Mind Your Own Kids?

Today is brought to you by my soap box. So let me take it out of storage because I haven't been up on it for a while.
Dust it off and step up.

I used to be a stay-at-home-mom. I didn't really do anything other than watch my kids, and keep house. I was frequently bored, and guilty of the charge I am about to accuse other stay-at-home-moms of. I am woman enough to own it. Why? Because since becoming a mother, and of course becoming a working mother, I can certainly say I have matured. Isn't that part of life? I mean, I still am only 26. I will continue to grow, mature, and change my mind in life. It is part of life!

LeapFrog's Hottest Holiday Products Including a Giveaway!

If I was a toddler these days, I would be all over the new Leap Frog products like nobody’s business. Seriously!

The products they have come out with, just in the past year since my oldest son got his Leapster are amazing, and I am really excited to be able to giveaway a Tag Reading system to one of my readers!

I also had the change to review the new leap pad which is featured over there in the picture! And kids toys have come such a long way since I was young… heck since my nephew was a kid too, and he is only 15!

ENTER TO WIN at Toddler Times!

10 Things I Actually Say in a Day

If you have a toddler, or two in your house you also know some of the things you say to them on a day to day basis would make you look like a damn fool if you actually used them with adults.

Right?  Yup! You know I am right!

I put out a call to my readers a couple days ago to include some of the funny and amusing things we say to our kids… and I got some really great sayings and quotes.

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Toddler Lunch: Would You Like Pot With That?

Just when I thought I have heard everything come out of my own damn state… another idiot goes and surprises me. This time it is a man from a small town called Killingworth.

A 33 year old father by the name of John Sulzbach is charged with risk of injury to a minor, and possession of a controlled substance. What was that substance?  Marijuana.

But what in the hell does this have to do with toddlers?

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Saying Goodbye to Toddlerhood

Sunday marks my first born son’s fourth birthday. He will be leaving the official world of toddlerhood and heading into I guess what we can call childhood.

It seems like yesterday he was born, and how he is a pre-schooler who has the vocabulary of a ten year old and can sass me more than any normal child.

We are celebrating with a Build-A-Bear birthday party because his request for all his friends to come to his party really exceeded the maximum capacity of our house.

Grab your tissues... and READ MORE at Toddler Times!

10 Phrases Toddler Moms Dread

We all have those words and phrases our kids know that we absolutely hate. Not because they are bad words… but because they are downright annoying, embarrassing, and of course clever.

Lately in our house these include the overused… no.

Everything is answered with no.

Ben did you poop?  No…
But you smell like poop Ben… No
Do you need a new diaper… No

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My Toddlers Locked Me Out

I took on the grocery store with three children in tow on Thursday. All was fun and games till it came time to unload my mini-van.

Since we live on a semi-busy main road I escorted the boys to the house, turned on the TV in the living room and explained to them,like they had not heard it 80,000 times before that they needed to wait in the house, safely, while I unloaded the car.

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'Tis The Season for Toddler Christmas Crafts

Christmas time is here again, and now that December is upon us I am in fully blown panic mode, as well as feel like it is totally acceptable to blog about Christmas crafts and all kinds of wintery and seasonal fun.

I didn’t want to push Christmas stuff in October like all the stores in my local area. Nothing like walking into our Sears in the mall two weeks before Halloween and seeing their entire Christmas shop open!

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Dear Holiday Shoppers

I braved the mall this weekend. With two toddlers, and a baby… and of course a couple friends.

But the problem was the actual people who were in the mall. I am used to a crowded mall, I often take my kids there on the weekend to run out energy in the little kid play area. It is free, there are other kids to play with, and they love it. Even though those places are germ breeding grounds

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Enter to Win a Chuggington Interactive Railway

Do you toddlers love trains?  I know mine do, and since Chuggington came out on the Disney channel it has been their favorite. They never really got intoThomas and Friends, and when Learning Curve offered to give our readers at Toddler Times one of the hottest toys this season!

Just in time for Christmas!

