My first child had a condition that was not compatible with life that was not detected until he was about 18 hours old. I appreciate what amounted to “hospice” care for him (and myself) for the 3 days of his life. But in my second and third (both successful) pregnancies we monitored EVERYTHING. We knew just about…

My children are 21 and 16 now, but whenever they had to have formula we did the same thing you mention. If they were constipated, add a little Karo’s Syrup. If they were loose, a little bit of banana babyfood. The sugar apparently draws water to the gut, and apparently the bananas . . . somehow do the opposite? The…

As a mom whose hair was kept short very much against her will as a child, I let my daughter grow her hair LONG. This may have been some kind of overcompensation for the fact that the child had almost no hair until she was nearly two, but I digress. If left to her own devices, at the end of the day she would look like…

That is what I was thinking. Not much work at all, especially when they can go outside. Plus, they keep other livestock poop from piling up. They scratch and kick through everything searching for seeds or bugs. And our chickens are quite nice to each other unless they’ve not been able to go outside their coop in a…