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What to pack when traveling with kids

If you think motherhood is nothing but fun, then you for sure haven’t traveled with kids. There is never peace on this one; it’s not an all-merry picnic day. Handling kids alone is hectic, let alone managing them during a journey or while on vacation. The only secret to traveling a bit lighter is adequate […]

Stay-at-home holiday ideas for parents and kids

Let’s be honest, having kids is lovely, and we all love our kids beyond measure, but having them home for the holidays can be bumpy at times. No parent wants their kids away from home, but school somehow reduces stress on parents. Having kids home means you need to adjust to accommodate their demands, which […]

How can I get through postpartum depression?

There is a period after delivery when every mother feels a little too overwhelmed, excited, and anxious. Many attribute this change of emotions to the baby blues, but no, this is what the doctors call postpartum depression. Mostly triggered by the fear of the unknown, postpartum depression is a mood disorder that affects 1 in […]

What Special Needs parents Need

Parenting is the world’s most complex and demanding job ever. But parenting a child with special needs deserves a medal literally. No amount of talk, therapy or research can ever prepare you for this. When parenting a special needs child various aspects of your parenting are magnified. Normal things like play dates require more attention, […]

Parenting tips I learned from my mother

Parenting tips I learnt from my mother

Parenting is no walk in the park, it’s actually easier talking about parenting than implementing it. We tend to think we have all the skills to make this great, well that’s until we get there and realize it takes basically more than thoughts to actually do it right. The first step towards being a great parent should actually be self-love, you can never give what you do not have and you have to learn to manage your own emotion before you teach a child how to deal with theirs. It is for this reason that most of us look up to our mothers, borrowing a leaf from them means learning from the best with the hope of doing it right.

Vaccines: Baby-friendly and non-baby friendly.

Wikipedia has this for your heads up about vaccines “It is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.” […]

Is naming kids after family members a Yay or Nay?

Parents should think deeply before naming their children because names are paramount, they tell hidden stories about us and probably what we may become in the future. Names also impact the lives of children either negatively or positively. Negative names never inspire a child towards positive growth due to its negative connotations, and such children […]

My 2-year-old abnormal sleeping schedule

Night waking is a common behavior in toddlers, more like a mean trick from them. One minute you have your child deep asleep and the next minute she or he is attention seeking with a loud cry. Many call it to sleep regression while others think it’s a sleep disorder, well whatever the case it […]

Fears of parents to soon to be teenagers.

I remember when I was in my teenage years; I was so engrossed in becoming a young adult that I became a nightmare to my parents. I would run around with the wrong crowd, smoke and drink alcohol and even come home late. My parents would constantly worry and keep me on toes because I […]