By Elmer George, Contributor For expecting parents, especially first-time families and those balancing older kids, work, or limited help, home preparation for a baby can feel like one more item on an already packed list. The hard part is that postpartum home challenges rarely announce themselves: moving through dark rooms while half-awake, newborn care clutter…
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Helping Older Parents Downsize their Home
Until recently my aging parents’ large single detached home seemed like a prime location to store my life history, my knick-knacks, and my clothes that I will eventually fit in one day. Best of all this was all free storage space. Along with being my go-to warehouse, that house was the holder of many of…
Stress-free Baby Proofing
New parents can easily go overboard in trying to protect and control everything around their new baby, and that is understandable. This still applies to those who have other children but maybe to slightly lesser extent. It is hard to know when it is enough or slightly overboard when it comes to protecting or childproofing…
Helpful Daily Reminders
Trying to keep a home afloat is a task in and of itself. Often times we get distracted with kids (if you have any) and other day to day life (like Netflix binge watching or pub crawling). But one things that we should worry more about, or at least set reminders to take care of,…
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