Happy Parents, Happy Children

I am all about having a great experience with my children (well just one baby at the moment!).  Having children is a tough gig for everyone, but if there is one thing you can control its your attitude towards it.  Which can be hard when your baby has been sick and not sleeping for two weeks and is miserable!  But studies show that if you pretend to be happy and fake smiling, it works! I love reading books about parenting and the library is an amazing resource with most of the latest books available.  Unfortunately my local library didn't have a few books I really wanted like the Wonder Weeks and also Harvey Karp's  'Happiest Toddler on the Block', so I have bought them as Kindle books from Amazon.  I would prefer actual hard books but a) I don't like clutter and b) when I bought the Wonder Weeks in hardcover I learnt that I actually wanted to read the resource when I was out on my Iphone or iPad or when I was travelling so I ended up buying it as an ebook as well.

The latest book I borrowed from the library was the Calmer Easier Happier Parenting by Noel Janis-Norton.  Turns out it wasn't a book for babies or infants but for 3yr+, but that was okay because it opened my eyes to the fundamentals of behaviour that I should start off anyway, and also validated my belief that its all about positive parenting.  This is definitely a resource I want to have in the future! The author Noel also has a website:http://www.calmerparenting.com.

I am loving the random bargains I have been able to pick up at my local Cotton On for Kids, their website has 30% off but I am on a spending ban so although I went through and put a lot of items in my bag I didn't go through with my purchase.  These two shirts were in my online shopping cart, they were $19.95 each with 30% off.  When I had a look at my local store though they were on the sales rack for $10 each! They are so cute :-).  I bought them in a size one because baby is nearly out of zero's at 7mths old.