Children – Page 10

The Toddler Sleep Chronicles

Listen. I’m tired.

By nature I am a bit of an insomniac and in a nice quiet room I can function off of 3-4 peaceful hours of sleep. Please note I said peaceful.

Initially we embraced co-sleeping until it became violent as depicted here. The violence wasn’t getting any better so I started placing her in her own bed at night. Yet, like clockwork somewhere between the hours of 12a-1:30a she will sleep “drunk” walk her way into our room. Sometimes she even detours to the kitchen, grabs a bottle of cold juice and will hurl it on the bed while yelling ” I shirsty”

Can you imagine a cold bottle of Simply Lemonade touching your leg in the middle of a good sleep. You don’t want to. Trust me.

So we know she had issues with staying in the bed early on

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Children• Lil Man• Parenting• Rant

Instagram and A Six Year Old

The delicate subject of parenting in this age of social media, and technology is starting to rear its ugly head in this little home in a southern ‘burb of the A.T.L.

I just had a bad feeling about my son getting that iPod from my father from the very beginning. Mother’s intuition anyone? My father insisted it was equivalent to the Gameboy that he purchased for me when I was just a hair older than my son is now. My argument was WiFi probably wasn’t even thought of at that time, and there wasn’t much damage that I could do sticking a Tetris cartridge in it except playing it until my thumbs were sore.

I had to deliberately explain to him that my son would be able to access the internet and its crazies and potentially download apps that would show up as charges on my debit card. To ease my nerves he said he would have a talk with him about internet safety and not to download any apps without my permission.

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Children

Time to Play Mag and Niche Mommy Conference

I’ve been keeping a secret…Do you care?

Well this weekend I will be heading out to New Orleans for the inaugural Niche Mommy Conference and I am thrilled to be sponsored by Time to Play.

Purchasing christmas and birthday gifts for children can be very intimidating even for the most experienced of us. I’ve been in the parenting game for nearly 7 years and I still find myself walking in circles on the toy aisle when it comes time to purchase a child’s birthday gift or better yet come up with a list of what to purchase my own children for Christmas.

With Christmas nearly ~~1 week~~ 4 months away it is time to really start thinking about what gifts we will give the children in our lives..and yes that includes big children ie. Men.

Time to Play Mag is an excellent resource to utilize in researching the top rated toys to make your life easier. Experts within the company travel the world getting the inside scoop on the newest and hottest toys, video games, and entertainment products, even those that haven’t hit the shelves yet.

Its all fun and games with Time to Play every Wednesday at 1 pm EST using the hashtag #TimetoPlayLive on Twitter for their virtual game show where you can win fun prizes for answering trivia centric to toys and children’s entertainent. If you want to play along please make sure to follow @TimetoPlay @JimSilver and @TheToyGuy for tips, clues and fun chatter during play time. All questions and winner declaration will come from @TimetoPlay.

Connect with Time to Play now so you won’t have to jog your brain to remember this post when you get stumped about what to purchase for the kiddies come the holidays!!

Web. Twitter. Facebook. Youtube. Pinterest

Do you know what all of the hot toys are? I don’t. *shrugs*

*This is indeed a sponsored post…BUT all opinions are my own. You already knew this*

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Boy Style• Children• Fashion• Girl Style

Where I Partied at BlogHer..Zutano Edition

I was honored to once again be invited by Momtrends to a private party held during BlogHer. This party was at F.A.O.Schwarz.

This time I got the opportunity to learn more about the uber cute Zutano baby line that will soon be at your local Target.

The crowd was small and intimate, the perfect setting to hear from the founder of the company and his family regarding their passion for the business and how delivering orders on a bicycle turned into a major children’s clothing brand.

This bike was used to make deliveries when the company was started

Presentation about the start of the company

Zutano has some of the cutest baby things. I think the issue with some of children’s clothing today is designers are making children’s clothing miniature versions of our apparel. I am guilty of dressing my daughter as a mini me at times but it is so refreshing see how Zutano merges colorful baby centric designs with more modern styles that mix just the right amount of tradition with today’s trends.

Here are is a look at some of their adorable childrens clothing. ~~If you are having baby fever look away!!~~

I ordered my daughter this cute jacket and scarf . Can’t wait until it gets cool enough for her to wear it.

Are you familiar with Zutano? Make sure to look out for them on the Web, Twitter, Facebook and at Target near you coming soon.

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