Tag: children

Summer is full on here, and that can mean lazy, hot days where I simultaneously want to be outside soaking up the sunshine and...

My family moved from North Liberty to Cedar Rapids a year ago. (You might be thinking “What?! A Cedar Rapidian on the IOWA CITY...

We're big fans of Pandora in my family. The kids love their Disney and Veggie Tales stations, my husband bounces between classical and "Hipster...

Since my son was only a few months old I’ve fielded the common question, “So when are you going to have another one?” My...

Spring has finally arrived and soon we will be feeling the warmth of the sun (hopefully more consistently than 1-2 days a week), while...

Last spring, I traveled for a week in Vietnam with my young family.  Around four o’clock in the afternoon, the intense equatorial heat finally...

It’s about that time to start switching my little one from a bottle to a sippy cup.  We have not practiced much with sippies.  To...

“Don’t touch that!” “That’s not for you!” “Not in your mouth!” These are things that I rather frantically told my very independent and also food-allergic toddler when...

As the school year passes by, you can probably ask your child how many days they have been in school so far this year,...

We've all heard the term:  nature versus nurture.  Let's face it:  some aspects of our children can not be controlled, or changed, or altered in any...