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7 Things I Wish I’d Known Before My Child Started Kindergarten

July 20, 2015 By Lauren

7 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My Child Started Kindergarten

This post contains affiliate links. I will earn a small commission on any purchase made at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support! When the new school year begins in several weeks, I will send my second child off to kindergarten. For some reason I thought it would be easier the second time around, […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Things I Wish I'd Known Tagged With: child, kids, kindergarten, school, teacher, teachers, things I wish I'd known

13 Milestones I Wish I’d Known About

April 19, 2015 By Lauren

13 Milestones

We all know the milestones to eagerly watch for: First smile, rolling over, first steps. We wait for them to happen and carefully document them when they do (well, for the first kid at least). There are some milestones, though, that no one thinks to tell you about. They are just as momentous, in some […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: kids, milestones, motherhood, parenting, things I wish I'd known

Eight Things I Wish I’d Known About Breastfeeding

March 30, 2015 By Lauren

Eight Things I Wish I'd Known About Breastfeeding

For most things in life, experience is the best teacher. We won’t truly learn how to do something until we, well, do it. Even so, there are things about certain experiences I would have liked to have known ahead of time. Things that would have, at the very least, mentally prepared me for what was to come. […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Informational, Parenting Essays, Parenting Humor Tagged With: baby, breastfeeding, motherhood, nursing, things I wish I'd known

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