Baby Care
$500 For BabySitter Background Check? Will You Do It?
There is a new service called the Nanny Track which does background checking of your potential nannies for a fee of $500+. For that much money, any parent who would like to get to know their caregivers better can get information on her driving records, her bank information including credit history or bankruptcy records, a [...]
Zyrtec Chewable Tablets Pulled Off Shelves
Zyrtec Chewable Tablets, an allergy medicine for kids, have been pulled off the shelves of drugstores according to the Consumer Ally. The pull-off is not a result of a product recall, however. Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which distributes Zyrtec, has been besieged with a lot of product recalls in the last year. But [...]
Achieving Successful Potty Training
One of the frustrations I’ve come across as a first time parent some million years ago was in potty training my son at about 2 1/2 years old. As with most parents, I tried doing every trick in the book. The first few weeks of it were really challenging to the point that my husband [...]
Baby Safe Cribs
I raised our son using a drop side crib and meant no untoward incident with it. It’s actually a pretty convenient invention since you can put down one side of the crib and reach out to your baby without straining your back, stomach or muscle. Some decades after it has been invented and this product [...]
The “Cry-It-Out” Method
There’s been a debate going on regarding a new method for handling babies when they cry. This new method suggests letting the baby cry it out, instead of parents or caregivers picking them up and attending to them. This supposedly does away with babies growing up to be fussy and dependent. The method teaches them [...]
