Homeschooling, Recommendations

Our School Year, 2015

Julie / August 29, 2015

S asked me to put together a list of what curriculum we’ve found useful, and—overwhelmed at the magnitude of that task, it finally occurred to me that probably the simplest way to do so is just to explain what we’re actually doing, and a couple sentences about why.  One caveat, this is more like “this very month,” because different kids…

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Recommendations

My favorite bouncer.

Yes, it’s another product review.  I just honestly have been so impressed by this bouncer that I had to share.   Someday I’m going to write an entry about pacifiers and breastfeeding, too, and then I think I’ll be all product-ed out. Fisher Price makes “rockers” that convert from a stationary bouncer to a sort of rocking chair for toddlers. …

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Recommendations

On swaddling and swaddlers.

(a swaddled, newborn E) So, I’ve had three little babies so far, and swaddled all of them to varying extents.  I’ve done blanket swaddles, which always make me nervous because it’s a blanket, which everyone knows you’re not supposed to have within 10 feet of a newborn, but I’ve mostly used the different swaddling products. Summer Infant SwaddleMe Microfleece, Green,…

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