How To Train And Teach Your 3 Year Old
So it’s been a few years since you held your little miracle! All the awws and aahs that came with a newborn have now moved on to oohs and argh. In my case, there are now a few watch outs! This is a normal progression in your little child’s life. While to us adults, it…
Exams How Can Parents Support Kids
Exam time in India can be an incredibly stressful time for children. The pressure to perform well on tests is immense, and with the high stakes of college admissions, the competition for university spots can be daunting. It is common for students to stay up late, cramming for exams or sacrificing sleep to study. It…
Raising A 3-Year-Old
Raising a 3-year-old can be both a rewarding and challenging experience. It is essential to set boundaries and provide consistent discipline while allowing for exploration and creativity. To nurture a healthy and happy 3-year-old, parents must create a safe, secure, and stimulating environment. It includes providing plenty of attention and love and setting clear expectations…
Cheering Kids Of All Ages
Ever noticed how we bravo and cheer an infant, toddler, or a threenager? As parents, we can and should never stop being our children’s greatest cheerleaders. Why? It is how we build a secure and confident group of next-generation superstars. Trust me, when my folks cheered me on as a child, I felt like Ironman!…
10 Ways To Encourage Kids To READ
Getting a child excited to read can be easy if you make it fun. Start by incorporating reading into everyday activities. For example, when you’re out on a walk, point out things in the environment and talk about them. Ask your child questions about what they see and encourage them to look it up in…
Fostering Self-Esteem In Kids
Parents have a significant role to play in boosting their kids. They need to provide their children with love, support, and direction. They should create a safe and secure environment for their kids to explore, learn and grow. They should also be patient and understanding and help their children develop communication and problem-solving skills. Parents…
Tall N Short Tales For Kids
“Once upon a time” is a phrase most of us heard while growing up, and now our children hear from us. Storytelling is essential, “an interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination.” How many of you grew up listening to stories…
10 Creative Ways To Make Time For Kids
Making time for your kids can be challenging, especially when you have a busy lifestyle. However, making time for your kids is essential, as it helps to create a strong bond and lasting relationship. One way to creatively make time for your kids is to set aside a specific amount of hours each week, such…
Coping with Anger
ANGER IN PARENT When parents are angry, it is crucial to understand the underlying cause. Parents may feel overwhelmed and lack the resources or support to manage their emotions. Showing empathy and understanding can help de-escalate the situation. It is also essential to give them space and time to cool off and return to the…
Nurture Through Nature
Nurturing kids with nature is a great way to get them outdoors, help them learn about the environment, and become more connected with their surroundings. Gurukul and nature is a traditional form of education in India where the students live with their teacher and learn from him. It’s believed that being close to nature helps…
Ten Responsibilities Of A Dad
A Dad’s role, defined, is one of a powerhouse from the day he becomes a dad. It never ends! The part of a dad is to provide a loving and supportive environment for their family. They should provide guidance and discipline to their children, serve as role models, and help them develop into responsible adults.…
Empathy In Classroom
Teachers and empathy. Teachers are a vital part of the educational system, responsible for nurturing the minds of the future. Tasked with educating and developing the child, including taking care of their emotional well-being. Therefore, it is paramount that teachers ought to have empathy. Empathy is the mastery of understanding and conveying the feelings of…
Powerful Ways To Overcome Fear
Sometimes even time does not help us get over and get through fears. Sweaty palms, palpitations, heaving breath, blank mind, perpetual fear of the ever so tricky exams. Been there and done that. However, I got some certificates that say I beat it. Exam fear is no joke. I struggled with it when I was…
4 Myths About Stay-At-Home Dads
From being called glorified babysitters and labeled as not earning an income, there are some myths. How wrong are these misconceptions about Stay-At-Home Dads, AKA SAHDs? Surprisingly I am not the first stay-at-home dad, and I won’t be the last. However, this time has been nothing short of a fantastic experience. But, to tell you…
Co-Parenting The Easy Way
The simple truth. Children are the casualties of divorce. Almost always. Divided between having two parents and the separated lifestyles of their parents. Co-parenting is typically one of the trickiest problems divorced parents overlook in a brand-new, untested relationship. Regarding the parents, they could deal with sentiments of rivalry, annoyance, and miscommunication. Furthermore, they intended…
Friends, How They Influence Kids
What is friendship in a kid’s life? I bet you can name your first friend without missing a beat! Not just any friend but the very first one. If you can’t, it’s OK to take a moment and think back. Take a simple stroll back in time, and you will suddenly remember that friend as…
Chores At Home
Here’s a thought for the weekend. ‘What must-do tasks should every household aim for kids to do?’ We all have had or still have chores to be done at home. Unless we have help at home. At some point, we had to clean and arrange something at home. Sometimes even cooking or meal prep had…
Date Night After Kids
Things were excellent at the beginning of your courtship, and it was just the two of you. The colours were bright, the sun was nice and warm, and the rain was magical. Ah, this was life. Something went right! Few years after all the sparks and reasons to live and be together. All that magic…
Parenting, The Gender-Neutral Way
Pink for girls and blue for boys is passé now. Neither should colours determine the gender nor codes followed. Most of the globe now work towards (most) or has moved forward and are trying to leave behind stereotypes. Thanks to practicing gender-neutral parenting. Despite there are still people who follow stereotypes. A portion of the population…
Building Routine With Kids
