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Introducing Your Child to School with Great Stories

Introducing Your Child to School with Great Stories

In another month, most kids will be heading back to school. If your child will be going to school for the very first time, this is the start of an exciting new stage in their life! Take the time now, to introduce him or her to life at school! You can do this with the help of...

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This Is How We Brush Our Teeth!

Brushing your teeth properly is an important part of dental hygiene that most of us understand. Toddlers, however, have different ideas when it comes to keeping their mouths clean! It can take a lot of persistence and resourcefulness on your part to teach a toddler...

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Help: My Child Won't Get into Their Car Seat!

What a wonderful scenario, and all too familiar to many parents - you've got a schedule to keep, such as picking up a sibling from school, and your preschooler decides to "pull the stunt" and refuse to get into their seat! You desperately start coaxing and offering treats...

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Having a Second Child

I am about to give birth to my second child. The problem is I can't imagine loving her as much as I love my firstborn. What if I always love my first child more than my second? I'm petrified I'm going to mess up baby number two's life and she hasn't even arrived yet...
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Toddler's Colourful Language

My toddler has developed a rather colourful vocabulary-so colourful, in fact, that his daycare provider commented upon it the last time I dropped him off. How can I encourage him to ditch the bad language. It's embarrassing to have a two year old with a vocabulary...
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Help at Mealtime

Things seem to fall apart at our house most nights when I'm trying to make dinner. My baby will want to nurse or be held, my toddler will want me to play with him, and in the meantime I'll be trying to figure out how to get something more inspired than chicken nuggets on the table.
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Babies sleeping through the night

All the other moms in my moms' group seem to have babies who have been sleeping through the night since they were about two months old. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. My baby is five months old and I can count on being up with him at least twice in the night.
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Making Strange with Grandparents

My ten-month-old baby is starting to make strange with her grandparents. I can tell that this is hurting my father-in-law's feelings. How should I handle the situation? It can be a little disconcerting to go from being the cuddler-in-chief to persona non-grata in the blink of an eye...
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Hiring a Good Nanny

I was completely prepared when I hired my nanny. I had worked in the childcare industry for over 15 years. I had helped hundreds of other parents in Canada find nannies and babysitters. I had worked with my nanny for three days before I left her with my daughter...
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Avoiding Disaster Playdates

Our last playdate was a disaster. I'm not sure who was more miserable by the time we said our goodbyes to the visiting child: my child or me! Any thoughts on what I could do to help things go a little more smoothly the next time around?