Monthly Archives: April 2012

Staying Healthy on Vacation

My view for the majority of my vacation…yes please! I just returned from a lovely kid-free weekend with my husband. We had an amazing time. We pretty much ate, slept and lounged our way through two and a half delightful Southern California days. But we have also been on a major health kick for the…

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TV Free Activities- Preschool Teacher to the Rescue!

Eye-Hand coordination with hammering out side We are surviving amazingly well on very little TV for the kiddos.  He still likes his morning cartoon.  I liken it to my morning cup of coffee, he’s not quite awake until he’s had an episode of Phinnes and Ferb, and I am really fine with that. I cleaned…

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Wordless Wednesday- The No TV Fort

Day 2 of our modified National Turn Off Your TV week.  I offered Brady 20 minutes of TV before bed, as is his normal routine, and he chose to listen to his CD story of Cat In The Hat inside the fort he built for that purpose.  I guess we are doing ok at the…

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The TV Diet

This week is National Turn Off Your TV Week…or maybe it is next week. (A few different sources say different dates.) I posted on Facebook to see who was “in” for the challenge. Fellow parents wondered if it meant all screen time; lapsers, iPods, youtube? Was it just for kids or did it mean US…

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Wordless Wednesday-End of the Nap Boycott??

AH…nothin’ like a sleeping baby!  We have had a bit of a nap boycott in our house.  At 14 months, I know she is getting close to dropping her two nap a day routine, but I thought it was a bit too soon.  Most experts agree that between 15-18 months is a normal time frame…

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