The Best of Mudpie Mama Posts 2013
You are a free-ranging group with wide interests! You enjoy making homemade Valentines over store-bought cards. You are looking for ways to get your kids outdoors even in the heart of winter, and...
View ArticleHow to Stop the I-Want-It Tantrum (Just in Time for the Holidays)
“I want that!” Five year old Finn cries pointing to a digger the size of Montana. Poppie spies a life-size baby doll dressed in pink. “Can I have that?” she begs. From candy, to cereal with...
View ArticleI Give My Daughter Words: Modeling the Language of Calm
by Rebecca Lemar Just after lunch my daughter asks for dried cherries. She can’t be hungry, she just ate. “No thank you,” I say. This little three year old doesn’t want a “no,” she wants cherries and...
View ArticleA Mudpie Tantrum and a Turnaround
By Bridgette Blakey There we were at the London Heathrow Airport, about to board the flight to Iceland. It had been a long day of traveling already with a 3 hour bus ride and a 2 hour flight from...
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