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Our preschooler gets sick quite often, studies indicate nearly 10 colds a year is average for school-age children, if you are looking for a safe and effective way to relieve your child's symptoms check out these ideas from triaminic.com.

There is also a quiz to take to help you decide if it is a time to send your child to the doctor, this could be especially handy for first time parents or parents who worry whenever their child is sick. Don't worry you're not alone, according to a survey conducted for Triaminic^®, nearly 83% of parents worry they sent their child back to school too soon!

Read on for useful information to help you make the right call on your child's next sick day.
Consider keeping your child home if he or she:
* Has a fever of 100.4 degrees or higher
* Has been vomiting
* Has symptoms that prevent him or her from participating in school, such as:
o Excessive tiredness or lack of appetite
o Productive coughing, sneezing
o Headache, body aches, earache
o Sore throat*
*A minor sore throat is usually not a problem, but a severe sore throat could be strep throat even if there is no fever. Other symptoms of strep throat in children are headache and stomach upset. Contact your pediatrician as your child needs a special test to determine if it is strep throat.
Keep your child home until his or her fever has been gone for 24 hours without medication. Colds can be contagious for at least 48 hours. Returning to school too soon may slow the recovery process and can unnecessarily expose others to illness.
Please note, these tips should not take the place of medical advice from a doctor or pediatrician. Parents should also be aware of guidelines specific to their child's school.
The flu is serious! Call your pediatrician at the first sign of flu symptoms, which typically come on suddenly, including:
* High fever
* Chills
* Head ache, body aches, ear ache
* Nausea, vomiting
* Dry cough
If you're unsure about the best way to treat your child's cold or flu, ask your school nurse, doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare provider.

Click here for Cold & Cough Resources to learn more about how to prevent the flu and get more useful health tips, along with a downloadable sick day guide. To save money on your next purchase of Triaminic® Thin Strips, small dosages of medicine in strip form for children over age four, please click here.

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I just received this in an email from Pullups© and thought I'd share it here. If you have a child that is potty training, this is a great opportunity to win a big kid room makeover as incentive and a fun way to keep them motivated!

I know when we finally trained our oldest son, he was nearly three. We finally encouraged him by getting him excited about going to "Fun Camp"...which was a three week program at a nearby My Gym© for kids. He really looked forward to it and enjoyed the time he spent there. The only way he was going to attend was to finally get potty trained. So why not help your big kid get motivated and enter to win something in the process!

Time to get into the potty time groove! Learn the dance craze that has every Big Kid^® moving and shaking to the potty. Then grab your "Mom-cam" and enter your video for a chance to win a kid's room makeover. Get all of the details here.
—Your Friends at Pull-Ups^® Brand

Potty Dance!
Say farewell to diapers, hello potty training-it's the Potty Dance! Cool new moves, a chance to win big for your Big Kid^®, eBlasts to your friends and more. Check it out!

Make Potty Training Fun

What makes the Potty Dance such a hit, is exactly what can help make potty training easier—turn up the fun! Mom/author Jen Sanger has ideas to do just that in our feature article. She's got tips to help keep a sense of humor during potty training. Plus, even more ways to make potty time fun time for your Big Kid^®.
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©2008 Patricia Garza

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My sons are so sweet and cute, giving me lots of kisses and hugs before daddy puts them to bed...it is so hard not to snuggle with baby...weaning is the hardest thing about breastfeeding.

When I first began nursing my oldest, I struggled and cried in the beginning wondering why something so natural seemed so hard. Through the help of the lactation consultant and determination I was able to nurse our oldest until he gave up nursing on his own at around seven months.

Now that we have our second child, I have chosen to nurse him as well. The nursing on demand and from the start went easier than it did with our first son, however the weaning is not going as easily. While I had hoped to nurse our first son until he was a year, I have not had that problem with our second son. He is nearly two years old and not yet willing to self-wean, unless my husband is home and I can go in another room. Otherwise, if it's just me and the boys, my baby wants mommy time for naps, bedtime, or snuggle time.

