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10 ways to save the Christmas tree (baby)

January 27, 2012
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In one of my usual out overseas online said Bishop a post asking you to parents as they saved (if there ever were) their Christmas tree from an attack of small gattonatori. Here are the responses of over 100 mothers, summarized in 10 tips anti-collapse tree-saving (and save-baby!).


The most interesting is surelyeducation‘s. In practice, we teach that the tree does not touches, and you didn’t touch.
Ok.
In principle, I absolutely agree. If like me you are a fan Tracy Hogg to know that she supports exactly the same thing: kids are smart people by nature, understand perfectly your sense of what communicated them. Things prohibited without explanations are much more interesting than explained calmly, and so disobedience is an exciting challenge. Then it is up to you to be able to communicate with them effectively, accompanying them to new knowledge and new skills, rather than impose, and they will learn.
Basically I tried d apply this method with my daughter and I have to say even with excellent results, but this does not mean that we cannot always be present, that we cannot always be calm and patience to explain (especially to a 18mes-enne that captures exactly fly, maybe …), that we cannot always be so “perfect” (uhthat ugly word!) as the books would teach us to be.
And then via workarounds‘s!


The vast majority of mothers used modular enclosurea, one of those used for delimiting a zone game, or as a gate to close access to the stairwell. Basically the equivalent of a box, that only leaves the child on the ground instead of inside the box. For this is often used even with randicelli children to limit their scope but leave them a suitable surface to move and play.
There are many brands and models, especially those of modular, as Bambino World in order to assist the individual elements one after another and create a perimeter customized to our needs (and availability) of space, or a middle way between Gates and box, asEasy Box the of OkBaby.


However, there are children that the fence is a whisker: the rise, tugging, and we know even go below. Another valid solution is then exhaust them. The children quickly tire of repetitive games, and on this point method “detach and attack”. You use only unbreakable, and decorations for a few days you can grant them to remove them from the lower branches of the tree, and maybe even play with them, the evening before going to sleep, to put them back on the shaft. After a few days, the game has lost its appeal, and decorations you will enjoy a well-deserved peace.


Alternatively you can try to give the child a Christmas tree, small, concise, with some unbreakable decorations small (perfect example rubber toys “from bath” wedged between branches directly. Or opt for a tree for the whole family but without decorations, such as those optical fibresat.


Photo comes from Historyofthechristmastree. comAncora best decorating the tree with the old method anti-crisis, eco-friendly, reusable, or (depending on the age of the child) biscuits Corollas with threaded hole, directly on the branches, dried orange slices, drawings made by the child itself and cropped, and so on, who has more (pantry) and so forth.


The most essential moms have found a solution to two dimensions: one vinyl sticker sticker in the shape of a Christmas tree, plate, indestructible and removable. Have a piece of the wall completely free of the sticker is daunting, and then folds on the closet door, or on the door. The result, however, is as “flat”:-/.


 

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Foods for children, best industrial or fresh?

January 25, 2012
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Recently was spread a leaflet for families in which they highlighted the advantages of industrial foods for specific childhood nutrition of children. Products safer, more controlled, more nutritious and healthy. To recommend these types of products was directly.
But after a few days in a statement said that the increased quality and safety of the baby food industry compared to natural products are not scientifically proven and then dissociates from Fimp’s recommendations.


At this point I wonder: “Are pediatricians against paediatricians. To whom should we trust? “


In the brochure States that: “The 50% of the fresh fruit contains pesticide levels not suitable for infant feeding” and that: “the 35% wheat in Italy contains residues of pesticides too high for infant feeding.” For the Acp data reported by Fimp on release to support the validity of these claims are largely debatable.
1) intend to reassure and encourage all those parents who, around the sixth month of life, use complementary feeding at the request of the child, using foods that take themselves;
2) reaffirm the importance of adequate information to parents for a healthy nutrition for the whole family and undertake to make print ad hoc campaigns;
3) encourage a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and plants for the whole family, including when it is possible to produce short chain and in this case often also organic (also through participation in cooperative purchasing groups, so-called Gas).
4) believe that industrial foods intake affects their food culture of different peoples and different families through delegated to third parties ‘ experts ‘ even the simple act of nurture his own son;
5) undertake to continue to fight to raise the food safety agencies to improve more and more laws and regulations, together also associations to consumer protection;
6) believe that the actions of advocacy to put safe food at table within the largest chapter of the protection of the environment, public health priority. The nterventi should be ‘ politicians ‘ and must fall on the entire population, including of course the most vulnerable groups (including foetuses and embryos);
7) emphasize that the promotion of the food industry for children penalizes less affluent families, and worsens the quality of the environment through the multiplication of packaging waste and their disposal and transportation through the territory.


