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Baby Shower Ideas Home > Baby Shower Planning Baby Shower Planning - Tips and Advice on Planning a Baby ShowerBaby shower planning can be as much fun as the event itself. However there are a few details most baby shower hosts need to nail down at the outset. Here are some helpful tips for anybody who is planning a baby shower for their special friend or relative. Who should host the baby shower? According to tradition a non-relative should host the baby shower. Baby shower planning can be handled by co-workers, friends, members of a church group or anybody else who would like to act as host. However these days it is common for a sister, mother, aunt or other relative to host the shower, if they so wish. So, anybody can host the baby shower, as long as it's not the mom-to-be! What guests should be invited? You might want to ask the husband or family to help with the baby shower planning by making up a guest list that includes everybody close to the mom-to-be. Once you have these details check with her just to make sure that nobody has been forgotten. Often, if it's not a firstborn child the guest list is restricted to very close friends or people who weren't at the first baby shower. How should the guests be invited? You can call the guests, send out written invitations or even invite guests via e-mail. Your baby shower planning should include a theme and this can form the basis for your written invitations or e-mail invites. Written invitations add a nice touch and act as a handy reminder too. Buy them pre-printed at card shops or stationery stores. You could also try making them by hand. On the invitation include details of the party theme, where the mom-to-be has registered, directions to the venue, or any special item you want the guests to bring along. Your baby shower planning should include a date by which time all guests should have RSVPd. If they haven't you might want to give them a call and remind them. Should men be invited or included in the baby shower planning? These days baby showers are more informal and realistic and many are co-ed. If the mom-to-be agrees there is no reason that special friends and the dad-to-be should not be invited to the party. If you choose to include the men, make sure that the games and food are suited to both men and women. Where should the baby shower be held? Anywhere there is enough space! You might choose to have it at your home, indoors or outdoors, at a restaurant, church hall, the office or even at a picnic area. It really is up to you. Try to choose a venue that suits the different age groups that will be attending the shower. These days baby shower planning is on the informal side and a cookout is a perfectly acceptable option. So be sure to check out our pages about Baby Shower Themes, Baby Shower Favors, Baby Shower Invitations, and Baby Shower Food Ideas elsewhere on this site. Baby Shower Planning
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Firstborns really do have to break-in their parents
Filed under: Siblings, In the news  I've been feeling kind of bad for my three-year-old lately. This year, my older kiddo picked up a lot of new activities, most of which toddlers are not invited to participate in. She started preschool, began a dance class, and this spring, started playing soccer. On Saturdays, my three-year-old whines, "I don't like soccer games." She's tired of being a tag-a-long.But while I'm feeling sorry for my baby, Newsweek tells me that it's my firstborn that gets the short end of the stick. It's a commonly held tradition that firstborn kids have to "break in" their parents, and therefore have to live with stricter rules and harsher discipline than their younger siblings. Recent research backs up this folklore; older siblings are less likely to make mistakes because they are used to being held up to higher standards, while younger siblings are more likely to be risk takers. Trying to apply these findings to the people I know, I can't really find a pattern. I know a lot of firstborns who are risk takers (and mistake-makers), and plenty of family "babies" who live comfortably inside their comfort zones. Yet, among my own children, I can see a hint of it. And looking at my parenting techniques, I just might recognize a little of this in myself. What about you? Do you think you were treated differently by your parents because of your birth order? Do you see that in your own parenting?
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Filed under: Preschoolers, Weird but true, Mealtime  It is always a good idea to wash fruit thoroughly before eating. This gets rid of dirt and any other residue that might be on the surface. Here's another good reason to wash fruit before eating: the water will flush out any tarantulas that might be lurking. This helpful hint is courtesy of Kevin Hudson, a father from Elmswell, Suffolk in the United Kingdom. He was rinsing off a bunch of grapes before serving them to his four-year-old son when out crawled a dazed and confused 2.5 inch spider. Hudson captured the spider and took it to the vet, who in turn found it a home at Abbey Aquatics and Reptiles. "It's just a small Chilean Tarantula with a lovely black abdomen and pink zebra markings on the back," Colin White, of Abbey Aquatics and Reptiles, said. A spokeswoman for the store where the grapes were purchased says this is the first time they have had a report of a spider in the grapes. She says it is unlikely that the spider hitched a ride from the grape's origin as they "have strict procedures in place to stop this sort of thing from happening." Nevertheless, I am officially freaked out by grapes now.
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Filed under: Teens & tweens  Your baby bird left the next last fall. Sure, it was hard. But over the last nine or ten months you've stretched your wings and found that life after raising kids really does exist. Just when you start to get comfortable, though, maybe even consider redecorating a corner or two of your now larger nest, comes a knock at your door. Your baby bird has returned; it's summer vacation. Continue reading School's out -- and guess who's coming back home?
