Week #3: 5 Great Outdoor Activities that Encourage us to Play with Our Kids

When we were still living in South Africa, I bought a life-saving book, written by Dawn Isaac, titled “101 Things For Kids To Do Outside“. Not only did this book offer us ideas for hours of fun and constructive activities, it also saved my life (read sanity) during those LONG holidays. Now we’re in the twilight of our first Michigan Winter – worlds apart from where we were a year ago! And I must...

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How to deal with tantrums? My experience with a toddler of almost 3 years.

Tantrums on toddlers? Do I have to let him calm down? Recently I have read a scientific study about tantrums and how to deal with them on a toddler. And I have found out, that it is very important to leave your kid to calm down, then to ask him about his tantrums and to let him/her express his/her feelings. All of us, for sure, have passed through such uncontrollable emotions of our toddlers and...

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Week #2. Tips for flying with babies.

Happy to announce that this project continues with another wonderful blogpost and today I have as a guest Sarah from tammymum. A great mum who shares with us her experience and tips for flying with babies. Having recently embarked on air travel with an 18 month old and a 7 month old I have decided to write down all the things that helped get us through our 4 hour flight. I'm not saying it'll...

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Week #1: 5 Tips for introducing a new sibling to toddlers and preschoolers

Welcome to week´s #1 post from #happymamasecrets project. Today´s invitee is Harriet from Toby & Roo and her super cute kids. Feel free to share and comment. I, personally enjoyed reading her article. Introducing a new sibling to our family is something I was so worried about, especially as Reuben, who is nearly 4 years old and very aware of what is taking place around him, seemed...

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For all mommies bloggers

*****This post is dedicated to all mums bloggers***** I have thought a lot how to write this post and how to manage all the ideas into one post. To write a long story short. I want to launch a new project on my blog, where other mums could share theirs experience and their thoughts of motherhood. The main idea is to share thoughts and ideas to be a mum, as well to get more views with making shares of the posts. What will you get from that? - a new link to your website - your post will be...

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