how to handle a family of eight
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 […]
Either your baby likes pacifiers or doesn’t. I have had five babies. 2 loved their pacifier (my 2-year old boy still does), my now 4 year old girl absolutely hated it ..had a gag-reflex..my now 3 year old boy only wanted it until he was about 6 months and my now 3 month old baby […]
Having 5 kids under the age of 5 I realized fast that my children have really strong opinions to what they like and what they don’t like. When my oldest daugter was about 3 and a half she started combining pants with dresses. At first I thought it looked kind of wierd that she was […]
Now that my 2 girls have reached the ages of 4 and 5 years of age they are really getting at each others nerves. They both sleep in the same room at night in bunk beds which is usually a great thing…they have alot of girl fun time together, laughing, dancing and just playing together. […]
My five year old daughter can be really stubborn and sometimes she just doesn’t want to give in especially when she bugs her sisters and brothers behind moms back. One day I got really sick of having all her younger siblings coming to me and complaining (she’s the oldest) that she took their favorite toy […]
That’s one really good thing about having so many little ones, is that I have a lot of little helpers. I found out a really easy way to sink my stress level and actually the idea came from my five year old daughter. Carrying a screaming heavy 3-month old baby boy, trying to prepare lunch […]
my 3 year old son was scared he would fall down the toilet, so we turned him around facing the toilet (completely backwards) - it works great and when we travel he even sits in the right direction.