You Can Easily Homeschool Kids, Babywearing Mom

As a babywearing mom and connected parent, you can easily homeschool kids. Let me explain:

Any good mom is homeschooling before she sends her kids to school, whether she has thought about it that way or not.

You are speaking to, singing to, and playing with your baby.

You are exposing them to colors and shapes and sounds and textures. ‘

You take them on walks and to parks, and shopping and the zoo.

You spend time at the library reading, or pulling books off shelves, or doing baby/toddler library activities.

You point out birds and airplanes overhead. You take them to the beach and help them put their toes in the sand, and in the water.

They get older. You teach them to look both ways and hold your hand before crossing the street.

You still take them to the zoo and the park and the beach and the store. You show them how to choose apples that aren’t bruised. You teach them the names of all the different animals and where in the world they are from.

You read more books. You play hide and seek. You get them art supplies and do crafts or puzzles together. You bake cookies.

All of that is homeschooling.

It is age appropriate exploration. It is child led pursuits and a deepening understanding of the world.

If you do some of those things with your little kid, I can help show you how you can easily homeschool kids by continuing to do these kinds of things as your child gets older year by year and end up with a well educated child who hasn’t had their love of learning dulled and is set up to be able to follow their own dreams as an adult.

Would you be interested? Want to know how this could be possible?

Join my HOMESCHOOL LIST for more info.

Valentines Day with Small Children

How to Celebrate
Valentines Day with Small Children

3 Tips in this Blog Post Will Change Your Valentines Game:

1. easy Amazon Prime gifts to order in advance
2. trade babysitting with a friend
3. dates when you can’t get a sitter

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How to do an Easy, Free Advent Calendar of Books

Advent Calendar of Books

What’s great about the Advent Calendar of Books besides how easy it is and that you don’t need a budget, is that it can be customized to your family’s seasonal traditions very easily.

You can use Religious books, Santa stories, Winter books, or a combination of any appropriate books that you like! Read More

Best Natural Baby Gifts for Baby Shower or Christmas

7 Best Natural Baby Gifts on Amazon

Natural baby gifts are always appreciated by new moms and by babies, too. If mom already has a fair trade woven baby wrap, here are some fun natural baby gifts she is sure to appreciate!

I tend towards baby minimalism. But when I do get a natural baby toy, it better be aesthetic, quiet (no electronics, please), and get a lot of use or it’s got to go!

Get Away from Electronic Toys with this Natural Wood Clutching Toy

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Side Gigs and the Single Parent

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As a single parent, money is always on your mind. Even if you’re earning a comfortable income now, as the sole provider you can’t help but worry about what would happen if you lost your job. Whether you need extra cash to make ends meet today or a back-up plan for peace of mind, a side gig is a great way to increase your family’s financial security. Read More

A Perfect Mother’s Day for Mom’s of Young Children

For moms with young children, a perfect Mother’s Day will have a fun activity with the kids which is fairly (and unusually) relaxing for mom.

Followed by some luxurious time away from kids.

If you do this right, I guarantee she will remember this day forever! Read More

5 Reasons Star Wars Fans Babywear

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Avoid New Baby Jealousy – 5 Tips for a New Sibling

Avoid New Baby Jealousy

5 Tips for Helping Older Sibling
Adjust to New Baby

As you welcome and celebrate your new arrival, the last thing you want is a jealous big brother or big sister.

I’m giving you 5 simple and specific ways you can avoid new baby jealousy when your toddler or preschooler becomes a big brother or sister: Read More

Parenting Wisdom Summed Up in 5 Words

Parenting wisdom, short and sweet.

30 pieces of parenting wisdom in 5 words:

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Grow a Real Grass Easter Basket (So Easy)!

Plant REAL GRASS in your Easter Basket!

This is surprisingly easy, I promise you.

All the items you need are easy to find but if you don’t have them to hand and want to order some, I have provided links below to make your search faster (and if you buy through my link, I get a small affiliate fee): Read More

15 Ethical Easter Treats for Your Easter Basket

Ethical Easter treats mean the kids are happy while we use our dollar to vote for the kind of world we want them to grow up in.

I’m making it easy for you to keep Easter ethical, and a little healthier, too with:

• Easter chocolate that was not produced by child labor
• all natural Easter candy with no artificial ingredients
• spring themed toys and jewelry so your kids don’t go crazy on too much sugar!

Plus, these 15 suggestions are all found on Amazon to make Easter shopping easy and painless for you! Read More

10 Best New Baby Books for Children

Preventing New Baby Jealousy Part 1

The 10 Best New Baby Books
for Children

Reading these new baby books together is one of the simplest things you can do to prevent jealousy over the new baby.

Reading books together helps in two ways:

1. Builds excitement for the coming baby and
2. prepares your child for the changes coming so they won’t be a shock.

Small children like routines. They like knowing what to expect.

A newcomer will soon be getting most of mom’s or dad’s attention. That is going to be a shock.

It’s a BIG change in routine. Read More

Admire Your Own Parenting

Most of us are our own harshest critics.

And no wonder – we struggle daily to keep our patience under the duress of our children’s inexhaustible attentions and simultaneously rail against anyone who loses patience with our dearest darlings.

But what would happen if you shifted from being your own critic to becoming your own cheerleader?

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Enter My Babywearing Costume Contest 2017

CLICK HERE for the 2019 Babywearing Halloween Costume Contest!

Creating a costume that plays off the baby carrier is one we babywearing parents cannot resist! We get to show off our ingenuity and our babywearing skills; we get to reap all the benefits of keeping baby content and comfortable in the extra excitement of Halloween night; and now there is the added incentive of entering your babywearing costume in my contest to win a free woven wrap!

Over the years that I’ve been running this contest, I have amassed what I believe to be the greatest collection of babywearing costumes known to the internet. Read More

Rainbow Baby and Pregnancy Loss

Guest Post by Kita Wolfe for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month

When asked about our current pregnancy and why we call her our rainbow baby, I can’t help but wish that I could just walk away sometimes. But most of the time, I’m open and welcome to sharing a small part of how this baby came to us. A simple “we lost babies before her, she’s our rainbow after the storm!”, is usually how I leave it until they ask more questions. 

Often, I’ll run into another mother who has recently lost a pregnancy and feels comfortable with sharing that information after I share mine. It makes me want to bawl.  Read More

Mama Miti – Babywearing Children’s Book

Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya is both a children’s biography of the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize and a work of ecological and humanitarian inspiration that shows children that you can make a difference one person, one family, or one tree at a time. Read More

Normalize Breastfeeding For a Healthier World

The push to normalize breastfeeding isn’t intended to embarrass or minimize the ways that any parents feed their babies. There are important reasons to normalize breastfeeding: breastfeeding can improve health in babies and mothers, can decrease infant mortality, and can ease poverty.

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Christmas Wrapping (Not Just for Presents)

Babywearing families navigating the Christmas Holiday :

Sometimes Santa needs mom’s help to make toddlers feel safe. Wrapped newborn baby for the win!

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