Choosing a theme when designing a nursery is an easy way to coordinate the room and let it tell a story. Since your child isn’t quite ready yet for consultation, pick something that you like and find amusing. Themes for a boy’s nursery are as limitless as your imagination. Don’t quite know where to begin? A popular theme for a baby boy’s room is the southwest, cowboys and horses.

Start Here

After deciding on a paint color for the walls and painting the room, you will need furniture. The most basic pieces you will need are a crib and a crib mattress. A dresser or a chest of drawers is a must-have for storing baby clothes, booties and blankies. A change table will make both you and your baby comfortable when you have to change his diaper. A rocker gives you a cozy place to bond with your child while you’re feeding him.

Smart and stylish with a casual southwestern feel, the Da Vinci Reagan 4-in-1 Convertible Crib in Oak has the added benefit of growing with your baby. It starts off as a crib but can be converted into a toddler bed and then into a standard bed when needed.

Beddie Buys

You will need to transform the crib and mattress into a nice soft and comfortable sleeping space for your child with a crib bedding set. The natural oak color of the crib’s wood finish will be a perfect complement to the BeBe Chic Bronco Billy 4 Piece Set with Mobile.

Complete the nursery décor by matching the window treatment to the crib’s bedding with the BeBe Chic Bronco Billy Nursery Room Curtain Valance.

Finish it Off

The Woolrich Cisco Kid Table Lamp is a fun way to bring some light into the room while keeping to the cowboy theme you have chosen.

A popular baby shower gift is a book. Whether it’s a traditional picture book, a cloth book or a brightly colored board book, you’re going to need someplace to put them. The Lea Jackson Creek Bunching Bookcase, with its oak veneers and rugged “cowboy” appearance will be the perfect addition to a cowboy themed nursery.

A rug seems to automatically make a room a warm and inviting. The Fun Rugs Supreme Collection Denim Dreams Rug will give our cowboy nursery an extra special charm.

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Perhaps most parents look forward to this stage because it means the end of changing soiled diapers. But when should potty training begin? I began researching potty training when my daughter was 10 months old, because my in-laws bought my daughter her very own potty training toilet.

I was quickly overwhelmed by the diversity of advice: Train early. Don’t train until they are two years old. Give rewards. Wait for them to show an interest in the potty. The advice went on and on.

I tried a schedule of sitting on the potty training toilet which usually meant sitting there with her and reading books for half an hour without any result. After a few weeks without results, I was pretty frustrated.

What ended up working for her was simply letting her run around at home with a bare bottom. She had accidents on the floor, of course. But each time that happened, I would gently remind her, “When you feel like you need to pee, say ‘I need to pee’, and go to your potty” (I’d placed her potty in the hallway for easy access.)

I wanted her to tell me when she needed to pee so that I’d have some warning, because frankly sometimes there is no warning, just a sudden puddle on the floor.

After a few days of accidents, she started getting into the habit of saying, “I need to pee”, pulling off her pants and underwear, and running to sit on her potty. She is now potty trained mere weeks before her third birthday. Hurrah!

There are probably as many potty training toilets out there as there are pieces of advice on potty training, but one is sure to fit the particular potty-training style of your child.

Some potty trainers are musical, others are made specially for your little prince or princess, and there is even a potty with rewards that lights up and sings when your child successfully uses it!

Krista (mom of two)

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