SuburbanDaddy

Every parent knows about Baby Einstein videos.  The company was started in the 1990’s by Julie Clark.  They combine classical music, colors, moving images, and babies are mesmerized by them.
The videos started out very low budget.  In the early ones you can see the operators hands working the toys.  Eventually, the company was bought by [...]

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I read an interesting article that suggests parents are less likely to report being happy than the childless.
In Daniel Gilbert’s 2006 book “Stumbling on Happiness,” the Harvard professor of psychology looks at several studies and concludes that marital satisfaction decreases dramatically after the birth of the first child—and increases only when the last child has [...]

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Everyone knows about the supposed terrible twos. The stage of child development characterized by frequent mood swings, temper tantrums, and liberal use of the word NO. I’d like to dispel the popular myth known as the terrible twos.
I’ll be the first to concede that two year olds often have mood swings, tantrums, and [...]

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