how to handle a family of eight
Mama… When? Mama… Why? Mama… Where? I’m not getting anything done, and the kids want to go outside to play. Especially my 7 year old daughter has a way of sticking around when I’m trying to get things done fast. She’ll invent a complete series of questions which naturally have to be answered with my […]
My 7-year old daughter loves to help me with everything… she is the oldest child and has 5 younger brothers and sisters.
(Dublin the cat)
We want her to have a normal childhood but she likes pretending to be a parent more, which is not always to the liking of her smaller siblings and the character being […]
Our Son was pretty good with going to the bathroom during the day, wears underwear, goes to the bathroom himself, comes to Mama or Papa when he does number 2 and needs his behind cleaned with a moist wipe.
At first he was also not having any problems at night. But after about 6 months of […]
Quick tip: trying to get the diaper on and baby’s just not cooperating, try giving her a cream bottle or baby hairbrush lying near the changing table; mine grasps it, plays with it and analyzes it just long enough to lie still for the critical fastening moment of the diaper changing process.
You know how it goes, you think baby isn’t up for feeding time yet, so I could get dinner ready, work on my computer, or vacuum the crumbs underneath the table?….but just in the minute you start to concentrate on doing something else he/she starts …first it’s only a few grunts and squeals but then […]
Having 6 children we have a lot of routine things that we do in our daily life. One of them is distributing the children’s vitamins. As most families, all of our children are very different: one is more outgoing, the other one shy; one gets angry more easily and yells, whereas another one just […]
Lyme Shore was born on Sept. 13 2007
healthy girl 7 Pound 5 Ozs 19.5 Inches
lots of work now …
Sometimes it’s just easier to give my kids what they want. It saves a whole lot of time, a whole lot of stress, and the kids are much happier. A few examples: My son always wants to wear his spiderman T-shirt and he carries his yellow horse stuffed animal everywhere he goes, my other […]
As my oldest two daughters, now 4 and 5, got to be about 2 and 3 years old what really got on my nerves is that one of them had something, it could be anything, theoretically it could be a piece of garbage, anyway one held it in the hand while the other one stood […]
With 5 kids ages 5 and under I have a lot of wash. One trick is to try to save things that the kids have worn once or twice but have no stains and really aren’t dirty. Hang them up to air out on a rack or in an extra closet that you can leave […]