Mothering Corner

One of the dilemma face by working mums before returning back to work is how to find a good child care for their babies or children. I’m one of those mothers who are very particular about my kids, and I don’t think there is anyone else who can do this job better than me, so I quit my job instead.

However, not every mother can make this decision. Thus, a good child care is very crucial and it takes a lot of research before you can find the one that suit your and your baby the best. If you are from Long Island, you can use LongIslandExchange.com which has an extensive directory about everything you need to look for in Long Island. It has won three categories in the 34th Annual Best on Long Island Awards for the second consecutive year, so you can be sure that it’s be biggest and most complete directory about Long Island.

I have browsed the category under child care and there is a long list of child care providers with their details and map. So you can refer to the list, if you are looking for one.

I bought my car seats for each kid before they were born. My plan was to put them in the car seat, right after we were discharged from the hospital.

For Justin, hubby didn’t install the car seat when we were out from the hospital. I was annoyed and asked him why. The reason was MIL said newborn babies are too young for car seat, furthermore Justin was swaddled, better just carried him home. I was very annoyed about it, but what to do? The car seat was not there, so I got to carry him all the way.

So, Justin only sat on a car seat at full moon, when we bought him out for some full moon package delivery. Before that, I carried him as MIL prohibited him from sitting in a car seat. In fact, none of my niece and nephews have car seats when they were babies! Justin’s the first! And they were so shocked that I was willing to spend so much money on a seat like that!

However, after Justin got adapted to car seat, everyone praised him how a good boy he is, sitting so obediently in the car. But they forgot about the “noises” they made initially.

The same goes for Isabelle. It’s a bit harder to get her buckled up in the car seat as she always uses nursing as an excuse to get out of it! Unless we are willing to let her cry her lungs out, most of the time, I surrender. So, I’m a bad mommy on this. I know we should have stop somewhere for nursing, but sometimes, it’s quite hard to do so on the highway. I really wonder who the westerners successfully enforce the kids to sit on the car seats since young? Any tips?