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Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Raising a Glass to Raising Kids

by ACMJ August 31, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image via Wikipedia Cheers! If you are reading this post, odds are it is because you are a parent or about to become one. We at Extrahourdinary Parenting are taking a moment to toast your decision to do so! Raising kids is exhausting, frustrating, and expensive, but as most people will tell you, it’s also [...]

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Parenting Tip of the Day: Surviving the Dreaded Conversation

by ACMJ August 2, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image via Wikipedia Yes, the conversation. Not the birds and the bees. Not the one about their friend you can’t stand. No, no…. I’m talking about the conversation about rhythm. In particular, I’m talking about when you say “So, son/daughter, are you interested in learning to play a musical instrument?” And they say, to your [...]

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Parenting Tip of the Day: Hulu Helper

by ACMJ July 26, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image via CrunchBase One of the fun things I discovered during my many hours feeding the new baby is Hulu. Hulu.com hosts all sorts of fun shows for free, and for $10 a month you can get access to the whole series with back episodes. I have caught up on Glee, How I Met Your [...]

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Tired of Tylenol

by ACMJ May 6, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Johnson and Johnson issued yet another recall after outside inspection of their manufacturing facilities revealed major problems and errors in the production of infant and children’s tylenol, motrin, benadryl, and zyrtec. Can I tell you how tired I am of these kinds of errors? I already had a bottle [...]

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Parenting Tip of the Day: Filling in the (Information) Gaps

by ACMJ April 27, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

In this era of technology and innovative baby gear, with mom-preneurs out there by the thousands improving products that have been made the same-old, same-old way for decades, with stay-at-home dads reengineering the baby stroller into a wicked machine built for speed, it’s hard to imagine that there are any information gaps left out there [...]

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Monday Morning Memo Parenting Tip #19: Bring Back the VHS Tapes

by ACMJ April 2, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image via Wikipedia I was at a consignment pre-sale the other night, and came across a table full of kids movies on VHS tapes. Consignment sales, by the way, are one of my favorite things to participate in. I absolutely love them. If you go through the hoops of selling a few items of clothing [...]

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Guest Post: Dealing With Your Child’s Bad Habits

by ACMJ March 25, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

EHP welcomes guest author, Alan Murray, a professional webmaster from Scotland, UK. If you like his article below, check out his other work! His website site has comprehensive information on not just baby names but pregnancy, toddlers and much, much more. ———————————————————– How to Deal With Your Child’s Bad Habits Biting Biting usually happens in [...]

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Monday Morning Memo Parenting Tip #18: Toddler Art Ideas

by ACMJ February 16, 2010 Monday Morning Memo Top 10 Parenting Tips

Image by qthomasbower via Flickr At our house, arts and crafts are the area where my son and I regularly connect. He has his sports and outdoor activities with his dad, his football watching with his dad, and his tool/build/repair time with his dad. With me, we connect on reading, on organizing (I know, you [...]

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