Toddler Parenting Tips
Help Your Toddler Welcome Their New Sibling
Welcoming a new baby home is exciting, but toddlers may not be so thrilled. Whether the toddler at home will like the new addition is a common concern. How do you explain to your child there will be a new baby to take care of that everyone will need to help care for? Sammy’s mom…
Read MoreAre Crazy Toddlers Normal Toddlers?
If you have a toddler at home, you’re probably sleep deprived and just this side of crazy yourself. But maybe it will help you survive the phase if you know crazy toddlers ARE normal toddlers. The best advice I ever heard about parenting toddlers, was “Just try to keep them alive.” I laughed until I…
Read MoreProtecting Your Toddler’s Health
Toddlers Get Sick Toddlers get sick. All of us do, but when it’s our child, we lose sleep worrying over just how serious their illness is. There are lots of sources and opinions on when to take your toddler in for medical care. Since your pediatrician is the best trained source familiar with your toddler’s…
Read MoreWhy Toddlers Laugh
Need a Good Laugh? So Does Your Toddler. In general, toddlers and infants love to be silly, and they absolutely love to laugh. According to Dr. Gina C Mireault, understanding “why toddlers laugh” provides insight into toddler thought process around the world. Regardless of culture or language, children learn to laugh in the first four…
Read More5 Benefits of Reading to Your Baby
March is Book Reading month, but what does that mean to you? We’ll cover five benefit of reading to your baby that may surprise and delight you. Last fall, we listed our favorite books, but now it’s reading month, and there are more books to read! Stories you are reading to your baby teaches them…
Read MoreToddler’s Fun Learning Activities
Fueled by Sammy’s Milk goat milk formula, your year old child has an incredible capacity to learn. A child’s brain develops at a faster rate between birth and three years old than at any other phase in their life. Studies show a toddler’s brain forms 1 million neural connections per second, twice as many as…
Read MoreHow to Make Toddler Routines Fun
From the moment babies crawl, then walk, then run, they crave independence and control over their own selves. I really want to offer choices, but worry about the ones they make. Luckily, there is a way to make toddler routines fun with the limited choice game. Best of all they each give your toddler a…
Read MoreValentine Fun With Toddlers
As I write this, Valentine’s day is only two weeks away! Though even babies need time outside, the weather doesn’t always make that workable. I started thinking about indoor fun with to share with babies and toddlers instead. Here are some fun activities I thought would kick off your valentine fun with toddlers and baby…
Read MoreHow to Safely Prepare Formula
Are you measuring your baby’s formula accurately? Safely prepare and store formula, keeping your baby healthy.
Read MoreToddler Winter Fun, Safety Tips
If you live in a northern state, especially in the Midwest or northeast, winter is definitely here. Brrrr! So maybe you already have decided to just stay inside with your little one until daffodils pop through the snow, or maybe you’re waiting for memorial day. If your child is warm and safe indoors, why go…
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