STEM Activities for Kids, Twins +1, and Practical Parenting
Best Sleep Tools for Twins
Let’s talk twin sleep.
Those first newborn days with multiples can be tough. Having one baby makes sleep scarce, and you have twins.
There is a lot you can do to get your twins sleeping better, even at just a month or two old. Parents need sleep just as much as newborns, so it is important to help your little ones get the sleep they need.
There are tools you can use to help your babies and you rest. These are the best sleep tools for twins.
Why preschoolers need STEM.
I’m into doing science with kids. That’s pretty clear.
I do lots of STEM activities and learning activities with my kids. (You can find a lot of them on Instagram!)
I’m a huge STEM nerd and I actively encourage all parents to do more STEM learning with their kids.
But why? Why do the STEM subjects matter so much?
And how? How do you help a child learn about science, technology, engineering, and math before they are even in elementary school?
Ice Cream Playdough: The Best No Cook Playdough
How do you make the best playdough?
To me, the best homemade playdough is the easiest playdough to make. And you can make an awesome homemade sensory playdough with just two ingredients.
There are lots of playdough recipes out there, but I wanted a homemade play dough recipe that didn’t require any cooking. This non cook play dough can be made in less than 5 miutes, but your children will play with it for a long time.
Here is how to make ice cream play dough that will provide a special sensory STEM treat for your little ones.
Potty training twins.
It’s one of the things I feared most in my time as a parent. Even during my twin pregnancy, I thought, Shoot. I’m going to have to potty train twins.
It isn’t just the twin thing, I was kind of scared to start the potty training process with a singleton too. But to train twins? Two at once? Yikes.
So I did the only logical thing.
I put it off as long as possible.
I didn’t even think about potty training, I denied I was ever going to potty train my twins, and I planned on a life with diapers.
Unfortunately I couldn’t live that way forever. So as I put big girl panties on my twins I put on my own big girl panties with them and got it done.
Here are my twin potty training tips (from a mom who fears potty training).
Twin Discipline: How To Punish Just One Child and Not the Whole Family
Mothers of more than one child know the challenge of disciplining just one kid in a group of kids. Twin moms especially.
How do you discipline one twin and not the other?
Sure, on the surface this seems like a silly question. Just give one the consequence and not the other. But individual consequences can impact an entire family.
When you have young children close in age, or in our case the same age, they spend a lot of time together. It can be hard to dole out punishments that don’t impact both twins. (And after about a
Here are four tips for disciplining just one child at a time, even in a group setting.
