Motor Planning in Babies: How Water-Based Learning Sets Your Child Up for Success
When you watch a baby learn to crawl, you're witnessing something far more complex than simple repetition. Behind every wobbly attempt, every forward lunge, and every tumble backward is your...
How to End Swimming Lesson Meltdowns
Expect your toddler to cry at swim lessons. There. Have we set your expectations low enough? This is a group of people who freak out...
Five Ways Babies Can Complicate Your Marriage
It never fails. Every time we have a new baby, my husband travels out of town for a conference. He has to fly through several...
One Year. One Toy.
It all started with a box. I'm sure it originally hauled a month's supply of diapers, or paper towels, or something equally unexciting that my...
Winter Sensory Activities for Babies
It’s winter. You’re stuck inside the house, school is out, and you don’t know what you’re going to do to entertain the little ones? We...
Julie Plus 4: I Refuse to Make The Holidays Stressful
On my first child’s first Christmas, a well-meaning relative gave him the Elf on the Shelf®. I had that thing donated to Goodwill before he could...
Who’s Our Otteroo Mom?
It’s Julie Forbes, whom you’ll be seeing more of on our newly revamped website! And who is Julie? Well, here’s the story. The Otteroo OG...
Julie Plus 4: I Don’t Miss My Job Enough
People ask me all of the time if I miss being on TV. When they phrase it like that, I instantly think of the ego...
The Benefits of Swim Lessons
Are swim lessons the much-needed mommy hack to molding a brilliant, kindergarten-ready kid in one fell swoop? Researchers in Australia figured out a way to...
Julie Plus 4: Why I Have So Many Kids
In for the penny, in for the pound. That’s my response when people comment on how many children I have. (For the record, it’s four;...