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Weaning Milestones And Essential Feeding Kit By Cognikids
*Advertorial Review With Cognikids* Finally we are declaring our house a non weaning household. It's one of the stage of baby and toddlerhood that can be super frustrating. Leaning to eat and drink independently is obviously an important milestone step but it's not one that can be mastered in a ...
Dear Jacob, Now You Are 3
Dear Jacob, Today you turn three, and I have no idea where the time has gone. The day you arrived you honestly turned my world upside down. You looked up at me and I knew you had been here before and you were going to keep me on my toes and boy I wasn't wrong. You have a ...
Potty Training – Our Success & What Worked For Us
Way back in August (yes that does feel like a lifetime ago) we made the epic decision to start potty training Jacob. After the nightmare that was potty training Joshua I must admit I was not looking forward to this stage in toddlerhood one little bit. However we watched Jacob ...
Potty Training 101: What you Need to Know
Potty training is an extremely important milestone for young children and parents alike. Although it's not always easy, parents need to remember that learning to use the toilet will come with time, experience, practice and a whole lot of patience from both us parents and child. This time round ...
The Potty Training Journey Continues
. We had noticed that Jacob had been showing signs of knowing what he was doing when having a wee and we knew he could hold his wee when he wanted to so with around 7 others in his Tweenies group at nursery all starting on the potty-training journey we jumped on the band waggon too ...
Starting Out Jacobs Potty Training Journey In Earnest
A little while ago I mentioned that we were going to start our potty training with Jacob but with time lacking and only a couple of indicators given by him that he was ready we decided to hold off until we knew for that he was defiantly ready. A month or so back around 7 of his nursery friends ...
A Little Swimming Update – Jacob’s Swimming Journey
If you have been round here for a while you will know that Jacob started swimming lessons last year with the help of the fabulous Konfidence team as Jacob was baby ambassador team member. We ventured to our local East Midlands Swimming Academy (EMSA Babies) class and he took to the water ...
Preparing For Potty Training With The Bing All Aboard The Toilet Train
I am not going to lie, the worst stage of baby and toddlerhood for me is potty and toilet training. Each and every child hits this phase at different times and reacts differently but what I do know is making it fun and putting in some groundwork first is a must. Recently we had the ...
How to Get your Child to Stop Sucking Their Thumb
There are many children who suck their thumb. All 3 of my children have been thumb suckers and have varied in the amount they have sucked them. Children may use their thumb sucking as a means to calm nerves during an anxious or uncomfortable situation. As a baby, your child may have used thumb ...
Toddler Separation Anxiety & Bedtimes – What Not To Do
I know all the books say that a separation anxiety is a good thing. I am aware its supposed to mean that your toddler is forming strong and healthy attachments but to brutally honest ... it's tiring, frustrating and annoying. A toddler with separation anxiety can be increasingly ...
The Transition Between Cot & Toddler Bed – The First Night
I think at 2 we have been immensely lucky to still have Jacob in his cotbed as a cot. However over the last month Jacob has been nothing short of horrific at bedtime. He no longer goes to bed awake and happy. He screams for an eternity until we have allowed him to drop to sleep on ...
How We Spent Jacob’s 2nd Birthday
OK, we all knew it was a special day, Jacob however just thought it was a normal day but with presents and cake. I love that the 1st and 2nd birthdays tend to be underwhelming for us adults. We plan, make, bake and buy in anticipation of all the birthday excitement and our kids tend to be ...
The Second Birthday Cake
There is something about birthday cakes that totally freaks me out, maybe it's my aversion to baking or the fact I am useless at fiddly things and far better with the big things like sledge hammers. However a couple of years ago for Joshua's 5th birthday he wanted a Nintendo castle for his cake ...