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Kid Birthday Parties: Guest Etiquette, Gifts, & Parent Socializing
Once your kid reaches a certain age — and especially if you’ve got more than one — you’ll find yourself taking him or her to a lot of children’s birthday parties… and as you’ll also find, that comes with a lot of funny kid birthday party guest etiquette questions and purchasing tasks. First, it means…
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What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Kid’s Friends’ Parents
How do you handle it when you don’t like your kid’s friends’ parents? What about when it’s the other way around — when your kid isn’t exactly fond of the children of your mom friends? In the past we’ve talked about finding mom friends and working moms and playdates (as well as friends with MLM businesses, which…
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Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Milk-Saver Breast Milk Collector
There seem to be a lot of breastfeeding- and pumping-related products that I either didn’t know about when my son was a baby or that just weren’t around back then. Here’s one: a “milk saver” to use when you’re nursing your baby (or if you pump on only one side) that keeps you from losing…
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What to Consider When Choosing Birth Control After Having a Baby
2018 Update: We still think this is a great discussion of birth control after having a baby — but you may also want to check out our more recent roundup of the best birth control options in 2018, over at Corporette. Choosing birth control before you were a mom was complicated enough . . ….