Routines… Sounds complicated. Yet, once set, it’s simple. Help kids feel secure, grow life skills, and accomplish healthy practices. Patterns help parents feel ordered, and it also relieves pressure. So what can parents do to make this a wholesome and fun experience for their young ones? Repetition of certain activities continuously and constantly help us…
Building Confidence In Kids
Attention Parents.!!! Does the question “How to create confidence in my child?” worry you? Let me tell you the steps to be taken if it does bother you. Building confidence in children helps them to feel good about themselves, make friends, focus on their strengths, take on harsh criticism, and more. Children with healthy self-esteem…
Growing Up Then And Now
Childhood is a phase that most of us would love to get back. The fun, joy, happiness, and carefree attitudes, need I go on? The best part is that we never learned anything systematically or logically for years. Unfortunately, today’s kids are being battered with so many schedules, classes, and events. I feel overwhelmed as…
Re-Parenting And Healing
You must have heard these as a kid or yelled at for asking questions – “why are you asking silly questions” or “Don’t waste my time. I don’t have time for your questions.” You are stupid” or “you cannot do anything right.” To make you do things, did you hear this: “It’s my way or…
Education And Positive Parenting
Education is a fundamental human right. An essential measure that can empower many individuals to live a life filled with hopes, dreams, and pursuits. For some, it paves a path to earn, engage and prevail; for some, education assists in making earnings and a living. Through education, one can live life to its most significant…
Schooling Home Vs. Traditional
Students had to swiftly adjust to remote learning from home when the bulk of the world went remote in early 2020 with the COVID-19 epidemic. As a result, many parents started to consider homeschooling instead of sending their kids back to the official school system. But how does home-schooling compare to regular education regarding benefits…
Breast Feeding And Milk Banks
Breast milk is also called liquid gold, which is literally “gold” for a baby since it is the most precious lifetime gift. Gold is precious, and so is mom’s milk, hence the comparison. Her milk is full of nutrition and has all the supplements needed to sustain a baby outside the womb. A baby inside…
Budgeting For A Baby
‘Children are priceless.’ Whoever voiced that never had any! Or maybe I read it wrong. Raising a child will cost you thousands and thousands a month. Maybe even more. It hinges on what you can or is capable of spending. How do you plan and build a fund for your little ones’ expenses while providing…
Feeding Your Toddler
It’s been a few months of stay-at-home and work-from-home for Daddy dear! The tot has grown a little more. The little baby can walk and run nearly as fast as Usain Bolt! Feeding, bathing, and napping are all roughly under control. New foods, colours, and textures are now in. So what’s next? Time changes things…
Catching em Bullies
Every parent desires to provide the finest education for their progeny in the best schools and universities across the country. Children look forward to leaving their nests and going to school to discover new things every day. Each child has their dreams as they grow up. But no one hopes that they will be taunted or…
Infant Care
A Stay-At-Home Dad’s Version Your little one has been home for just over two, three or about six 6 months now. At this point comes the decision on who stays back and/or who goes to work. Even how do we both go back to work but take care of our little sunshine at the same…
New Parent Check List
Preparing for the grand entry of your angel & what to expect!!! Alright. By now you are aware that your little miracle is arriving shortly. Excitement is in the air. But wait a minute! Have you made all the arrangements? Is there a hospital room tentatively booked? Did you get the right size diapers? Formula?…
What About The Mother
Everyone’s cheerful. Everyone’s eagerly awaiting to see the newborn! Is it going to be a boy or a girl? Is the baby going to be healthy? Will she/he latch properly? How much will they weigh? What colour? What time, What date? So much speculation and anticipation about the arrival and the early days of a…
Art Of Caring For Your Baby
Babies…They are adorable. Cute, noisy, funny, and cranky all at the same time. They grow up so fast that one day there comes a time, the inevitable happens and, it will be the last day you pick them up! Terrifying and captivating at the same time. Being a mom, all one can do is be…
Ivaans Mumma
I love who I am today. It is surreal, the whole experience. This whole motherhood chapter. As if something has drastically changed – priorities, pass-time, likes, preferences, lifestyle, habits, myself! I gave birth to a prince. I gave birth to Ivaan, whose name my partner and I chose for him during one of our very…
Three Months of Being Pregnant
I didn’t go through the nine to ten months of pregnancy like most women do – quite literally. I discovered the pregnancy only during my fifth month, so I didn’t notice the suffering of the first trimester and its nauseating consequences! I noticed quickening and that’s where my journey of being pregnant started. That’s what…
Surprised or Shocked
After all the Pandemic pressure and freedom to find myself on a deeper level, I was struck by something very unexpected. It was the last day of August when I decided to go to a gynaecologist to check how my Polycystic Ovarian Disease, or PCOD was doing. I was unwell for a while and the…
Happy Mothers Day
I’ve wished All my life to the One woman who has been Everything to me. Today I realise from now on, All my life I shall be wished A Happy Mother’s Day, From my son who is everything to me. Life has such mysterious and Profusely beautiful events Lined up that I am Grateful and…
How it Started
I have never understood life so deeply. It’s been months since my baby boy came into this world and I still am not over the fact that I was a completely a different person just a few months back. To begin with, I was not ready – leave alone ready, I was quite sure I…
Co Parenting A Two Way Street
You have just got a divorce decree in your hand. So, what next? If it was a high-conflict, abusive marriage that ended, it is unlikely that both spouses will be seeing eye-to-eye. But if it was a peacefully ending mutually filed divorce, the relationship is most likely going to be polite and civil. In both…
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