In this website you will find parenting tips, some kid activity, child-centered action, encouragement for growing great baby and children, some child crafts, and links to some child care resources.

If you are a new or tired parent or grandparent and don't know what to do with baby, you have stumbled into the right place.

If parenting has left you wondering what to do with your growing baby or toddler, then have a look around. Exploring the stepping stones in this website can provide you with: --some organization for parent help --some inspiration for parenting --some action for kid activity --some direction and parenting tips --some suggestions to make your path a bit easier and to provide help when you need it for your growing baby, growing toddler

Parents of small children ordinarily have limited time. Therefore, the concentration here is more on concrete actions and parenting tips and how-to rather than philosophical parenting issues. However, there is talking to be done and my biases will undoubtedly shine through sometimes.

The focus is on parenting tips for parents who have their children with them at home rather than in a child care or day care facility.

If I am going to "listen" to someone, I want to know where they're coming from and that they have more than I already know. I don't want to waste my time on fluff. I expect that you are the same so I will tell you how this website came about.

During my younger years, I spent a lot of time with children and their parents in both professional and personal associations. A dozen of my professional years were spent working directly with children--some with severe emotional problems, some in pre-school settings, some with intelligence challenges, some "normal", and some with a wide variety of physical challenges.

I put normal in quotes because there is such a wide definition for normal development. I have seen many toddlers who seemed to be challenged in some way, turn into successful, happy, lovely productive adults.

Some of my job descriptions included working with parents and parent help. I've seen many nervous parents who seemed to be hanging by a thread, who with a little guidance and some parenting tips were able to gain confidence in their parenting skills and thrive as parents.

As a young parent, myself, I was talking with a woman I had just met. The conversation turned to our growing toddlers. I casually mentioned that I did projects with my child every day. In amazement she asked, "How do you know what to do with your toddler? How do you ever figure out kid activity?" Since that time I have repeatedly recognized a need in many parents for something at their fingertips to spark their imaginations or to do the thinking for them in regard to determining what to do with their babies and toddlers on a day to day basis. It seems you need parenting tips and advice and kid activity readily available.

Much of what I have done in my past had to do with actually doing activities with kids--kid activity. I have files and piles of resources and information that has been languishing in my head and my desk drawers.

To pass on some of the personal wisdom I have acquired through the years seems a meaningful way for me to do my little bit for the good of the world. But not yet---this website wasn't born then. In fact, it almost didn't get off the ground at all. I had another website. It was about teaching reading early. Someone stole my words. They didn't just use the ideas and concepts but actually blatantly stole the words, word-for-word directly off my website and then took credit for them as their own. This actually took place in a school district that touted itself as being 'ethical'!

Needless to say, I was astonished and discouraged. I shared my expertise in good faith. I want children to have better lives and I think our current world desperately needs help. But for me, everything stood still for awhile while I regrouped my attitude toward the idea of sharing my experience and advice only to have it stolen.

Sometimes when I am out and about and watch parents so badly mismanage their growing baby or growing toddler, I want to encourage them and suggest that they find the tools that they need so everybody can be less stressed. Sometimes I see a child who is on the verge of being by-passed by the world because nobody stepped up to lend a hand. Sometimes parents or children are just on the verge of either falling off the cliff or reaching the mountain peak. I get agitated when I know there are tools--sometimes simple, easy tricks, or parenting tips to use---that could result in success.

Ultimately I have to speak. My experience and advice wants out! What good is it to me? At this point in my life, I'm not actively raising children or working with kids anymore and these things are bursting at my seams, bubbling over. So I have now pulled up my socks and decided that if someone feels compelled to copy my stuff, I don't like it but so be it--I'm not going to let them turn me into a victim. So, I am forging ahead and saying what I have to say. I have parenting tips and advice and kid activity and child care insight to express. ...And thus was born this site.

I believe that children are our future. They need opportunities to be fulfilled and to reach their potential. Of course they need to be loved and cherished but that's not enough. Parenting tips can help children get these experiences. If children have positive relationships and experiences, and spend their growing years doing productive and stimulating kinds of kid activity, I think they will be more confident, secure, and productive and will be happier when they grow into adults. Consequently, the world will be a better place for everyone.

In my estimation, our best efforts should go toward enhancing and creatively building and sustaining the lives of these jewels.

I don't claim to have all the answers. I do claim to know a lot of what works. I can pretty regularly recommend alternatives or complementary parenting tips and actions to make life more satisfying to parents and kids. I have empathy with the challenges of helping kids grow up in a healthy way and a pocketful of tools and kid activity to boot.

If I don't know answers to your concerns, possibly I can steer you in the direction where you can find help.

I hope you enjoy your visit here and the parenting tips which are included, and that you can take with you something of usefulness and value for your life and the life of your growing baby, growing toddler. This will be an evolving and ever growing website, so, bookmark and come back when you have a moment or when you need a friendly helping hand. Child care with parenting tips, kid activity, and a smattering of child crafts will help you on your way. Step by Step you can grow great kids.

Please feel welcome to browse around and have a cuppa virtual tea :-)

And one more thing---May I introduce you to Yellow Bird who flies around this site regularly and sometimes stops to guide your journey or point the way or highlight a thing or two.

This website is copyrighted. Please respect the copyright but feel free to apply any of the techniques and suggestions herein for your situation. A lot of the ideas I must have gotten from someone, somewhere, but since I grew up with them they are like second nature and I don't always know from whence they originated. I will give one big THANK-YOU to my parents, teachers, scout leaders, other parents and friends for their influences and acceptance and guidance for me, and to the many children who I have interacted with and learned from as well. ...and thank-you for visiting :-)

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