Finally, the Acp believes that, under the general principle of transparency, “documents of this kind involves – as happens in the world – the need to declare the source of funding at the base of information campaign”.


I believe that for mothers who do not have time to prepare meals and vegetable soups, baby food and reassuring to know that industrialized foods are equally good and healthy for children. In addition to extremely comfortable!
We want to talk about the fruit jar when you’re around? Never without!


My pediatrician, when I started weaning Marco told me: “Madam, if you know the provenance of the food prepare well everything, but if you must take the fruit from the supermarket, then it is better than in the jar, is more controlled!


Homogenised meat made at the time by MOM. And the fish? In Puglia … fresh!


Now that I’m older, I cook a lot on weekends (sauces, meatballs, meat broth, etc.) and put in the freezer. During the week wonder what want to eat, scongelo jars, et voila, the dish is ready. And I am sure that they eat well … or almost!
The keeps? Also one made with tomatoes grown by grandparents!! You do in summer and is eaten all year round …


 

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What can we do when the baby is crying and grieving?

January 23, 2012
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With older children you speak. If they accuse their pains we explain, make us understand what is wrong.
But with a newborn. He’s not talking!
The only way that has to communicate a need, a need is to cry. A weeping exhausting, uninterrupted that often, especially in the first days of life, manda panicking moms and dads.
Will hunger? Thirst? Cold? Hot? May Experience? Did the bisognini? Or just wants a massive dose of pampering Extras?
And if not even taking the small arm, cullandolo, making him feel the warmth stops crying? What to do? What is the right attitude that the parents should be used?


What do I think?


I think it’s easier said than done.
With the first child is still very inexperienced. And weeping exhausting and does lose the uninterrupted light of reason to anyone, let alone the new mother who finds herself with hormones gone mad (:)) and what complicates even more when you fail to understand why so much despair.
Think about it, basically, is the first time you have to do with a guy that is at 100% by us, which we must take care … and that we do not understand. It still speaks our language …


After the first few weeks you will learn to recognize the crying, or at least I admit it’s realized (more or less)!
However, the anxiety also took over after a tot of minutes of uncontrollable weeping. So the first advice I followed partially. Or better to say was my rational side that tried to follow it! The other part of me is decidedly not.
I still remember the first and only Marco colichetta (still not sure that it was colichetta!). Luckily there was my mother to give me a hand. Marco wept bitterly on one side and myself on the other. I didn’t know what to do, I was desperate.


The second tip is pretty easy. Ok, you can do.


The third … well! Depends on what the stress factor.
We say that with the first child, with a little effort, you can stuff with wadding the environment. But with the second …


When Luke was born, my second son, his major stress factor was Marco …
I would say a “failed” from deleting

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A crib … expanded!

January 22, 2012
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Yesterday for the first time we made the crib at home.
To ask directly. A few days ago we went to buy the figurine. He chose every shepherd boy and all the other characters.
Last Thursday we went to collect the MOSS. I refused to buy it: cost 9 euros a box. Absurd!
And yesterday we finally put there all 4 to compose the work of art. To be honest two elements were constructive (I and my husband), a collaborative and one literally destructive Kallis.
It was an undertaking. We employed an eternity for a metro just crib. But the result, I must say modestly, was satisfactory.
Yesterday evening I approached the artwork to admire it and noticed immediately of new elements: a Tyrannosaurus rex that poked out from inside a cave.


I called just Andrew and I asked him: “have you been?”
And he: “Yes. You told me that Jesus is born so long ago. Even though dinosaurs existed so long ago. So … lived together! “

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Here is what are the safest car seats

January 19, 2012
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The various consumer associations, in USA and abroad, they repeat periodically testing car seats, to evaluate the effectiveness, the ability to protect our children while travelling in the car against the dangers of the road.


Needless to say the car seat is an obligation, a legal obligation (resulting from the European Directive 2003/20) and a moral obligation. As the famous slogan of campaign promoted by Parents Grow and from other websites: “If you love him, tie!“.


All car seats, to be placed on the market, must be approved, or undergo manufacturing and performance criteria expressed by the European directive in force. Every child must bear a label indicating mandatory upgrading of legislation whereby the child is approved: the most recent is R44/04.


Although all approved, some seats have features that better help to protect children in the event of any accidents. I have long observed the results of tests and I made a rather precise idea of what makes the difference.

