There is no end to parenting advice–on the web, in books, from your neighbors, Dr. Phil…you name it, everyone has an opinion–especially for expecting first time parents.  But it is rare to get actual advice you can USE.  For the most part, the best parenting knowledge comes from other experienced parents in real life exchanges that leave out the psychobabble and aspiration and get down to the reality of it all.
That’s what inspired a couple of friends, Allison McDade and Allison Edwards (a/k/a “The Allisons”) to develop Parent Prep School, …

The UpSpring Baby Team has had an exciting year and we wanted to take a moment to share with you all the reasons we are thankful:
“I’m thankful for the amazing spirit and tenacity of the UpSpring Baby team and our wonderful and loyal consumers at UpSpring Baby who provide so much great feedback regarding our products and help to continuously make us better.   I’m thankful for my sweet and sassy 7-year-old, Drake who inspired me to start UpSpring, and that I am able to …

My children respond extremely well to progress charts.  I’ve used them in practically every endeavor in training or discipline since they were toddlers (including potty training).  Now that they’re older, they are keen to start earning money and privileges and once again I find myself in need of a chart to help them monitor their efforts.
Since I just bought my very first iPhone, I was positively thrilled to find out about this cool app called iRewardChart.  This handy-dandy little application lets you create and customize unique reward charts for each …

Caroline Caskey-Goodner is UpSpring Baby’s highly driven, yet totally fun-loving CEO.  With Caroline at the helm, our team has been able to grow our business with creative freedom, positive energy, and a collaborative environment.
Caroline grew up in Houston, Texas and earned her undergraduate degree at Duke.  She then went on to earn her business degree at Rice University.  In 1993 she founded and operated Identigene, a company that did DNA identification testing.  In 1997 she sold Identigene to another strategic company in the same space.   She also founded …

I thought the Flip camera was a cool invention when it came out, but now that I’ve figured out a way to improve my kids’ behavior with it I think it’s even more amazing.
We have a family Flip video recorder that my kids used to make family movies of everything from plastic army men attacking plastic horses to capturing funny moments of Jeff on the potty to the dogs doing tricks.  I even started to carry the bright orange Flip Camera in my purse in an …

This week we recorded a training video for our friends at Babies R’Us, and we couldn’t have let the moment pass us by without taking the opportunity to include a video for the Grammy Award-Winning (wannabe) song in honor of the Shrink Hips postpartum belt:

Wanna hear the full song?  Click here:  Shrinkx Hips (w)Rap.

Most parents have been petitioned for a new pet at least once, if not several hundred times.  For example, about a month ago my 10-year-old daughter Grace asked for a guinea pig when I was rushing out the door to a meeting at work.  Seizing the opportunity to provide some good solid parenting advice, I turned around and told her that she needed to learn that she would be much more successful with requests such as this if she scheduled time with me and had all her …

Are you expecting your new addition within the next few weeks, or will you be 0-4 weeks postpartum by July 15th? If so, you may be eligible to test a new version of our Shrinkx Hips product, earn a $50.00 Gift Certificate to Special Additions (www.maternityandnursing.com) and receive other sample products from UpSpring Baby (a total value of $145).
Shrinkx Hips is an exciting new postnatal hip compression belt that works in combination with the hormones already in your body to gently guide your hips back to their pre-pregnancy position. …

This is our very first in a new series of feature posts by UpSpring Baby co-founder Julie Jumonville.  Julie is a lot of things: a businesswoman, an entrepreneur, and inventor, the member of rock band, and a community activist–but she’s also a mom.  Her two children Grace and Reece have provided her with plenty of life lessons and in her bi-monthly column, she’ll share those real-life parenting moments with you:
“I Want This” Disease!

“Mom, can I get this candy?”
“Can I get this Lego?”
“Can I get this plastic horse?”
“Can I at least …