Mommy's little helper.
parenting
2 Playground Patrol: Advocate Self Defense in the Sandbox?
Poll
3 Do You Keep Your Kids in Sight While at the Park?
Health
4 Lil Tip: Work Out at the Park by Pushing Swings
Health
5 Playground Patrol: Make Kids Run Laps For a Movie Treat?
parenting
6 Playground Patrol: When Is a Child Too Old For the Park?
parenting
7 Moms Are Big Bullies on the Playground
Poll
9 No Entourage, Do Only Children Get Bullied More?
Toys
10 Missing Bitty Baby Signs Posted at Park For Safe Toy Return
parenting
11 Do You & Your Tot Apologize to Keep Peace at the Playground?
community
12 Lil Community: Who's to Blame?
Is all fair in love and on the playground? This post was submitted by an Anonymous reader in the A Place to Vent group. Yesterday, I received a call from another mom that I had recently met on the playground. Our pre-school-aged kids found each other through a pick-up game of baseball over the Summer and had been playing together almost every day. According to the mom, yesterday's game was no Read more
No mom wants her child to be considered the "punk" of the playground, but does that pressure lead to a lot of unnecessary apologies? So many personalities and parenting styles converge in the sandbox that there's bound to be someone who shakes things up. To keep the calm between adults and children, do you ever (or ask your tot to) say sorry for something when it's not really warranted? Read more
Every child loses a toy now and then — a shovel in the sandbox or a jump rope on the jungle gym, but sometimes searching the playground and turning the house upside down doesn't unearth the object. For one little girl, misplacing her beloved and pricey baby doll meant taking action! She and her parents printed and posted missing person flyers all around the park where the plastic babe was Read more
When your wee one hits the playground, who has his back? A mother of one recently told me that her sweet 13-month-old daughter has been bullied at the park, even by kindergartners. Thinking back, I remembered my girl being knocked out of the slide line and having sand thrown in her eyes on a couple of occasions. Then my son was born and things changed because when my daughter sat in the Read more
Glamorous Gwen Stefani took her kiddos to the park for some swing and slide time yesterday. The hands-on mom carted Kingston's bike and lil Zuma on her hip like any other mama of two would do. She also sported her signature rocking red lips and perfectly blown out blond 'do, probably because the shutterbugs are always snapping pics. Fifty-six percent of LilSugar mamas admitted to dolling up in Read more
There seems to be one in every mommy crowd. The playground patrol who feels it is within her right to monitor the actions of children, parents and caregivers. This mama's lil ones have never had a non-organic treat or been placed in front of the boob tube. Deborah Copaken Kogan, a New York City mother of three and former war photographer, takes on these Type A mums in her new tome Hell Is Read more
Parents want to keep their tweens off the streets, but is there a time when they should stop taking them to the playground? Yesterday, we went to a neighborhood park. The structures at the location are intended for young children. At 5 and 2-years-old, my daughter and son can tackle any obstacle offered from climbing the curved bars to walking up its steepest slide. The place was empty until Read more
There's some interesting stuff that happens in the sandbox. The other day while at the playground with my kids, I heard a mother tell her children (ages 6 - 10) to get off the swings and run laps or they would be late for the movie they were set to see. As they ran, she told them to go faster or they wouldn't get a treat at the theater. The tall and lanky youngsters, who looked none too Read more
Keep your arms and kids in motion at the playground! The other day my daughter and a friend wanted to fly like fairies in the baby swings and needed someone to help them get air. Using my left arm to push my daughter and my right to push her friend, I got a rhythm going until about 20 minutes later when they finally tired of the activity. When we were leaving I noticed my arms were a bit sore Read more
My jaw dropped the other day when I heard one mother tell another that she lost track of the woman's son (a kindergartner) earlier in the day (while he was in her care) at the packed park. She found him after a few minutes, but then the two laughed about it as they ate lunch while their tots played clear across the park and out of sight. Do you keep your eyes on your kids at all times in crowded Read more
