Parental Pearl - Height Check

When setting up a new entertainment center it is best to have your toddler try to touch the buttons on the electronics during the set up process.  If he/she can touch them, it is too low and the shelf needs to be taken up a notch. - Manda

Parental Pearl - Bed Time

A standard bed time not only makes for happier children (it’s amazing how much happier enough sleep makes them), but it can save your sanity by giving you a few minutes to recharge as well.  Figuring out how to get those kiddos in bed and stay there may make you incurably insane before you realize that dream though.  - ^_^ Manda

Parental Pearl - Crying Over Spilled Milk

To really understand why someone coined the old adage of “No use crying over spilled milk,” try cleaning it off your recently mopped floor for the fourth or fifth time in less than four hours.  Moments like that can grant amazing clarity.

^_^ Manda

Parental Pearl - Waste Not

Always serve small portions even if you child normally loves that food - yesterday’s favorite can easily become today’s “no way am I going to try it” without any warning.  Better to bribe them with seconds if they eat their veggies. -Manda