Kodak Zi8 Review: Awesome for Family Movies

June 28, 2010

This week I bought myself a new toy. I’m a big gadget fan and I love to buy new electronics. But this time the “toy” has a real family purpose! Check out this quick video I made with the Kodak Zi8. It was shot in 720P high definition video and snappily edited in iMovie ’09 [...]

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Healthy Eating for Your Child: Breakfast Muesli

June 7, 2010

Parents should care about what they feed their kids. But they also want something that is easy to prepare. Breakfast is an important part of the day. Most parents feed their children too much junk food including processed flour and sugar. Here is a way to avoid that.

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Raising Toddlers Tips: Shift The Responsibility

May 18, 2010

One of the things I’ve noticed about parenting toddlers is that kids can be very demanding. Not only will they make demands of you, but their demands can get increasingly specific. It almost seems like they are doing it on purpose just to see how far they can push things. My youngest daughters was a [...]

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My Toddler Drinks Too Much Juice! What Should I Do?

May 8, 2010

I think that a lot of parents realize that too much juice is a bad thing. So if you catch yourself saying wondering how to reduce the amount of juice your toddler drinks, I’ve got an idea that works really well in my household, and I’m happy to share it with you.

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Using Language to Deal with Toddlers and Preschoolers

April 19, 2010

Over the last few years I’ve come across countless situations were parents feel like they don’t know how to deal with toddlers and preschoolers. Parents get stressed out because of the “bad behavior” and I’ve received plenty of emails from those who feel that they’ve failed at being a parent. If this describes you then [...]

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Getting Kids to Go to Bed: One Trick That I’ve Used

March 30, 2010

As parents, we all run into the occasional night where are toddlers or kids resist bedtime. They just don’t want to go to sleep, and even if we have a routine established, they put up a fuss. If you had a bad day and are short tempered, you can easily let it turn into a [...]

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Communication Problems Often Masked as Child Behavior Problems

March 11, 2010

It’s so easy to label something that your child does as “bad behavior”, isn’t it? Sometimes it isn’t what your child does, it’s what they don’t do. You tell your toddler to go do something, he or she refuses and you get mad. You raise your voice, your child cries, and you’re all having wonderful [...]

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Baby GO is an Awesome BlackBerry Game for Toddlers

March 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. Recently a good friend of mine, who is also a BlackBerry user, told me about a new game that had been released.

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Book Recommendation: What to Expect When You’re Expecting

March 3, 2010

This past weekend, my wife and I were cleaning up the home office, where we have a couple of big bookshelves. She pulled down “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”, which we had purchased before the birth of our first child. We sat there for a minute and just thought back to the good times [...]

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Influencing Kids with Language Tricks – An Example

February 24, 2010

I want to tell you a story about one recent Sunday morning and how I used language to influence my kids. I hope this story shows you how easy it can be to leverage communication skills.

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