I wonder if you would come across some occasions that your whatever-in-laws or even strangers give you some unsolicited advice on how to take care of your baby. It sounds like your parenting skills are far below their standards. Suelain Moy suggests 10 ways to deal with those people who doubt your parenting skills. It’s [...]

While doing some research and writing posts on eating, I found a very useful tool for tracking down the responses of your child when introducing solid foods. It is a very scientific way to either spot a problematic food to your child or minimize the chance of giving allergic foods to your little one repeatedly [...]

When a new baby is going to be born, every family member will surely get excited. What name should he/she be called? Name is very important to a person indeed. Apart from parents, everyone seems to want to name your to-be-born baby too. Maybe it’s his/her grandma, grandpa, your relatives or your friends. How can [...]

This recipe is quite good for teething babies if you want to introduce some fruits to them as well: A variety of fruits (pears and apples are good) Cut each fruit into quarters, then put into a bowl and cover to microwave for about 4 minutes. Chop fruit with an electric blender or chopper. You [...]

The growth of a healthy baby depends on the regularity and quantity of a balanced diet. How do new parents go about feeding their babies? If your baby is fed by breast milk, when and how many times should they have a day? How about feeding with formula? MedlinePlus offers parents some clear and easy-to-follow [...]

Recently I’ve been spending more time on reading many wonderful blogs, not just reading info on websites as usual. Through the magical tags on Technorati, I found this witty hack by Amy Maxwell to teach baby to use a spoon: Life gets messy when you begin to teach a baby how to feed herself with [...]

As there is a wide range of diversity in parents’ and pediatricians’ advice on what, when and how to introduce solid foods to infants, over at Healthy Child, Dr. Parker has an excellent list of sum-up tips for parents to take into account: Hold off the introducing solid foods until 4-6 months. (Remember that cereal [...]

Children need parents set a boundary to help them grow into a respectful and responsible person. Over at indystar.com Courtenay Edelhart writes that setting boundaries is a teaching process. It’s never too early to set and enforce boundaries. Even can start from the stage of infants, like telling them that “pulling someone’s hair or snatching [...]

How do parents really help their babies learn new words? Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience managing editor writes that according to recent study, “babies don’t much care what their parents say” or what their parents think is important. They tend to associate a new word with the object they like best. Our teaching should be based [...]

When my children were still at preverbal stage, I used words combining with some gestures to communicate with them. Waive my hands to say goodbye or shake my head indicating no, patting my hip to say a diaper change…something like that. My children easily understood me and imitated my gestures and words as well. Recently [...]