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20 Moments That Make You Realize You’re a Mom

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Mother's Day is just around the river bend -- and what better way to mark the moment you became a mom than by traveling back in time to revisit each milestone in your adventure? While the kids make presents, your partner preps Sunday morning brunch and you celebrate all the ways those little hands and... read more

Birthday Spotlight: August’s Amazing Animal Cupcakes

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Attention moms of critter-loving kids! Take a look at these too-cute-to-be-eaten DIY animal cupcakes. Birthday Kid: August, age 3 Cupcake Details: August's mom is a pretty amazing sculptor! She crafted these marzipan cupcake toppers -- by hand! -- into colorful flamingos, alligators, snails, ladybugs, whales, mice and more for his science-themed birthday party. Where to... read more

Why Potty Training My Daughter Is Making Me Cry

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My daughter, who turns two next month, recently started the process of potty training. This is happening much earlier than I expected. Potty training was a long, drawn-out process with my older son and every time we thought we were making progress, we'd take three giant steps backwards. So when my daughter started... read more

Is Antibacterial Soap Safe for You and Baby?

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There are probably no good two things that go together like motherhood and antibacterial soap. Seriously! Moms (and dads and grandparents and babysitters) use the germ-killer to take care of just about everything in the home and in the kitchen.  In the past, we never had to think twice about using it on our hands... read more

7 Important Lessons I’m Trying to Teach My Toddler Early

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One of the most important qualities I wanted to make sure my now teenager daughter and I had with each other while she was growing up were honesty and trust. I raised her with manners and morals -- important values I think that all children should have. And now, raising a teen and a toddler,... read more

Bumpie Buzz: Khloe Kardashian Says She’ll Try Hormones to Get Pregnant

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Does Being Born in the U.S. Make You More Likely to Have Allergies?

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A new study published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics concluded that children living in the United States are more likely to have allergies than children born elsewhere but now living in the United States. Researchers involved in the study examined data from more than 91,600 children under the age of 18 who... read more

Laughter and Perspective: The Keys to Surviving a Child With Autism

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This is the fourth and final installment of Danica’s series on her son’s Autism diagnosis. In her first post, The Moment Autism Changed Everything, she shares how the autism diagnosis changed her family’s world. Her second post, Avoiding the Autism Diagnosis: Ignorance Is Not Bliss, takes us through coping with the... read more

4 Ways You and Baby Should Celebrate Screen Free Week!

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From April 29th to May 5th, we're celebrating Screen Free Week! The annual celebration, marked by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), encourages families to turn off the screen and turn on life! The CCFC created Screen Free Week as a creative response to growing public heath concerns toward children's... read more

The Funniest Baby Commercials of All Time!

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Take a break from your hard working Thursday schedule and sit back, relax and get ready to literally laugh your rump off. Today is the day for laughter, fun and a little bit of sweetness mixed in there, too. So basically, we're bringing you the funniest, the coolest, the most hilarious baby commercials Mother Earth... read more
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