Posts by: Brittany Vantrease

I am the stay-at-home mom of three children, two boys with a girl placed in the middle. I started blogging as a hobby and as a way to earn potential income, two years ago. It had originally started as a way to track my journey from being a stay-at-home mom to transitioning to a working mom, but I ended up not rejoining the workforce because my youngest was having a tough time adjusting to preschool. Now I write about parenting young kids, parenting a child with ADHD, and many other things including recipes and life lessons that I learned from something random. My dream is to eventually finish my Christian Romance book and get it published, but in the meantime, I will continue to blog and watch Jane Austen and Bronte sister movie adaptations  and when I'm not in the mood for that, then Grey's Anatomy and The Office reruns, over and over again.

For Moms

How to Recognize Your Child’s Needs and How Help Them Relax

When you’re a parent, there are some things that you catch onto very easily – like, “Oh no! Little Timmy is doing his potty dance and he’s not wearing a pull-up!

I better get him to the potty right away!”

You’ve been potty training your child for a little while and you just know that when they stand a certain way, you better get going.

It could be a potty dance or you see a sudden gleam in their eye and you just know that they are going to try to dash across the street to pet the largest dog you’ve ever seen, so you grab onto that little hand before they can do something dangerous.

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