If you compare the results of tests, even among the various vintages, you’ll notice that almost all the seats they get the better score are equipped with a so-called “anti-shock cushion” front. The great advantage of the pillow front, used instead of safety belts in five points, consists of more space for the child’s body in the event of impact. The five-point harness, in fact, hold the child effectively, but for this cause the thrust forward due to impact focuses almost entirely on the neck. The classic “lumbago”, to understand. The pillow, instead, allows the upper body to move forward, while holding the child in the seat. The impact force, i.e., is absorbed by a surface much more, and energy disperses better, without going to weigh all on a single point (the neck).  Celebrated in this category are Cybexseats, in particular the Cybex Pallasmodel. It features a pillow front adjustable anti-crash, in order to bring it closer or away from the baby according to its growth, according to two fixed positions. With this installed cushion, Cybex Pallas is an approved car seat as Group 1 (9-18 kg). In this conformation, the child is in that seat reclining in the headrest! the latter, in fact, is adjustable in 4 positions well.
When the child reaches a weight between 15 and 18 kg, you can remove the cushion and base, and Pallas transforms into a model approved for 2-3 groups, up to medium.
In practice, 2 seats in 1.  Similar to Pallas, and always invoice is the German Kiddy Guardian Pro. It is one of three seggiokini Kiddy equipped with anti-shock cushion, all approved as combined seats for groups 1-2-3, but in principle there is also a Group 1 seat with cushion Kiddy Energy front, the Pro. All these four seats are test winners results of product!
The Kiddy Guardian Pro has a seat reducer that can be used in two different positions: one for children from 9 to 13 kg, and one from 13 to 18 kg, so follow their growth. Eliminating the reducer and adjusting the backrest width and height of the head restraint, you switch to 15-medium duty conformation.
A plus of Kiddy Guardian Pro is to have the adjustable seat depth, so you can adapt it to the child’s leg lengthening, obviously very different in the various stages of growth.  A solution like this is that Jané adopted with the cushion Xtend reducer. It is an accessory for use with the Group 2-3 as Montecarlo Plusthe, making it so useable also as Group 1. The pillow Xtend Jané, unlike for example of Pallas, is restrained by seat belts exclusively, and not by a fixed distance from joints child: can be a bit more “counterproductive”.

Obviously the issue of the pillow front is not free of problems, above all the reaction of the child: many children have difficulty accepting being so “tucked” into limited spaceone. Often the child, especially in the first year, fails either to support the arms above the pillow, and has the lowest freedom of movement: is a price to pay to be “insured” in the event of an accident, but smaller is really difficult to explain.
Also there is the problem of to pick up and drop off the child from seat. In these models, the cushion is restrained by seatbelts in the car, and manoeuvres to drop the belt buckle and are therefore often hindered by clutter.


Another feature that is common to the winners of the test is headrest controlthe. These are the Side Impact Protection systems, side impact protection. The models depicted above, if we take the case, they are all very headrest with wrapping. This is an important guarantee to protect the head of the children in case of collision, particularly side impacts.

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How do you dress the Child at Christmas

January 17, 2012
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Today I do ‘ at fashion blogging! Forgive me if this is a post some sui generis, but yesterday I wandered in the woods as Hansel and Gretel and I found the little marzipan inside an outlet store. :-D

It so happens that I  and always we dress similarly, varying between a outfit ” engineering estate from which goes to kindergarten” for her, “go out to buy bread and to weld some tubes” for me. I often get accused of male dress, always with the usual catsuits “soiled as well so I have a closet full“. The fact is that there I doll dress, as well as I think if I had a male can’t ever to put the shirt with collar starched and the vest. Obviously we are not talking about the amount of skirts which macerated in my closet as doomed without air now. And as for the heels … what’s heels?


So yesterday I came into this shop (it is an outlet store, to tell the truth, then with all stuff of old collections in balance, but seeing as I’m “fashionable” is just fine!). And I’m in love with!
I found many heads at decent prices, designed to be stylish but comfortable at the same time.
GAPunfortunately, I visited the outlet store, do not pay me to write this post, but I speak well, because that stuff is just like me! (apart from the shoes, I must say: an indescribable amount of dancers: but how does a duenne to walk?!?)  Male outfit also made me crazy: the classic rumble revisited on a baby from newborn, while on garments from “toddler” skulls, sharks and diving planes.

Accessories are the most original collections, those little touches that enliven even my catsuits laborer! (note the Crown-shaped headband for her, and the hat with headphones from rapper for him).
For Christmas summing-up for sure, so maybe I find something a little more feminine for the Pupattola, and tollerabilmente “da man” for his friends.

