Life Is Not a Reality Show: Keeping It Real with the Housewife Who Does It All by Richards Kyle

Author:Richards, Kyle [Richards, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780062113498
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2011-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

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Professional Mom

Sometimes I do consider myself a pro in the mom department. Not that I know everything, but I have some tricks up my sleeve. First, though, I’ll tell you my number one imperative about mothering: follow your instincts. Do what you believe is best and what works for you. Forget about being politically correct or doing what so-and-so insists is the best way to go. Now, on to the tips!

• Baby’s Nails: Some of my friends have told me, “Oh my God, I’m so scared to cut my newborn baby’s nails with the clipper or the scissors. I don’t want to hurt them!” You know what? I just bite them off! At that age the nails are paper thin, and they just peel right away.

• Eye infections: Newborns are very prone to eye infections. There’s a very simple way to take care of them that my doctor told me about. Just express a few drops of your breast milk and put it in their eyes. Just like that and the infection is gone!

• Potty training: I strongly advise you to do potty training in the summer. I let my kids run around naked in the backyard. If they’re naked and they start to pee, they don’t like the feeling of it running down their leg so they’ll immediately stop, and that’s when I grab them and rush them off to the toilet.

• Time-Outs: Speaking of potty training, accidents will happen—sometimes long after they seemed to get the hang of it. Ha! I don’t believe in ever punishing my child for an accident, whether it’s peeing on the floor or spilling juice. Why would you do that?

Now if they’ve done something wrong deliberately, maybe having been mean to another child, then I will send them for a time-out. But the time-outs shouldn’t be longer than one minute per year of age. So if your child is ten, she gets ten minutes, and Portia at three years old would get three. If calculating it this way seems too lenient, please remember how children perceive time. Ten minutes is a long time to a kid! I ask my child where they want to go for their time-out to sit and think. I don’t insist that it be their room because I don’t want them to associate their room with punishment. And then afterward, I just move on. I don’t harangue my child with, “Well, what did you learn? Are you ever going to do that again?”

• Breast Versus Bottle Versus Cup: These days there is so much pressure on parents to go by the book of what’s accepted socially. For example, a kid is supposed to nurse until they’re a year old and then go straight to a plastic cup. Well, I don’t believe in that. I think it’s a much more comfortable transition if the child goes from breast to bottle for awhile before he takes on a cup. If that makes your child happy and secure,

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