Parenting
Written on April 23, 2013 at 4:49 pm, by Megan
Along with all of our paid sponsors, friends, and affiliate partners on our sidebar, each month we’re going to give a spot to a cause of our coice and are going to share that cause with you. As Uncle Ben said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” We want to … Continue
Written on March 28, 2013 at 11:50 am, by Megan
We’ve been covered in snow for the majority of Spring Break and it’s the last week of the quarter, so Jake has had to work late most nights. Needless to say, I’ve had my work cut out for me keeping it fun for Eliza and Jonas and keeping myself sane. … Continue
Written on March 13, 2013 at 2:32 pm, by Megan
A few weeks ago, Eliza had her very first kid-centered birthday party… almost two month after her actual birthday. But it took us awhile to be ready after Christmas break, and we had to post-pone because of snow, so we’re okay with that.
Eliza wanted a Harry Potter theme, so … Continue
Written on February 14, 2013 at 10:11 pm, by Megan
Okay, I have the best Valentine’s Day story about that die. Eliza brought that home with her valentines from school! It was in a bag with a lot of other tiny goodies, so I KNOW that the parent just grabbed a bunch of Valentine’s stuff and didn’t read it. Which … Continue
Written on February 10, 2013 at 1:03 am, by Megan
Today was full of a bunch of casual, serious-matter conversations with seven-year-old Eliza, and I realized that we’ve never really written about a huge aspect of our parenting philosophy before.
We answer questions honestly.
That sounds simple, but it is actually really difficult. Kids, especially really inquisitive kids like Eliza, … Continue
Written on December 4, 2012 at 2:30 pm, by Megan
Okay, I don’t really hate hate Santa Claus, but the way we Americans do the whole St. Nick thing is a little ridiculous. The story that Santa will bring you presents (and not just presents: mountains of presents) if you’re nice causes poor kids to internalize that they’re naughty. I … Continue
Written on October 19, 2012 at 2:56 pm, by Jake
We’re currently doing the whole cloth diapering thing with Jonas, and we had a few questions on how we’re planning on potty training him and how we went about it with Eliza.
First of all, we’re no experts. We’ve only done it once, and Eliza wasn’t fully potty trained until … Continue
Written on October 12, 2012 at 2:18 pm, by Megan
We’ve talked a bit about cloth diapering Jonas before. If you want some background information, you can read about our cloth diaper cleaning process, what we use, and why we started using cloth in the first place.
You’d think that would about cover it on things to … Continue
Written on September 21, 2012 at 11:15 pm, by Megan
…and it went something like this:
But Jake says we have to take him to someone who can cut in a straight line tomorrow.
Written on September 11, 2012 at 2:23 pm, by Megan
We started making baby food for Jonas when he was six months old. We always planned on blogging about it, but somehow it’s more than a year later and there are no DIY Baby Food posts here on the Nerd Nest. A reader question reminded us that we should probably … Continue
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