Find Gifts for Dad on Mom Central’s Father’s Day Gift Guide!

Still stumped for a gift for Father’s Day? My father is the hardest person to shop for; every holiday I find myself scattering all over the place trying to come up with something to give my father that he will actually like. Sure, while I know he will “like” anything I give him because I’m his daughter and all, it’s still a wonderful feeling when you’ve finally found the perfect gift that you know that the giftee is going to be over the moon about! And now not only do I have one difficult man to shop for, I have two!

So if you’re in the same position as I am, you definitely need to check out Mom Central’s Father’s Day Gift Guide! It is full of a bunch of really great …

Help Name the Comforts Brand FireFly & Win a $10,000 Scholarship to Help Fund Your Child’s Education

Comforts has always provided the very best baby formula possible for your baby, containing all of the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients your baby needs for his/her baby’s first year; the formula is fortified with iron and contains the lipids DHA and ARA, the two lipids associated with infant’s mental and visual development. Best of all, Comforts baby formula contains many of the ingredients found naturally in mother’s breast milk, so if you are a new mother who would prefer to breast feed and need a break from nursing and pumping due to sensitivity, if you have trouble lactating, or if you are weening your baby off of your breast and onto formula, this is the perfect formula. Comforts is fortified with choline, contains lactose, and contains the nutrients that help develop the immune system, all of which are found naturally …

SiteWarming for New Parenting Information Site, Mamapedia

It’s 2:00 a.m. and your three month old is crying…a lot. You’re a first time mother, and while you’ve got a ton of questions, you called your mom at 2:00 in the morning last night about that crazy looking diaper, so you’d really like to get through this one on your own.

But where can you turn?

Mamapedia is a new parenting information site that takes the wisdom of thousands and thousands of moms and makes is searchable! You can head to the computer with that screaming infant in your arms and type,

“Why does my baby cry so much at night?”

And this is what you’ll find – an article about a mom who asked a question titled “Sleepless Nights with a 13 week old” and the responses of forty-four moms. You can read those forty-four answers while bouncing your baby, and …

Stop Training Sitters, Put Everyone on the Same Page with By The Book

Every parent will continually be faced with the decision of who they are going to leave their children with when they need a sitter. Many parents have experienced “parent guilt” when leaving their children with a sitter, but there is a great book out that will eliminate any discomforts, doubts, and second thoughts you may have about leaving your children with anyone.

Karen Berg’s By The Book puts parents, their sitter, and their children all on the same page by outlining your child’s daily routine and how they should react to certain circumstances. It is a book full of adorably illustrated pages with the space you need to fill in everything your sitter needs to know about your family and taking care of your children. It comes equipped with pages about how to handle …

Get Your Kids Interested in the Environment

Remember the Dr. Seuss book The Lorax? We may have had no idea what it was about when we read it on our own, but if you had a parent who read the book to you and explained that it was about the steadily decreasing environment or you figured it out as you got older. I still love that book and it is now more than ever before where we really need to pay more attention to the world around us. More importantly, as we become more and more passionate about the environment, we will want to instill those same priorities in our children and the most exciting and fun way to do that is to share the love of books.

Children learn a great deal from books, including books that are read to them when they are younger. There are a …

Ditch those Nasty Nappies

Did you know that babies go through about 6,700 diaper changes? Did you also know that for every 10,000 babies who use disposable diapers, we are filling up 113 dump trucks by the time those babies are potty trained? And all of those dump trucks have one destination–Landfills. Depositing 6,700 diapers per baby into landfills and letting Mother Earth become rich in waste and disease is horrible for the planet we all live in.

In 1998, the Environmental Protection Agency gathered information and statistics on disposable diapers and found that diapers alone made up 3.4 million tons of waste and makes up 2.1% of the United States’ garbage. That is a whole lot of dirty diapers! While those statistics were taken over 10 years ago, the recent baby boom we have experienced within the last three years will prove …