Our boys had the chance to play with the Chuggington Interactive Railway last weekend, and I was impressed with it all the way around.

ENTER TO WIN at Toddler Times!

Thanksgiving Crafts for Toddlers

Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner I thought I would share some of the crafts I found this past week on Pinterist, which we are going to be making for Thanksgiving to put on our dinner table at Grandma’s house.

Thanksgiving has always been big for our family, when I was younger my mom would let me get dressed up in my pilgrim apparel, and set the table at my Grandmothers house. Don’t judge… I loved dressing up! Heck I still do!

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Old School Discipline or Child Abuse?

Washing your mouth out with soap… I bet you that you were there at one point in time as a child. Soap, hot sauce, whatever could get your parents point across when words were no longer enough right?

Last month I saw on the news a woman who was arrested for putting hot sauce on her son’s tongue as a form of punishment. While I didn’t look at the actual full story, or follow up with it… I started to wonder what the line is these days when it comes to parental discipline?

Chime in with your opinion at Toddler Times!

12 Ways Husbands Are Like Toddlers

It wasn’t until the other night I realized how much my toddlers and husband are alike.  Just like how Moms and their toddlers are alike…

It was actually kind of comical at first, and I tried to coax my husband into making a video blog post about it, with me and the kids. But unfortunately for me, and my readers… he doesn’t care for the video camera, or really being in the limelight.

There went my golden idea!

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Toddler Clothes Set Bad Example

Here we go again right?

Clothes for our kids which encourage gender stereotypes to live on our society. One we have been trying to break for women… well forever!

Now Gymboree is jumping on the bandwagon with their Smart like Dad and Pretty Like Mommy t-shirts. Yet in the same line of clothing there is nothing along the lines of handsome like Dad orintelligent like mommy.

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5 Mom Wars We Can Live Without

Every where I turn today someone is trying to start a new mom war. No joke!

Breast vs Bottle
Cloth vs Disposable
Crib vs Co-sleeping
Organic vs Non-Organic
Crayons vs Markers
Company vs Company

The list is seriously endless. No  Joke! I can’t even wrap my head around some of the seriously simple and stupid things people will fight over on the internet.

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20 Ways to Save Your Sanity Moms!

Motherhood is not glamourous, or a walk in the park. It is stressful, trying, and of course extremely rewarding.  But sometimes we really need time to ourself.

I have noticed that the moms who don’t routinely take time for themselves, like myself, often find themselves on the verge of a white padded room with a serious loss of sanity!

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Coolest Toddler Game Ever

Do you have a ton of family members like I do?  If you do this is probably a super smart idea to help your toddlers remember who everyone is.

If I had a dime for every aunt, cousin, uncle, or great aunt my kids came in contact with when it comes to the holidays, I would be rich. No seriously, like a billionaire, because apparently my grand parents were so damn bored, they could only make child, after child… no joke!

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Michelle Duggar Makes Me Crazy

Two toddlers… that is all… justtwo… and I am on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Then there is Michelle Duggar. She has about a half dozentoddlers in her house and she is just floating on in life without a care in the world, peaceful as can be with the most calm demeanor on planet Earth.

If I was in her boat, I would have gone bat shit crazy ages ago.

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Top Toddler Toys This Holiday Season

Christmas is coming, and because I am always last minute when it comes to presents, I am desperately trying to get all my shopping done before the end of November.

Screw black Friday, screw all the week of Christmas sales, I just can’t do it this year. I did it last year and I almost went directly off the deep end! No thank you! Especially since I have three kids to buy for this year!

Who thought being Santa would really be this much stress, and work? I certainly never did!

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10 Fall Crafts for Toddlers

Even though it is snowing in the north east, and every department store across the country has their Christmas decorations out for sale… it is still fall!

And it is going to be fall for another month and a half so why not embrace it and do some fall themed crafts with your children instead of rushing right into the Christmas stuff right?

Well, at least that is what I am desperately trying to do in my house but I am also really wanting to really take my Christmas decorations out to get them up.

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