Ages & Stages

Disclosure :: This post is sponsored by The Dunham School.  3 Questions to Ask When Searching for a Preschool It happens gradually. The rattles turn to toys. The bottles turn to forks and spoons. The potty-training charts turn to chore charts. Before we know it, the diaper bags turn to backpacks, and we’re sending our little ones off to school wondering where the last few years went. As the mother of a four-year-old daughter, I just walked this path. Is my child ready? Am I ready? How will she adjust? Did we choose the right school? If this was/is you, please hear me when I say: You are normal. Working in school admissions, I watch families every day come to our office in hopes of finding the...

It was Tuesday morning when I told my son, David, to take off his pajamas and put on his clothes for the day - for the fifth time.  Repeating myself is a pet peeve of mine.  I was becoming more frustrated by the second with my little human.  At some point during our exchange, I had an out-of-body moment where I was looking at the situation and started laughing at the nonsense of it all.   Let’s face it, parenting is hard.  But with books like “How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen” by Joanna Faber and Julie King and “The 5 Love Languages of Children” by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, there’s guidance out there for us parents to...

Many of our perspectives in parenting stories offer an intimate look into the highs and lows of being a mom in Baton Rouge. Whether it’s avoiding the mom shame game, or the challenges of having multiple young kids, we think that the best way to work through motherhood is together. No topic is off limits, even if it means getting honest about body image issues for young girls in Baton Rouge. The Red Stick Mom writers talk about important things that Baton Rouge moms need to know, like where to get the best tutoring help in Baton Rouge and where to take a day trip with kids when you just need to get out of town! How to Get Started with...

Every time I go out to eat, my eyes always get glued to the kid sitting at a table quietly with his/her family either coloring or on a piece of technology. What I think? Never in a million years would that be my family. Does it make me sad? Yes. Am I blessed, though? Also, yes. Going almost anywhere… out to eat, to the zoo, to the library to check out a book, to the store, or even to an amusement park is not what this mom calls “fun for the whole family.” I am a boy mom with wild 3-year-old twins and a wild 5-year-old who started Kindergarten this year. One day, we had a whole tub of flour dumped all...

In 2022, we’re all aware of the need for self-care. Whether it be a corporate office pretending to give a crap by extending lunch breaks or a spouse that feels they exemplified selflessness by “letting” a mom shower in peace, there’s a lot of pretending out there when it comes to self-care. Self-care in Motherhood It shouldn’t even be such a buzzword in motherhood because the idea around self-care when you’re a mom is to simply take tiny bits of time to “recharge,” just to go back to motherhood. When will society accept moms are people, too? The thing is, while there’s a ton of support around taking care of yourself, even as a mom *gasp*, there’s a lot of judgment in the...