I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief and quickly head toward the checkout of the grocery store as I watched a young mom of a toddler struggle to find her sanity deep in the cereal aisle. While good and evil fought for my spirit, one telling me to stop and help, and the […]
It seemed every day, beginning at the time my daughter was two years old, my vernacular would be filled with more points of repeat than resolve. “My child will not listen,” I’d say to the other frazzled and frustrated mommies in our weekly play group. Sadly, we shared the same angst and a few of […]
Picky eaters. We may have one, we may have been one or we may be married to one. How many times have you found yourself engaged in mealtime negotiations when your child refuses to eat what you have prepared? Or, perhaps your child tries to take control and demands profusely that he will not eat […]
“Time out young lady!” “Timmy, you are going in time out right now!” To many young children, hearing “time out” becomes the first dreaded words that signify mischief or wrongdoing. But for June Kalski, a busy mom of two kids ages three and six, time out became something she could look forward to that helped […]
It has been said when you become a parent, your whole world changes. But what you never hear is when your child becomes a toddler, your world changes by the minute. Perhaps this is a precursor to the pre-teen years or some silly test of patience and will, but regardless, as a parent of a […]
