From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Review: Stokke Tripp Trapp

September 28, 2008

After much research on my part, my hus­band and I set­tled on get­ting a Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair for Oliver.  It’s expen­sive, at 140 Euro for just the base chair, but we expect to get 1–2 decades of use out of it, mak­ing it more afford­able than a high chair that would only be […]

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Books for kids: the Maisy series

September 26, 2008

I’m not sure how we dis­cov­ered the Maisy books by Lucy Cousins, I was prob­a­bly just brows­ing Amazon.co.uk, but some­how I ran across the Maisy mouse series of books and ordered one.  Oliver just loves them.  The lift-the-flap books are made of seem­ingly very light­weight card­board, but are sturdy enough to han­dle tod­dler abuse without […]

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Web find: The Imperfect Parent

September 22, 2008

I recently came across a new-to-me par­ent­ing web­site, The Imper­fect Par­ent, and I gotta won­der how I man­aged to get along with­out this site for so long.  The con­trib­u­tors and read­ers accept and even bask in their imper­fec­tions, very dif­fer­ent to the judg­men­tal par­ents found at some of those other par­ent­ing web­sites. What would you […]

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The Snack Trap

September 18, 2008

When my son started eat­ing fin­ger foods on the go, I looked for some­thing to make my life eas­ier. The last thing I wanted was to be pick­ing blue­ber­ries out of the stroller seat or from between the seats in the car. On a casual trip to Babies R Us, I dis­cov­ered The Snack Trap.  The […]

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My Favorite Bibs

September 16, 2008

My sister-in-law turned me on to DEX Dura-Bibs.  The pocket at the bot­tom, cre­ated by putting together plas­tic snaps, is wide enough to catch almost any drib­ble or spill.  The bibs are soft but thick enough to stand up to lots of wip­ing and wash­ing, and the pocket eas­ily unsnaps so the whole thing lies […]

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Crayon Rocks rock our world!

September 14, 2008

Not so long ago, my mom pur­chased The Boy some Crayon Rocks. I admit to plant­ing the seed after see­ing them on another blog, and they are won­der­ful. For young hands, they are eas­ier to hold, encour­age the tri­pod hold for older chil­dren, and color beau­ti­fully. Crayon rocks are made of soy wax and minerals. […]

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Book Review: Parent Effectiveness Training

September 11, 2008

Now that my son is enter­ing his tod­dler years, I wanted a book to turn to for help with dis­ci­pline. I read through reviews of dozens of books and set­tled on three, Par­ent Effec­tive­ness Train­ing: The Proven Pro­gram for Rais­ing Respon isi­ble Chil­dren by Dr. Thomas Gor­don was the first I read. The first edition […]

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LulaSapphire.com

September 8, 2008

One of my favorite Euro­pean online shop­ping sites is the UK-based Lula Sap­phire. In addi­tion to car­ry­ing great prod­ucts from the likes of Boob, Dwell­Stu­dio, Ida-T, Katvig, Man­hat­tan Toy, Stork Sak, Swad­dle Designs, and Zutano, among many oth­ers, they claim to be the first car­bon neu­tral mother and baby retailer in the UK. They deliver […]

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Bemz: Giving your Ikea sofa new life

September 5, 2008

When I first moved to Ger­many, we bought a nice, plush, rich-purple-fabric-swathed sofa. This was pre-baby and pre-dog. It is now a slightly less nice, plush, pur­ple sofa cov­ered in drool, spit up, juice, and cookie crumbs. I wish it was as easy for us as it was for a cou­ple of friends of ours […]

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Baby Wearing

September 3, 2008

Many times while trav­el­ing I have been asked about a sling or car­rier that I am using for The Boy.  I con­sider a sling to be an essen­tial part of my travel arse­nal. There are times, when trav­el­ing, that a child wants noth­ing but to be car­ried, and rather than bat­tling the child and luggage, […]

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