Sunday, April 17, 2011

Potty Training at Night

I am not an expert on potty training. I think the way you do it depends on your child. With Hazel it clicked with her when I gave up. She is so stubborn so when I stopped pushing her she figured it out on her own. With the twins Evan got it right away but Erick was struggling with it so we gave him a few more months and tried again and then he was ready and did great.
Anyways I have found a great trick to help protect the mattress when you start putting your kids in underwear at night. Puppy pee pads!

I figured it out when I was potty training Hazel and I had some left over from when our dog had puppies. I just put a couple under the sheets so she didn't know they were there. If she had an accident I would have to wash the sheets but the mattress would be safe and I would just throw the pad away and put down a new one. And they are so much cheaper than any of the stuff they have specifically for children's beds.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Learning to write

I have found a great website that has printable letter tracing pages but my favorite part is that they have name pages too! The first thing a child needs to learn to write is their name and this is a great website to help with that. So far they have had all of my kids names, except we couldn't find Erick the way we spell it :(
There are also a lot of other activity pages to print out for preschoolers.
I know you can't wait any longer to check it out so here it is . . .
http://www.printactivities.com/Tracing.html