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What does the couple when we become parents?

January 15, 2012
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How to change your life when you become parents? And what does the couple?
There are still a him or her and the two lovers-friends-accomplices become hopelessly only dad and mum?
I know that this theme we discussed on other occasions, but as chatter between friends.
This time, instead, I wanted to know the opinion of an expert.


Something on the importance of being a couple “even when we become parents.
“We talked about the role of Dad when a baby is born and what happens to women when they become mothers, I conclude with a reflection on what happens to the pair when they become parents”.


Is a completely normal and saline. When our puppy enters for the first time to be part of our lives, everything changes and everything takes on a form and a new meaning.


Priorities, motivation, energy, space and time, rotate all around him and of course, even as a matter of “chemistry” (continuous production of the hormone oxytocin which will remain throughout the period of breast-feeding) in new moms is all magnified a thousand times!
This time, indeed hopeful … godiamocela perche is a unique moment. But beware, there is a risk if we keep this one thing: too often, this phase extends, until it became eternal, often until our little puppy turns 18 years!
The couple turns, alien, disappears … and it becomes “just” MOM and dad! But where they go to finish this man and that woman are known, chosen, who designed, dreamed, idealised their lives together?
In my work very often see couples and families in crisis, of all ages and walks of life and when I ask them: “I told what to do when you were engaged or married or before becoming parents?” or “remembers what is that he did fall in love with her husband?”, or “when was the last time you went out to dinner alone?”, on their faces often axle empty!!!


Here’s what I’m referring to: we forget the couple! You become MOM and dad and the loving couple fades, often becoming only a distant and sweet memory.
We find ourselves only living every day with its usual problems, to talk about school, diapers or than we have angered the children, paediatricians, medicines, commitments, things to pay … and you easily forget that “we”, to see each other, to listen, and listen to him, not to mention the share as we feel us, our thoughts, of what we have inside.


Fatigue often, little time … everything makes the accomplice created this situation.


Behold care mothers, we must learn to protect, safeguard and pampered a little more that being a couple!
Two parents must provide their children the importance of defending their own spaces and their privacy, they should teach them respect for the individuality beyond the imposition of these roles must be gratified and fulfilled, the lovers United, and first of all as a couple in order to provide solid foundations that have family!
Two parents as far away as the couple, sooner or later pay the Bills somehow …
I don’t want to scare you, for charity! But just make you think ….


I, like all my colleagues dealing with psyche, wellness, couples and families, we recommend a lot on this aspect to give greater guarantees to “long term” to the family and the couple that you format.
What to do? First legitimizing this truth, think about what I told you, observe your routine, your couple, your get-together.


If you are part of those couples who realize that he “lost” something of all this, it is never too late! Treat yourself to a basic rule: take the time and space just for you, both individually and as a couple.


Do not judge or blame yourself if one evening per month, an afternoon or a day, you ask friends or relatives (or even a babysitter) to keep your child and organized a moment “by sweethearts” far from everything that is connected to the routine (so no expense, gifts for children etc.).
Rituffatevi in memory of when you were just the two of you and …. EVATEDETE from everyone and everything!
Do something fun, relaxing, you love to do …
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that then mental children suffer because they feel too your lack … you are the first to be in trouble! And this little perceived!


If you do all this with great serenity and naturalness, even your children will be accordingly! And you think, that you are doing something for them, because the state teaching something important and you are offering two parents who return home more happy, satisfied and maybe even a little more in love: and this can hurt your children! “


 

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The bedroom of discord

January 13, 2012
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In the new House there are two rooms that bidding to become the nursery a smaller, but closer to our room, the other slightly larger, but at the end of a corridor.

I-”Then I’m going to make me do the quotation for the nursery of Pupattola”.
him-”… that great”.
I-”like that great? that little, which is closer to our room. “
him-”but, we have two rooms, and you from that little?”
I-”Yes, but with the bed and a half”.
him-”Because the bed and a half?”
I-”why must she hoped to sleep alone [we now have a single room for everyone, then sleeping in our own room-ndr], and so I can keep close while you fall asleep without staying perched at the edge of the bed, and maybe read a fairy tale, and if you think that maybe ill close instead of get up n-thousand times a night and …”


him-”Aaaaaaahhhhhh! You Aprovadiziayou like, with her son in elementary school and again in his bed. “
I-”you know that the rooms are too small for two beds! When he invites the girlfriend to sleep, for example, where do we do?
him-”The Couch”.
I-”Ceeeeeerto! a six-year-old invitation to my house and the abandonment in the sofa alone! Mica will be small and then forever: I always wanted, the bed and a half “.
him-”well, if it is for that too.”


