Ages + Stages

Your relationship with your daycare should be a partnership. A partnership that works together to enhance and support your child's learning. My partnership with my boys' daycare has been evolving with time. Our partnership has involved breast milk policies,...

  Privacy, privacy. . . Who needs it? Not me! That’s because I’m a mom of three. But the number doesn’t matter, it’s being a mom that makes this true. Somehow everyone else, (including dads), are immune.   My time in the bathroom, is no...

Before my first born made me a new mom, my husband and I did our best to be prepared. We attended parenting classes, prepared the nursery and every other thing you can think of under the sun.

Throughout my years as a speech-language pathologist working in a large public school system, I observed dozens of daycares around the Omaha metro. Every daycare was different, yet it was the same: the biggest area of frustration for daycare...

I was vaguely familiar with autism growing up because my older brother was developmentally-delayed. However, the term autism wasn’t as common as it is in the current day. I got a job in college as a behavioral coach for...

Potty Training Day 1 4:57pm “I don’t like this. I’m putting dis away. I’m closed! I’m not going potty! It’s bad.” We are officially potty training our last kiddo, and I hate it. It’s the only “last kid last milestone” that I...

Since they were infants, my twins have spent their days being cared for by someone other than myself or my husband. Both my husband and I work outside the home, which means our boys are spending on average ten...

I never really knew the struggles of feeding children until I had my own. Even the kids I watched from time to time when I was younger didn’t seem to have any issues with eating. The infant stage seemed...

Fairyland is real. The fairy garden craze became super popular when my twins were about two years old. My mom, who has a reputation for going overboard, found numerous fairy garden creatures at a garden store for her home garden....

I blinked once, then twice, and my little miracle turned two. I was seriously emotional about this turning of age because well, my "baby" was more of a little person then a "baby". Growing way too fast with several...