Learn about how to seamlessly integrate your baby into mealtimes, and help prevent future picky eating with baby-led weaning. Disclaimer: This is not medical advice! Please consult with your pediatrician before beginning baby-led weaning. When my first baby turned 4 months old, well-meaning friends and relatives asked me if I had started giving him solids…
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How to Communicate Effectively with Your Child’s School
Whether it’s your child’s teacher or the hanhallah, there are effective ways to handle anything which may come up. This is it! Yom tov season is over, and now we are in it for the long haul at school. And not always does that long haul go so easily. As a volunteer at the Nefesh…
What’s the Difference Between Tantrums vs. Meltdowns
Knowing the difference will help you determine which tools you’ll use to handle it. Your husband comes home and you are EXHAUSTED. Done. Finished. And you need that to be understood so you don’t totally lose it. When your spouse walks in the door, you launch into a long list of things you have done…
12 Ways to Take Charge of Your Children’s Bedtime
For the past month, it’s been hard to keep a healthy schedule. But starting today (or last night) you probably want to tackle that lack of structure and achieve a healthy schedule. No matter the ages of your family members, or your specific struggle, there’s lots of tips from sleep experts here on BCP. One…
SBT: The Best Way To Unwind After A Long Day
You’ve never heard of SBT? Nope, it’s not a new therapy! It’s Scheduled Boredom Time. Here’s why it’s important. Ask any Mom (or any kid!) out there, being bored is the worst! Polling the mothers, bored means annoying siblings, kvetching, and the dreaded, ‘There’s nothing to do!’ And polling the kids, bored is a feeling…
How A Flexible Routine Can Cure Spring Fever
Your kids have spring fever, but there’s still time left in the school year. Here’s how a flexible routine can help. I’m one of those structured moms. I keep after-school and evening hours pretty organized during the school year. Kids come home, eat snack, homework and play, baths and showers, dinner, then bed. I find…
Is Your 11-12 Year Old Son Overbearing? It’s a Stage.
And we knew it’s helpful to know if you’ve never experienced it before. When one of our friends mentioned that her son had been acting difficult lately, we all grinned and nodded. Of course. We hated that stage. Been there, done that. We all have big kids and little kids and we’ve seen all the…
How Changing One Simple Word Changes Everything
Have you ever felt stuck on the ‘I have to’ train? The busy frum woman has endless things to do, every single day and it’s far too easy to get bogged down. Read on for my favorite trick. ‘I have to get dinner in the oven, it’s almost time to eat and I have nothing…
Four Myths About Getting Picky Kids to Eat (and What You Should Do Instead)
Do you have picky eaters? Kids that won’t touch veggies? Or perhaps, more simply, non-eaters? Sit back and don’t worry. This is how to deal with it. Myth #1: Mealtime is just going to be stressful and frustrating no matter what I do. Every night, dinner with your kids leaves you exhausted from the sheer…
Your ADHD Child Can Clean Her Room. Here’s How
“My daughter makes such a mess and NEVER cleans her room! Her ADHD is out of control! How do I help her?” said an exasperated client. “How long does it take before you finally can’t stand the mess anymore and you just clean the room yourself?” was my response. “Oh goodness, I yell at her…
