourself and a stubborn toddler?
Presenting iGo Potty – the potty training app developed by the makers of Pull-Ups Training Pants, the potty training experts. iGo Potty makes potty [...]

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Let me give a summary of how just about every day with Thing 3 goes these days. He wakes up around 6:30am in a bad mood, crying for no particular reason until he has his cup of milk like a two-pack-a-day smoker has to have his first smoke.
It takes little to set him off [...]

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When this is the picture at 6pm on Sunday, you know it has been a very, very long weekend. There is no mourning the end of the weekend over here.

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Now that Thing 1 has started 1st grade in a new school, we want to know more about what he does all day and how he is doing.  But you won’t get any of that information from him.
Me:  “How was school today?”
Thing 1:  “Good”
Me:  “What did you do?”
Thing 1: “I don’t remember”
So I rephrased the [...]

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For those of you anxiously awaiting this final stay-cation post, here you go. There was an open house for Thing 1’s elementary school – he started first grade this week. He met his teacher, saw his desk, and and saw where the bus will drop him off.  Thing 1 was most excited about [...]

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Is this not the most determined little face?  Thing 4 has started to sit up on her own. She can sit for almost a minute on her own. At not yet 6 months, I think she’s ahead of all her brothers at that age, even Thing 1 who was fully walking at 9 [...]

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Today I introduced Thing 1 and Thing 2 to one of my all time favorite activities:  Wiffle Ball! We played in the morning before it got really hot. Then to stay cool we checked out a new “luxury” bowling alley with some SuburbanNeighbors who found themselves also on a stay-cation after cutting their [...]

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We slowed down some today and built in sibling separation time so we didn’t have a repeat of yesterday. And since we also needed to get some household chores done in the morning, Thing 1 got to help me fold four loads of laundry, while Thing 2 was SuburbanMommy’s assistant at the grocery [...]

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