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Talking to toddlers: You are all my children
Image via Wikipedia Going to play groups, Anya and I come into ever more contact with older kids. I found, to my own astonishment, that I really didn’t know how to talk to them. The first time it...
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Having a conversation
Yesterday I had the first conversation with my daughter. It went like this: Me: ‘Anya, it is time to go out, now’ Anya is super excited, smiles and bounces up and down. Mom puts on Ergo and pulls baby...
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How my daughter continues to blow my little mind with her little hands
Mommy’s swelling pride means the first thing I want to share with you all is Anya’s signing progress. I just find this whole ‘human learning to communicate’ journey endlessly fascinating. Anya seems to...
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1 Award, 7 Secrets I Have Been Keeping and 15 Mommy and Photography Blogs
I have been nominated for a Stylish Blog Award by the lovely Rachel of Racheous, bless her. It seems like this ‘award’ is one of those happy-viruses that gets you to play a game (which in this case...
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A great ‘natural parenting’ resource: Hobo Mama’s blog
I love me a bit of synchronicity, I do. Yesterday I sourced a photo from a flickr account called HoboMama of a mother breastfeeding a toddler. Today I stumbled across this: Hobo Mama, the blog. And I...
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The other dada (or: when, oh, when will she call me Mama?)
On the other hand, at 14 months, Anya still doesn’t call me Mama! For the last six months, I have been dada (along with the other dada). She knows the difference, she’ll point at the right one of us in...
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I have a new name and my name is Mama!
Woohoo! So, pretty much the day after that last post about Anya calling both of us ‘dada’ Anya did it, she called me Mama with a point and everything. She has been at it ever since. It is like her new...
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Is my toddler’s gluten-free, dairy-free diet ‘restrictive’?… or a start to a...
I wonder what other people think when I tell them what my daughter eats. Please don’t give her (*deep breath in*): wheat, milk, yogurt, cheese, sugar, sweet treats, citrus, apples, tomatoes, meat… I...
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I only need to check in once: Mothering from the Heart
Sometimes I find that I question everything. I ask myself what I want to do… then start second guessing myself – ‘but is that the best thing for Anya?’, ‘Is that what will make her happy right now?’,...
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Yes, I defend my child’s right to say ‘no’
If I only had one word, if I was laid up in bed or something, couldn’t talk, couldn’t sign and for some reason my brain could only put together one word and if I could chose that word, now, I would...
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