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Medicine cabinet necessities for parents

All right, folks. In my nearly 6 years of parenting, with experience with 3 kids, here’s my list of absolute must-haves in the medicine cabinet.

Bactine: The spray stuff that disinfects without hurting. I use it at least once a week for scraped knees.
Sting-eeze: It’s a goop you put on bee stings or fire ant bites [...]

Fluoride toothpaste is toxic

I just came across this post at ModernMom about toxicity in fluoride toothpaste. Yikes! Her little one grabbed the tube of yummy-tasting bubblegum fluoride toothpaste (for kids) and started chowing down. Not unheard of. That stuff tastes good, right? Well, poison control advised her to rush to the ER because the dosage could be toxic. [...]

Involved parents = healthy kids

A new study published today in the journal Pediatrics suggest that 3 routines in childhood will fight obesity, specifically in preschoolers. Thanks to ParentDish for pointing it out.
Want to know what the 3 magic routines are? My guess is, if you’re reading this blog, you already practice them.

Family meals at least 5 times a week. [...]

5 Reasons Edible Schoolyards are Necessary

Have you heard of the Edible Schoolyard? It’s this fantastic concept of putting gardens in our schools. Not just any gardens, but green-powered gardens that kids take care of. Do you get it? Our kids, who too often think that milk and carrots come from Super Walmart, are suddenly thrust into an active ’schoolyard’ (in [...]

Product Reviews – Welcome to my home!

Because I suffer from fairly severe buyers remorse and buyers anxiety, I am not one to just walk into a store and buy a product because I need it. Go to the store and blindly pick out toothpaste? No, no, no! When it comes down to products to be used in my [...]

Snowed in?

Well, we’re not, here in Atlanta. But my kids are acting as if they were. We’re in the midst of a rousing game of Red Light Green Light in the living room and dining room. It occurs to me that maybe this isn’t the best game to play in the house with a baby crawling [...]

Help! Need carpet cleaning help!

By any chance would you know of a good (and all-natural) way to get purple Hello Kitty lip gloss out of cream colored carpet? There are globs of it. And smears. And it’s purple for goodness sake!
Yes, I’m aware that the best medicine is prevention. But now that my 3 year old son experimented with [...]

Kids keep it clean? Could it be?

Q from a reader: I don’t particularly care if my child likes to mess things up or get dirty. What i can’t stand is repetition. The worst is coming home “Everyday” and there are toys everywhere and i’m tripping all over the place. Or if my daughter repeatedly spills her milk all over the sofa. [...]

Home remedies: Honey for a cough

Studies have shown honey to be more effective to treat a cough than OTC cough medicines. When I first saw the report last year I wondered how I’d get honey into my kids – would they really lick super-sweet honey off a spoon? Mine are too young to stir it into hot water as some [...]

Mylicon drops recalled

Parents of infants take note! The Mylicon drops so many of us use to soothe our babies when their tummies are upset have been recalled. There’s a possibility that they could contain metal fragments from the manufacturing process. Click here for more information about the recall. It effects only the non-staining (“good”) drops that are [...]