Sweetness is two months shy of her third birthday and the potty training issue has been driving us insane. For the past eight months she’s shown complete interest in sitting on the potty that lead to her using it once, then none, then interest again including the “big girl potty,” then complete lack of interest […]
2010
Blogging is a great way to dispel information, share stories and images, get a conversation going, support a cause, bring attention to an issue and generate excitement. It’s also a great way to destroy relationships. I’m a fairly new blogger. I started writing in this blog’s current set up in December 2009 and went public […]
Summer vacation is half over and it’s sent me into a bit of a panic. I haven’t done half of the stuff I was excited to do with the kids while school was out. To help me get organized, yesterday I offered seven great things to do around the Seattle area before Labor Day that […]
I was plugging away at work this morning when I looked up to check the date to include on a letter. When I saw July 20 staring me in the face I had a little panic attack. July 20 already? The summer is half over. I have only seven more weeks to play before the […]
Another installment in my Positive Discipline Articles. Recently I had the great fortune of crossing paths with Amy McCready, founder of Positive Parenting Solutions, Inc. She runs a very comprehensive educational website chocked full of parenting advice focused solely toward helping parents raise capable, well behaved children with high self esteem. Amy offers a free […]
You may have noticed that little button that recently showed up in the upper left corner of Heligirl. There’s a really exciting reason it’s there. I took an amazing parenting webinar from Positive Parenting Solutions last month just before my vacation and was completely floored by all the great information available, how it was presented, […]
Our house has an unspoken rule. The dogs and cats wrote it, but the kids seem to know it intuitively and follow it to the letter. That rule is: no one pees alone in our house. Or poos for that matter. No one. Ever. Period. Gotta go? You’d better not close the door all the […]
Today is a big new first here at Heligirl. I’ve done a blog swap with Ericka from Alabaster Cow. Hop on over to check out my brutally honest post about the guardian angel who entered my life when I was a pathetically miserable “victim” of my circumstance and taught me a simple, yet infinitely valuable […]
