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Dagmar Bleasdale Featured on Colloquymoms.com

August 30, 2009

Kat Robertson, who blogs at For the Love of Chaos, contacted me and asked me to write a guest post for her other blog, Colloquy Moms, which she writes with her friend Shynea Hunter from PennyPinchingDiva. She gave me free reign — write anything about breastfeeding. How could I resist?

My article, 3 Invaluable Tips for [...]

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8 Tips on How to Ease Children’s and Parents’ Preschool Separation Anxiety

August 16, 2009

Landon started preschool six weeks ago, and by now he really loves it. After preparing him, and myself, extensively for his first day in preschool, he did great and didn’t even cry when I left. On the first two days I stayed for 30 minutes to make sure he felt comfortable, and he waved at [...]

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Tips for Moving with a Toddler

August 2, 2009

We are moving, and I am super exited. The new place will have a big yard for Landon and much more living space. The kitchen is a lot bigger, so my goal is to spend more time in there. Maybe I’ll actually cook once in a while? As luck will have it, our new neighbor [...]

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How to Prepare Your Child for Preschool

July 2, 2009

Can you tell that we were in a hurry? Look at that hair…

Landon is now two years and eight months old, and today was his first day in preschool! Since our neighbors moved away, and with it my wonderful babysitter, I had to enroll him in preschool to have time to do my work from [...]

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Child Safety and Childproofing Tips

May 28, 2009

I learned today that Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter died on Tuesday after a tragic accident. She slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console and was suffocated. I feel just terrible hearing this news, and it brings to light again that we as parents can’t be vigilant [...]

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Four Tips on How to Maximize Space in Small Homes

May 27, 2009

When Don and I and our 11-months-old son moved into a small apartment in 2007, I knew I had a challenge on my hand. The apartment was only about 700 square feet, if that. After we moved in, I realized how small the place was after vacuuming for the first time. “Honey, I only have [...]

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