Parenting Articles

Articles With a Spring/Summer Theme

Here are some new articles with a spring, summer, and/or family travel theme:

Earth Day Action Plan: Helping Kids to Change the World
by Ann Douglas
Download earthday2007.doc

Happy Campers: Tips on Preparing Your Child for Summer Camp
by Ann Douglas
Download HappyCampers2007.doc

What a Trip! Traveling With Young Children
by Ann Douglas
Download what_a_trip.doc

Mission: Possible | Conquering Closet Chaos
by Ann Douglas
Download closetchaos_2007.doc

Kids in the Kitchen
by Ann Douglas
Download kids_in_the_kitchen.doc

Fundraising Tips
by Ann Douglas
Download fundraising_tips.doc

Please remember to run a credit line at the bottom of each article. If you're unsure of the wording to use, please contact my assistant. Thanks!

New Articles for Your Parenting Publications

I've uploaded the following articles as of today:

• Pregnancy Ins and Outs
• Pregnancy and Baby Quiz
• Pregnancy After Infertility
• Everything I Needed to Know About Babies
• Holiday Discipline Traps
• 12 Holiday Stressbusters
• Holiday Sanity Savers

parenting articles

New Articles: Sleep and Mealtime Solutions

Here are some new articles that cover the same topics as my brand new books

Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage

and

Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage

Sleep Solutions

• "My Newborn Won't Nap!" (.doc)
• Mom, Baby, and Toddler Sleep Problems (.doc)
• From A to ZZZZs (.doc)
• Baby Body Language (.doc)

Mealtime Solutions

• Your Top Mealtime Problems, Solved (.doc)
• Dinner Dilemmas (.doc)

If you are interested in running a small excerpt from either book or reviewing either book in your publication, please get in touch.

Sleep Solutions and Mealtime Solutions Tip Sheets

I handed out the following tip sheets during my Sleep Solutions and Mealtime Solutions workshops at a recent baby show. They are based on material from my brand new books Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage; and Mealtime Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage . The tip sheets are available for download in both .doc and .pdf format.

Sleep Solutions Tip Sheet (.doc); (.pdf)

Mealtime Solutions Tip Sheet (.doc); (.pdf)

Pregnancy and Parenting Articles

The following parenting articles are available for download in standard Microsoft Word (.doc) format. You are welcome to reprint the material contained in these articles in your parenting newspaper, magazine, or newsletter (or your school, daycare, or employee newsletter) provided that proper credit is given ("by Ann Douglas") and a brief bio line (including website address) is supplied. For all other uses, please contact me.

Pregnancy

Cesarean Recovery Download (32 K): What to expect as you begin to recover from a cesarean birth.

Parenting

Closet Chaos Download (34 K): A guide to tackling what's behind the closet door.

 

Parenting Q & As

The following parenting Q & As are available for download in standard Microsoft Word (.doc) format. You are welcome to reprint the material contained in these Q & As in your parenting newspaper, magazine, or newsletter (or your school, daycare, or employee newsletter) provided that proper credit is given ("by Ann Douglas") and a brief bio line (including website address) is supplied. For all other uses, please contact me.

Parenting Q & As (.doc)

• Baby Shower Solutions Download (54 K): Tips on planning a baby shower that you might actually want to attend.
• Postpartum Depression or Postpartum Blues? Download (32 K): How to tell the difference between postpartum depression and the milder and more common postpartum (or "baby") blues.
• Back to Work, Back to Childcare Download (54 K): Making the transition.
• Playing Fair at Board Games Download (48 K): All's fair when it comes to love and board games -- or is it?
• Five is the Loneliest Number Download (49 K): How can you and your partner be feeling so lonely when there are this many kids around?
• Dinner Dilemmas Download (30 K): How can whipping up a "simple" casserole be such a major production, now that you have kids?
• Kids in the Kitchen Download (53 K): The more the merrier -- right?
• Teacher Gifts Download (30 K): The end of the school year can be expensive if you go teacher-gift crazy.
• It's All Relative Download (43 K): The joys and perils of visiting family.
• Family Travel Download (47 K) : Holidays are supposed to be fun, but how can they be if no one gets any sleep?
• Back-to-School Clutter Solutions Download (47 K): Make room for a whole new school year's worth of clutter!

Attn. Reporters: You are welcome to quote from anything on this site when you are researching stories; to run portions of these articles as sidebars to accompany articles; to quote from these materials for on-air newsclips; etc. Please contact me if explicit permission is required.

Parenting and Pregnancy Tipsheets

The following tip sheets are available for download. Feel free to use them as handouts in your prenatal classes, parenting classes, or as inserts in your school newsletters. Parenting magazine or newsletter editors: if you'd like to reprint any of these tip sheets in your publications, drop me a line and I can arrange to send you the text as a Word .doc instead. Hope you find something useful here.

• Conception Countdown (.pdf) (96 K)
• Your Top Ten Pregnancy Sex Questions Answered (.pdf) (88 K)
• Just Say Spahhh: Spa Do's and Don'ts During Pregnancy (.pdf) (76 K)
• The Complaint Department: Pregnancy Aches and Pains (.pdf) (114 K)
• Pregnancy the Second Time Around (.pdf) (114 K)
• Pink or Blue? Seven Myths About Predicting the Sex of Your Baby (.pdf) (114 K)
• Learning to Love Your Pregnant Body (.pdf) (137 K)
• Will the Sandman Ever Come? Pregnancy and Sleep (.pdf) (136 K)
• The Top Ten Labor-Related Worries (.pdf) (139 K)
• The Last Hurrah: Countdown to Birth (.pdf) (139 K)
• Training for the Main Event (.pdf) (120 K)
• Baby Fever: Why it's so Easy to Overshop for Baby (.pdf) (116 K)
• What No One Tells You About Having a Baby(.pdf) (134 K)
• Postpartum Survival Guide (.pdf) (115 K)
• Postpartum Diva: Fashion After Baby (.pdf) (113 K)
• Fridge Notes: Toddler Food Guide (.pdf) (144 K)
• Back to School Survival Guide (.pdf) (72 K)
• NEW! Making Learning Fun (.pdf) (317 K)
• NEW! Raising a Writer (.pdf) (368 K)
• Winter Family Fitness (.pdf) (88 K)

Reprint Central: Parenting Article Reprints

Attn. Editors: Looking for well-researched, well-written content for your parenting magazine, newsletter, or blog? The articles and tip sheets linked to from (or reprinted on) this website are available for reprint free of charge provided that you include the copyright notice and short author bio supplied with each article and you provide a link to having-a-baby.com. If you prefer, we can negotiate a reprint fee instead. I'm happy to work either way. Just drop me a line c/o my assistant Florence: Ann Douglas c/o Florence.

Attn. Reporters: You are welcome to quote from anything on this site when you are researching stories; to run portions of these articles as sidebars to accompany articles; to quote from these materials for on-air newsclips; etc. Please contact me if you require explicit permission: Ann Douglas. If you need to contact me in a hurry, you may want to try phoning my office (705-742-3265) and/or cc-ing your email to my assistant Florence. She can usually track me down pretty quickly if I'm out of the office.