It’s the end of July, and you know what that means? The Olympics opening ceremony is tonight! Visit our main site for some great ways to make watching the Olympics with your kids fun and educational, including A Parent’s Guide to Getting into the Olympic Spirit and 10 Wild Animals that Have Olympic Gold-Medal Worthy Abilities.
The Huffington Post compiled a great slideshow of Olympians hugging and celebrating with their parents after winning medals at the Olympics through the years.
While we’re on the topic of Olympics, does potty training your child ever feel like an Olympic event? Lance Somerfeld of NYC Dads Group recently blogged about his adventures in potty training his son.
“I have been very relaxed about potty training because it’s my philosophy that my son will take a dump in the toilet when he is good and ready to do it…so why push him. Unfortunately, my wife’s philosophy is that our son should have been potty trained a year ago. Well, our two differences of opinion came to the ultimate test this past week. I agreed to go along with her for the first few days, but then I renegged…”
And Mommy Shorts made this great flow chart to see if your child is ready to be potty trained.
Clothing designer Dolores Cortés recently cast Valentina Guerrero, a 10-month-old from Miami who has Down syndrome. Ellen over at Love That Max takes a look at the claims that the designer is exploiting Guerrero and that companies tout that fact that they use children with special needs in their advertising campaigns.
Finally, we leave you with Kid President, who’s views and opinions of adults and the world are just hilarious.