Obviously I have in my pocket the quotation for small room with bed and a half.
him-”I still prefer the big room” and has farfugliato something like is my first-born, he deserves, but I did pretend not to hear.
I-”look that will make you stand already difficult room alone, I figured if he wakes to find notices that must also pass through a dark hallway”.
him-”Yes, but you don’t have to wake up, must learn to sleep alone in his bedroom”
I-”Excuse, but recovered from poor deluded you are earned by correspondence or you made a school?”
him-”Aaaaaaahhhhhh! EC I put myself to bed, you’ll see …. “


You heard it all, right? Behold, now I have witnesses. You look at the gap.

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Bundlebean, the deck 5 in 1

January 11, 2012
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Perhaps many of you already know traveling with Leo, the online shop specialized in material for children traveling. It’s a store recently but that nato has already learned to appreciate in the net for his many initiatives and for the rich assortment of products. It is run by Chiara, a MOM online reinventatasi (also, alas, in the face of the conciliation) that puts heart and soul into his new activities.


Traveling with Leo I introduced a product that I did not know and that I was passionate as few others! Oh, if only Bundlebean I’d known a couple of years ago! thinking that I walked around with Pupattola in the pouch on the hunt for every little ray of sunshine in winter, and for that I made up the equipment most unexpected, with blankets hung upon me that falling from anywhere!


On travelling with Leo I ordered this “magic blanket”, as I call, he can do a lot of things: sa become by blanket for picnic to aprons for the stroller bag, warm for ovetto to draught Excluder for the bike seat, and (surprise!) on the cover to the Marsupium! Look here:


The nice thing is that by ordering Bundlebean I found a vibrant and efficient online shop. The products are very well described, with details on measures and materials. A good number of photos presents the product, so as to give an idea of realistic possibilities of use, and of effective encumbrance. You know immediately if the product you’re interested in is available for immediate shipment, and you have suffered a quote accurate shipping costs based on destination (very useful for those living in the Islands or on the border).
But the thing I liked most is that you can make purchases without registering, just like in a regular shop! Course register at site involves advantages, like keeping track of the orders, save addresses, etc. But if you don’t want to, you don’t necessarily know “your facts”: orders, pay and only the shipping address.

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Upside to Ultracompact HandySitt Chair (with Video!)

January 9, 2012
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When switching from milk to pappa is consolidated, we parents want to recover a bit of healthy eating habits, as that accursed godurioso and viziaccio to go out to dinner (one day I will explain, our son, who he should, because even the affair between her parents started a restaurant table!).
Then a phase of growth in which the Chair starts to go a little bit tight, but the big Chair is oversized again.
In short, whether before or after, in every family one day appears an upside to the Chair.  Today HandySittI present, the increase in wood and Minutes of metal. It is an object of class, wanted in the design and materials.
The difference you hear immediately: indeed weigh than 2 kg, a considerable weight for an object.

HandySitt can be used as the upside to chair when you go to the restaurant, dine out from friends, grandparents ‘ home, or in any other place where you can’t rely on the presence of a highchair.


The nice thing about HandySitt is that adapts to virtually any Chair provided with backrest, which means including the overstuffed chairs, yes even the grandmother. The advantage is given by the fact that rests on two legs, and anchor at back of the Chair. An adjustable strap with clip holds firm to the seat or back, depending on the model of Chair with whom you are dealing.

The distance between hooks that rising àncorano back and legs is adjustable: legs (neri) flow inside the brackets (red, pictured) in order to regain the horizontal position for baby sitting. Once you find the position, are screwed and shaking those placed two small half bracket, which block the sliding legs.

HandySitt is also  equipped and security front bar. The spartigambe connects below the seat of the upward through a clip, the frontal bar instead fits half bracket, where knobs are mentioned in the previous paragraph. This complicates somewhat the docking and undocking manoeuvres of the bar, every time and unscrew screw mechanism.


Another feature to keep in mind is that with HandySitt the distance between the seat of the child and that of the Chair is not adjustable: the effect of “foot” is very different for children of different ages, and for larger can make it difficult to move closer to the table or make less comfortable sitting due to knees too high.
Child of 12 monthson Handy Sitt baby 24 months on Handy SittHandySitt is part of a complete system for the child to sit at the table.

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