It's 2:52am and I just woke up. My son spontaneously woke up ten minutes ago. I took him into my bed with me but neither of us could sleep. So we got up.Usually I would be more persistent about getting back to sleep on both of our parts. But this time I gave in to [...]
As a child, I had a difficult time learning to hold a pencil. I later found out that this was connected to the fact that I skipped that crawling stage as a baby! I sat down with Christine Labeste, Pediatric Occupational Therapist, to get the scoop on crawling. Here's what she had to say: ' [...]
I previously mentioned my son's aversion to drinking milk. I've tried many creative techniques to combat this challenging behavior including strawberry milk and the commercial chocolate powder that I grew up with. See previous posts here and here. These solutions were short-lived. Today, I discovered another alternative: organic cocoa powder! My dad was drinking hot [...]
Last night was the first night of Hanukkah. My sister-in-law sent me a text message the other day asking if my son would rather have some clothes or a new toy for Hanukkah.While we can always use more clothing (since my son is growing at an extraordinary rate) I knew he was bored with all [...]
I have known for a while now that my son is an animal lover. He particularly loves Egreck, my incredibly amiable black cat.We often refer to Egreck and Simon (my other cat) as my son's "uncles." They are family to him.The other day, a package arrived in the mail addressed to my son. I opened [...]
Working with five year olds has been a lot of fun, but I have also grown emotionally from this experience. I realized my emotional growth spurt had occurred after an interaction I had with my boyfriend."Babe," he said (yes he really does call me that) "You have a bad habit of leaving the fridge door [...]
Today was the start of my new job (if you can call it that), which consists of supervising five and six year olds while they play with hula hoops, stilts and scooters and listen to Madonna on a large stereo. All of this takes place, mind you, in a school gym. In the end, I [...]
