Babies and young toddlers are, you know, kind of hard to occupy. At the beginning, they mostly just lie around. But once they’re able to sit up, crawl and then toddle unsteadily about, they’re on a mission to do something and touch everything.
Baby years are not like regular people years. Things move fast. When my daughter was an infant, my husband and I would glance at her just about every morning and say, “Whoa, she looks different today.” This flipbook-like pace of development can make it incredibly difficult for parents to go…
It’s a startling discovery that just about every new parent makes: When you change a baby’s nappy, you are in the splash zone. However, there are some ways to stay on guard, as I learned from Lifehacker‘s parenting Facebook group. Here are four methods.