Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani decided to release this beautiful picture of their 10-week-old babe, Zuma Nesta Rock, on their websites and give the public their first peek. Which family member do you think the lil blue-eyed guy most resembles? Source
Mealtime with munchkins may not be easy, but it can be a whole lot of fun! Moms use clever tricks to make breakfast, lunch or dinner a success and one that has worked for me is to keep the surroundings interesting.
Toddler tableware may sound like an oxymoron, but with these adorable plates, bowls and silverware, your tot may be asking to sit at the table, rather than run the other way.
When it comes to carting home candy, children have a lot of options — plastic bags and containers, even noise-making plush handled pumpkins or cardboard carriers. But for moms and dads that want to save money and have their wee ones get more mileage out of their treat sacks, use pillowcases. They hold more trinkets and sweets than the other options and can be slipped under your tot's head to lull them to sleep.
Parents in a panic sometimes abandon their infants in unsafe environments. To avoid that practice and ensure the safety of the babies, many states have safe haven laws that allow moms and dads to drop their offspring off at specific destinations like hospitals without the fear of being prosecuted. Nebraska recently instituted such a law in July, but extended the age range to include all minors. And, as a result 17 children including teenagers and one from out of state have been relinquished.
"Safe haven legislation is designed to prevent infants from being left outside or left unattended," said Nebraska Gov. Dave Heinman. "Safe haven laws were not designed to allow families having difficulty with older youth and teenagers to abandon their children or responsibilities as parents."
Do you think Nebraska should tighten its terms to only infants?
I was flying and watched in both horror and sympathy, as a toddler got sick all over his mother mid-flight. As the mother heard her son begin to get sick, her knee-jerk reaction was to throw her hands under his chin in an attempt to catch it. Needless to say, this did nothing to contain the situation, but I was in awe of how calm she remained. After she soothed her tot, she quickly reached into her diaper bag for a pack of wipes and began cleaning up her child, the tray table and seat and finally herself. After stripping her son of his dirtied clothes, she wrapped him in her sweater and began distracting him with a game.
When we were deplaning, I stopped her to tell her how impressed I was with her swift and relaxed reaction. She looked at me and smiled, saying that in college, the sight of someone getting sick would have made her ill, but when it is your child, you just deal.
Have your reactions to behavior changed since becoming a mom?
Gavin Rossdale and Gwen Stefani decided to release this beautiful picture of their 10-week-old babe, Zuma Nesta Rock, on their websites and give the public their first peek. Which family member do you think the lil blue-eyed guy most resembles?
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