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Filed under: Toddlers, Preschoolers, Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, Health & safety  After a long, cold winter, the days are getting longer and the weather is finally warming up. Depending on where you live, this time of year can be quite pleasant. Not too cold, not too hot. It's just right for opening up the windows and letting the fresh air blow through. But open windows can be deadly hazards to children and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission wants parents to be aware of the dangers. Since April, CPSC says there have been 18 incidents of children falling through open windows. Sadly, two of those incidents resulted in the deaths of small children. "We are issuing this warning so parents will take the necessary steps to prevent these incidents from happening," says CPSC Acting Chairman Nancy Nord. Tips from the CPSC for keeping kids safe when the windows are open:
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments PD*Poll: Little Leaguer gets benched for mom's no-show
Filed under: Kids 5-7, Fun & activities, In the news  A seven-year-old Boston area Little Leaguer recently got benched for two games in a row because his mom failed to show up for her volunteer time in the concession stand. The two-year-old rule requires that parents pitch in at concessions because it's the primary revenue for the league. The boy's mom had to go to work that day, despite knowing about the commitment for months, and so the boy missed out on game time as a consequence. Continue reading PD*Poll: Little Leaguer gets benched for mom's no-show
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Filed under: In the news, Education  What's the easiest way for public schools to save money? How about to not have school in the first place? That seems to be the growing trend, anyway. Our own local district will be shutting down on May 30th this year, a full two weeks earlier than usual. Last year, they took a three week winter break to save money on heating.But a Minnesota school district is taking it a step further and eliminating Mondays from their schedule. The move will cut 23 days from the school year and save the district $65,000, mostly in transportation costs. The district even says it won't be turning on the heat for those who use the buildings after hours. This is Minnesota, folks...bring a sweater. And a space heater. I don't want to be a killjoy to all the kids and teens out there planning their future three-day weekends, but I'm not sure that these drastic sort of cuts are the best way, educationally at least, to cut costs. An hour tacked on to the end of each school day doesn't translate to 23 days of instruction. That said, cuts like these are what keeps school districts afloat and people employed. You know what they say about desperate measures, and for many school districts, these really are desperate times.
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$15 off $200 purchase # Expiration: 5-31-2008 Kohls - 15% off when using Kohl's Credit Card
15% off when using Kohl's Credit Card # Expiration: 5-20-2008 Playing parenting by ear
Filed under: Just for moms, Babies, Toddlers  I am one of those people who thinks it's awful when parents dish out unwanted advice to other parents, or even worse, non-parents, and yet sometimes I can't help myself. The other day I was horrified to find myself telling someone "if there's ONE thing I've learned about parenthood, it's that nothing is predictable! So keep that in mind: just when you think you've got your kid figured out, he'll change EVERYTHING!". Which, god, shut up, self, because I should clarify that the person I was speaking to did not in fact request my One Most Useful Piece of Parenting Know-How, I just up and offered that all on my own, and also, ALSO? I can't even follow my own advice, because even though the whole business of unpredictability is in fact true, I fall into a DAILY trap of thinking I know what the hell is going on in my own household and guess WHAT, I NEVER DO. Hoo, sorry to go all CAPS LOCK on you, I'm just still reeling from a challenging couple weeks with the kids, where there was illness and then there was crankiness and the baby's started slobberingly gnawing his hands (no teething! no teething allowed! You're only 3 months old!) and wildly gagging on his fingers and I keep thinking he's hungry when he's tired and vice versa and my toddler has been oscillating between extreme cuteness and downright putridness and I feel like I've been plunged into jungle warfare lately, like where are the next round of bullets coming from, NO ONE KNOWS. I guess it's mainly the baby's presence that makes everything extra crazy, because although Riley's mood can greatly change depending on such intangible factors as the number of oxygen molecules in the room and the position of the planets, he at least sticks to a basic routine of napping/sleeping/eating. In comparison, Dylan's the real chaos factor. Will he nap in short, frustrating intervals, or will he lapse into a comalike state for three solid hours in the middle of the afternoon, causing me to worriedly hold mirrors in front of his sleeping mouth? Will he milk-bong about a thousand ounces at this feeding, or will he daintily sip a few swallows and then loll his tongue out, totally distracted by the beige wall paint? Truly, even when babies start to develop schedules they are still a (pooping) mystery wrapped in a (spitup-coated) enigma. So even though I clearly need to STFU when it comes to offering Helpful Little Parenting Guidelines, here's the ONE thing I KNOW is true: I am totally winging it over here. Seriously. I've been at this job for two and a half years and I swear it just gets more humbling every day. What about you? Do you feel pretty confident as a parent, like you've pretty much got your stuff together -- or are you winging it too?
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