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What Are The Essentials When Preparing For A New Baby?

If you are getting ready to welcome a new baby into the world, then you want to make sure that you are as prepared as possible. You don’t want to be one of those people who leaves everything to the last minute, and then you’re rushing around trying to get everything that you need. This is just an extra layer of stress that you really don’t need, and it’s easy to avoid. Instead, just make sure that you get all of the essentials with plenty of time to spare. What are these? Keep reading down below to find out more.

How Bottle Warmers Can Help Make Happier Babies and Parents

As we are all perfectly aware of, babies have absolutely no respect for your time or gratitude for inconveniencing your life in general. They sleep up to 16 hours a day, they expect you to change and clean them, and then, they have the temerity to wake up in the middle of the night demanding warm, delicious milk with barely any notice to bleary-eyed parents. Of course, it has to be said, babies are just about the greatest thing in the world, and give parents validation of their entire existence. So you could say it’s a fair trade-off.

4p is what I got from my son!

This afternoon, my son came home and ran upstairs. So I went up too. Seeing him empty his money box, I thought to myself what is he up too? Is he saving up to buy toys or maybe Skylanders? About 5 minutes later, he shoved it up to my face with a tiny written note and 4…

Was she too young to have an admirer?

Last month, I was pushing Ms C in her pram walking towards the car park after picking her and Mr K up from school. A young handsome looking boy (roughly aged 8, from the same school as my son) approached me with his sweetest smile. He came to tell me that Ms C is very pretty. I was pleasantly surprised by the boy’s confidence and chatted to him for a few minutes. Ms C couldn’t be bothered by him though. She is a very proud little girl who has mastered the art of being a little madam.

Since then, each time when we walk past each other, he will peek into the pram to see Ms C. Today, I saw him again running in front of us, paused and had a quick look at Ms C before he left. Hmmm…should I start to get worried?

Subconsciously my mind started to wander and caught myself judging him by appearance, his family (his mum looks like a nice posh lady and she was pushing a Stokke Pram) and what car they are driving! But hang on a minute! I must be mad to be thinking of choosing my future son-in-law! I am not ready to deal with this just yet.

Ms C is only 3 years old and she has a boy admirer. It’s great to have male attention but from a motherly point of view, I think they are far too young to have this attention. Which poses the question – what should I do when Ms C starts receiving attention from boys when she begins reception where there are older boys who want to hold her hand?! Should I tell her to ignore any boys? Then at what age do you start allowing your children to have relationships at school? Or do you lay down the law until they finish uni?

My friend told both of his girls are not to have any relationships till they are in their 30s! Part in jest but part being a concerned father. Do any parents here have such dilemmas?