It is so hard to say no or to feel like I am denying him his mommy time and comfort, yet at the same time my husband and I feel it's time to start weaning him. After all having my body back and my time back is something I tend to miss after nearly two years of nursing. Yet, at the same time it's a love- hate feeling because this will be our last child and I hate to feel guilty about not giving him mommy time especially when he's crying for me and my dear husband isn't home to help. So when my husband isn't around, baby gets his mommy time. However, as he gets older I realize it only gets more and more difficult to wean him and I am not one to nurse until he's six!

I know many people continue to nurse their children until the child is ready to self-wean or by the age of four is common in some parts of Europe. The average age for moms to stop nursing babies in the US is about two years old, while the pediatricians recommend at least one year.

What are your experiences with weaning? How did you finally end it with your last child? Please share in the comments.

©2008 Patricia Garza

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Succesful WAHMs are bad mommy's

Ok - maybe not all of them, but I sure as hell am.

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Seriously though, if you try and convince me that you are able to keep your house clean, interact with your children effectively, not keep the television on all day, plus you’re the most successful mommy on the block with your business…

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Jen at badmommyblogger.com wrote the post above and I had to share it here because I can relate to her so much in this post. While I never claimed to be a supermom or great mom, I do the best I can to try and find time for me and my interests. I also hope that in the process the time I am spending on my blog or networking online I am able to contribute financially to my family in some way. While I am not a professional blogger or full-time work at home mom, I find I spend a lot of time online, especially when my husband is home, because I enjoy it, always have and always will. Twitter of course doesn't help with my Internet addiction...but the fact that I enjoy technology and finding new sites is another story. Either way I feel like a bad mommy many times throughout the day and work hard to make sure I spend time with my kids. However, there are times I need mommy time and they need to learn independence...so I will leave the tv on or ask them to play nicely together while I have some time out. This doesn't always go smoothly, but if I don't take my mini time outs by five o'clock I am ready to pull my hair out.

How about you? Do you find that you feel like a bad mommy because you need time outs while you are at home with your kids? Do you feel like you don't spend enough time interacting,teaching, cooking, cleaning and engaging with your kids while you work at home? Share your experiences and ways you cope.

©2008 Patricia Garza

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Support Mamas Time Out and Little Bytes News in the 2009 StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Competition

Little Bytes News started online in 2005 as a place to share parenting resources and parenting stories and articles, along with offering shopping resources and family friendly party supplies and gifts. Since 2005, a social network for moms and talk show called Mamas Time Out were added in 2008, featuring special guests, authors, moms, coaching and parenting experts.



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Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.

Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure.Gonzalez came in and cut the umbilical cord with scissors, then placed the baby in a plastic bag, and the bag in a trash can. 

Williams' lawsuit offers a cruder account: She says Gonzalez knocked the baby off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. The baby's umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out. Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

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Labels: abortion, awareness, babies, controversial, health, law, pro-life

Have you read the book?​ Now see the movie​.​.​.​and get the sound​track​.​.​.​a great​ girls​ night​ out movie​ for you and your frien​ds.​ Take a mamas time out and enjoy yourself or go on a date night with your husband or significant other.

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A United Nations human rights treaty that could prohibit children from being spanked or homeschooled, ban youngsters from facing the death penalty and forbid parents from deciding their families' religion is on America's doorstep, a legal expert warns. The next step in the State raising your child. Other countries that have ratified this treaty have done some pretty terrible things with it. For example, in Belgium, if your child is born and the doctor considers it 'deficient', the doctor can choose to terminate your child without your consent up to the age of 12 months. This is just one example.And the madness continues...every day I read another story like this and find it hard to believe we live in the US. What is becoming of this country and the world when the UN wants to dictate how we raise our kids? How do you feel about this and how much control should our government have over our children?

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