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Donna Donnelly - The Breakup That Hurts More Than Anything: Getting Dumped By Your Babysitter - The Storked Blog
Did you ever have someone breakup with you? How terrible was it? Now imagine it’s your babysitter!!! The Storked Blog page at Glamour.com had an interesting post this month discussing the dreaded end of babysitter relationships. Finding [...]

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Best known from the international smash hit “Baywatch” - Gena Lee Nolin, actress and mom, is returning after having three children, Spencer (12), Hudson Lee (3) and baby Stella, with an entirely new image and outlook on life - and we’re thrilled to have Gena here with us on the Graco blog to chat about [...]

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As you may have seen, we’ve been posting car seat safety tips on Twitter (follow us!) over the last month. We know it’s not easy to know all the answers, especially when it comes to the safety of your most precious cargo, so we hope these tips offer some help.
Here are some of our most recent safety tips:
- The chest clip [...]

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This post was inspired by our friend Stephanie  when she commented on an earlier Heart to Heart post asking what the pros and cons were of having 3 children and what my experience has been with “Middle Child Syndrome”. 
Like many young women, I imagined my future brood long before I knew anything at all about real motherhood. [...]

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Here’s a post from Graco’s Kelley Maxfield, Associate Channel Marketing Manager (She’s the one with the short blond hair down in front - welcome Kelley!) Kelly was our fearless leader at the Atlanta Parent Magazine Family Block Party this year, and here she is to share the fun we had:
You see announcements at your office “help volunteer” [...]

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How many times do we hear, no two children are alike? It’s just so hard to believe and even more challenging to refrain yourself from comparing. My husband and I have been writing journals for our girls since we were pregnant with them. We write at least two to three times a month. Cute stories, [...]

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We love to celebrate our Graco families - and a few members of our sales team recently welcomed a new addition this September! Twitter was the team’s resident caterpillar, and she has been nutured by the group throughout her entire transformation cycle.  Well, “Twitter” finally hatched, and they tell me she’s a girl! She will fly all [...]

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Army Staff Sargeant Dad reporting for hug under direct orders from Major Cutie.
Words cannot begin to express the emotions captured in this photo. I am sure you all remember Major Cutie from past Wondrous Wednesday posts. If not, you can see her here and here. Major Cutie’s father was serving in Iraq while she was born, [...]

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I feel like I’ve been hearing a lot about this topic lately from so many different perspectives.
For example, one of my girlfriends is just starting to think about having kids soon. While her husband is ready to start trying, she’s not quite sure she’s ready for that step just yet. When I asked her why, she explained that [...]

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I took a lot of abuse in this office over enrolling our daughter in Survival Swimming when she was 2 years old. After talking to neighbors and reading about it – my husband and I were intrigued with the idea of 2 & 3 year olds learning how to get themselves to the water’s surface and [...]

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