Bedtime Stories and Your Children

How many parents still tell bedtime stories to their children, honestly?  I mean let’s face it, bedtime stories take up minutes of your precious time as a busy parent. Sometimes, the extra minutes that you should have spent on a nice warm bath still goes to that mommy-and-baby-bonding-time called storytelling. 
I just recently started this practice of [...]

Help! My Baby is Teething…

Isabel turned five last December 2007 yet, for me, she’ll forever be my baby.  This is my daily notion and I was quite surprised to find out that she’s teething so soon!  Her two, central, lower milk teeth (well according to this chart they’re her incisors) are giving way to two, little permanent teeth. 
I’m thinking, ain’t she a [...]

A Child’s Achievement is a Parent’s Pride

I often worried about my daughter Isabel’s Math skills because she often struggled with this subject.  It turned out that she didn’t relax when it was me who was teaching her (I could be very strict at times).  I was so wrong because Isabel recently came home with her Math Pre-Quarterly test paper and she actually [...]

Kids, Pets and Child Development

Don’t you just notice how kids love animals? Take for instance my daughter Isabel who can’t seem to get over her new pet kitten. This pet is a welcome addition to our family and it has also brought us many lessons:

We had an agreement that since our daughter is the official pet owner that she [...]

Loving the Kids and all the Mess that Comes with Them

When a child is born into a home, the elderly often say that they are blessings from up above. Most parents would immediately agree once they see that tiny, pinkish creature with little hands and feet looking blindly back at them. Yet as the days go by, reality would dawn to these couples that a [...]

Time Management: An Essential Aspect of Motherhood

Mothers, unlike fathers, have to face the reality of having to balance their career while being a mom. Men, well, they have the mind set that they are supposed to earn for their family that is why they don’t have to worry about physically taking care of their children.
It is a common sight that women [...]

The Strength of a Single Mom

Not a lot of women, nowadays, are blessed with a good relationship with their partners; and when the relationship becomes more complicated as a child comes along, most women just prefer to let go rather than to live bitter lives.
There are hundreds if not thousands of single moms globally. The statistics can be so alarming [...]

Mug-of-Cold-Chocolate-Moments with my Kids

A normal day for me would be:
9:00am-2:00pm — Preparing meals; tidying things up around the house; eating lunch; helping my husband get ready for work (he works at 3:00pm-12mn).
2:00-4:00pm — Nap time with the kids (sometimes if I have really tight deadlines with my articles, I just sleep ’til 3:00pm then I start working from [...]

The Strength of a Single Mom

Not a lot of women, nowadays, are blessed with a good relationship with their partners; and when the relationship becomes more complicated as a child comes along, most women just prefer to let go rather than to live bitter lives.
There are hundreds if not thousands of single moms globally. The statistics can be so alarming [...]

The Greatest Gift a Father Could ever Give

Many fathers go through their lives wondering whether they have been good fathers to their children. When their kids go astray they either blame themselves or their wives. Where have they gone wrong?
If you would analyze it, there is more to parenting than just making the entire family comfortable by purchasing a new home, a [...]