Habits are like tomatoes — growing good ones takes a lot of work. You have to plant, grown, prune, feed and then you can finally harvest the reward. Whether your child’s habits are good or bad depends on you. Here is a plan from the 1940s for how to give your kids good habits. How […]
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I really love using vintage schedules. They are so precise about the goals and the actions you take to get there. It’s a lot of fun! I have read the Babywise series, Gina Ford, and Tracy Hogg, but all of the advice they give is just vintage mid-century parenting advice, repackaged for a new audience! This is the vintage schedule for preschoolers that I am using for my youngest children.
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Before I had kids, I skipped a lot of meals. Yeah, I know that ALL THE EXPERTS talk about how bad that kind of thing is, but I just didn’t feel like eating breakfast and lunch. But then I had kids. And you know what? APPARENTLY, KIDS NEED TO EAT LUNCH EVERY DAY. And the
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It has been brought to my attention that I have not been posting my baby schedules! I intend to remedy that starting now. Baby #8 is 8 months old, a good transition time to start posting schedules for him again. So, although it has been a while, here is a little update on how I
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The first baby step for any vintage housewife is to get up earlier than anyone else and take some time to fix herself up. Getting up and getting dressed is the most important step because it does 2 things: it focuses on self-care, and it sets the tone for the whole day. Why You Should Get
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In the 1940s, Babies came with instruction manuals! Well, not really. But the parenting books often included long marvelous lists and ideas and instructions for doing your best for your baby. And many of those instructions involved play. Vintage Advice For Raising Babies In the 1940s, mothers weren’t expected to entertain their babies, but they
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Are you SO DONE with potty training? It is seriously the hardest, most involved thing to get a baby to switch from a diaper to a potty. Why does it need to be so hard??!!?? Fortunately, somewhere along the way, I found my vintage parenting book, and it had a step-by-step method, with ages to
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Baby #8 is two months old already (heavens above, how time flies)! As we move through his first couple of years, I will continue posting about vintage baby care and schedules. For now, his schedule shifts a little bit each month. I have scooched him to a 4-hour feeding schedule, and next, we will be
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Do you struggle with a morning routine? Especially with kids? The struggle is real! I used to despair that I would ever be able to get my home and my life running smoothly. It wasn’t until I started reading vintage books, trying to figure out how the 1950s housewife did it, that I realized she
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Just the word schedule might make you cringe. After all, sometimes it feels like you just follow your toddler around all day cleaning up messes. In particular, if you follow attachment parenting or gentle discipline, you may have heard that a schedule will squash his spirit and make your days as stolid, regimented misery. But
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