Welcome to parenting, momma.
Now the real texts arrive.
I haven’t tested this, but it caught my attention, so I decided to pass along the information.
The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition is offering free, health education via cell phones. When parents sign up for Text4baby, they will receive a weekly message timed to their child’s due date or birth date for their child’s first year. Topics will range from nutrition to immunizations to birth defect prevention.
The texts are offered for free through a partnership with many cell phone plans.
When phone users …

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced recalls of some Graco- and Simplicity-brand cribs on Thursday.
About 217,000 Grace cribs made by LaJobi were recalled because of issues with entrapment and suffocation. There have been nearly 100 reports of drop-side incidents, including hardware breakage and drop side detachment. One minor injury was reported. The model numbers can be found on the government website, www.cpsc.gov.

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All Simplicity full-size cribs with tubular metal mattress-support frames have been recalled because the mattress-support can collapse and cause suffocation and strangulation. One infant death was …

While checking my Yahoo e-mail, I came across this story about families and happiness and I thought it was worth sharing.
It made me think about how I am doing “raising happiness” in my own house. So far, I think I have pretty happy kids. They love to be home. They love to read. They love to play outdoors.
I think they’re happy.
Then there were two questions posed in the story:
1. When are you happiest with your kids?
2. What part of the normal day with your family routinely causes suffering?
So I thought …

Believe it or not, it’s time to think about summer. I realize we’ve just had days of cold, rainy weather (with more on the way). I know the calendar only says February.
But I’ve already received e-mails from an organizations that runs summer programs. And I checked a few district Web sites: they’ll begin registration next week.
So soon I’ll have to make some decisions for my soon-to-be kindergartner and soon-to-be second grader.
Do they go to summer camp or summer school? Do I add in science camp? Music lessons? Can any family …

I found a new online resource for moms (well, new to me!). It’s called Mamapedia. I just spent a few minutes browsing through it. Users can post questions (such as, “How do I keep a house with five children clean?”) and other users give advice.
It was fairly easy to use. There are some areas that require registration, but it looked like you could search through reader/user content easily without doing that.  Anyone who has the time might find fun and useful ideas at this Web site.

This news came into the Tribune last week: The Arizona Dream Foundation’s Dream Scholar program was launched at the Dream Dinner last week. During the event, a call to action was issued to the Foundation’s sponsors and supporters.  This call to action – what the Foundation calls ISOS (Internships Strengthen Opportunities for Success) – asked companies, small businesses and other supporters to commit to its six-week, $2,500.00 high school internship program.  Companies who commit to the program and become involved with student interns will pay the students directly, as to replicate a …