Parenting Perspective + Experience

From the Cincinnati Moms Blog family to yours... We are taking the day off to enjoy the holiday with our friends and families. We hope you are able to spend some time playing, loving, enjoying and celebrating our amazing country with...

You can’t fight fire with fire, or so they say. This common phrase came to mind the other day when I was watching my nearly four year old boy starting to smoke out his ears. Not literally, of course,...

Great Parks' Wet Playgrounds Great Parks of Hamilton County has three wet playgrounds. Parky's Ark in Winton Woods: 10245 Winton Road, Springfield Township Parky's Pirate Cove in Miami Whitewater Forest, 9001 Mount Hope Road, Crosby Township Parky's Wetland Adventure in...

I am not the sort of person who usually solicits parenting advice. By that, I mean, at no point in my life have I ever had a conversation in which I asked anybody for insight about raising my children...

You’ve wished for, prayed for and anxiously waited for the day your baby is born. It’s a magical moment filled with love, tears, memories and inevitably the beginning of guilt. At least, that was the case for me. I...

When my first daughter was born, we had no plans to bed share. We had purchased an Arm’s Reach Co-sleeper to have her right next to our bed. She had other ideas. After laboring and birthing her, all I...

Today I failed. Big time. I should have known it was destined to be a doozy. By sunrise I had stepped on no less than ten Legos. A good day never begins like that. I have had people tell...

I started Mommy and Me dates after the twins came into our lives and I already had two. Once everyone was of talking age and getting their own little personalities I noticed the need for my attention when they...

In previous installments of this series we have talked about methods for helping our children cultivate healthy and passionate reading habits. With some support on our end, it shouldn’t be too hard to teach our kids to love and...

They sang “Andi’s Got Big Buns” to the tune of “Janie’s Got a Gun” from the back of the bus. Shriveling down in my seat, I was a seventh grader at rock bottom. The nursery rhyme had it so...