Mama Rika Tells How to Keep Hats on Babies

My babies always wear hats. People wonder how I get them to keep hats on. Here are a few tips...First, start them early to get them used to it! Always put a hat on whenever they are going outside. Hat, then, becomes synonymous with going out. That is actually the biggest trick. If the baby begins to understand that they can only go outside if they are wearing a hat, they will want to wear a hat. If Chubby (15 months) wants to go outside he will go get his hat and either attempt to put it on himself, or hand it to someone for help.

If baby keeps taking his hat off, there are consequences. Either he is taken inside, or he is held in the shade if going inside is not an option. I don't do this to be mean. Not only are hats cute on babies, but hats also offer protection from sun and wind. My babies have all been fair-haired and fair-skinned and would burn easily. Exposing babies to wind can promote and/or worsen ear problems and who wants that. Babies generally love being outside, so they learn quickly.

Tip 3 is to make hats fun. Dress them up and dance around. Point out others wearing hats, especially family members they know and love.

Offer praise when they try hats on all by themselves.

Have brother take multiple pictures of cute baby in hat and keep sending them to Mom's phone in the middle of a class she is taking.

"Just one more, Mom! He's so cute!"

You may remember this picture from a few posts ago. I thought of the book "Caps for Sale" when I saw him. He loves hats!

All in all, it takes a little doing, but babies truly can be taught to keep hats on!

Don't forget to do some Spring Clean for 5 today!

What in the world is an rss feed??

It is actually kind of hard to find information out there on rss feeds that explain what it is in regular people terminology. I am fairly new to rss feeds, but from what I understand, here's what it is.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. If you sign up for my rss feed, you can have information from this site sent to various things that you already belong to. If you have a google or yahoo home page that you check regularly, you can go there to check up on what is happening with this blog if you have subscribed via a reader. I believe you can also have the rss feed sent to your social networking site (like myspace or facebook) and various other things. This option is really useful if you are already subscribed to a lot of updates from other sites. This allows you to have access to all your desired updates in one location.

The other option with an rss feed is to have a little icon appear on your toolbar with a drop down menu showing you the latest posts. If your toolbar is pretty clutter free, that might be a nice option for you, especially if you don't have a google or yahoo or other homepage at which you want to receive things.

If you prefer, you can just sign up for emails and then you don't have to deal with figuring out the new technology. You can sign up for emails and rss feed if you want. Or, you can bookmark this page and just check back whenever you feel like catching up on posts

Now, with all that said--Feel free to correct me or add to my definition in the comments section.
Hope that helps!