10 Tips For Finding Good A Daycare

(RaisingX.com) Our daycare search continues. We still have not found a place that we feel good about leaving X. But, we have developed some tips to uncovering what the daycare is like when you are not there.
 

Talk to ALL the teachers
Teachers make the experience. Don’t just say hi. Sit down with the teacher and try […]

Todd Parr Children’s Books

(RaisingX.com) We first received Todd Parr’s This Is My Hair as a gift for Xavier. You can’t help but laugh when you see the kid like style, animation, and colors. Immediately, Xavier was drawn in by the colorful pages and oversized pictures.

But, the bright colors and funny pictures aren’t the only or even […]

Daycare Search: Rich vs Poor

(RaisingX.com) Needing to find a new childcare option we are doing a lot of searching, interviewing, and visiting. We have visited daycares in multiple price ranges. Today we visited a daycare because of its proximity to work, home, and school. We didn’t know much about it prior to going but wanted to stop in and […]

Finding good information

(RaisingX.com) Taking a collage of information from various sites proved to be the most effective, but was extremely time consuming. Most information, especially concerning development, was tied to a product, making it questionable. While we have tried many of these products and services, and many are great, it still leaves a new parent leery.
We […]

The Beginning

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How it started
If how things begin is any indication of how they will unfold, then we are probably in for an interesting adventure. Now, I guess we all know how this happened, but when we actually found out we were sitting in a hotel room in Costa Rica. Pretty fluent in Spanish, I read the […]

Who we are

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Who we are
We never really like defining who we are because we are made up of so many pieces, parts, and passions that it generally becomes a jumbled mess. But, we want you to know how we think and what we think is important, so we will give it a go.
The short list
We are young, […]

Why Raising X

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Why Raising X
There are many parents out there who face the same challenges we did. The lack of accessible information, old information, and finding advice that aligns with modern parenting. We wanted to share the good sources we found, the things that worked for us, our struggles, and personal insight learned daily from […]