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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

How to Protect your Children from Online Pornography

My children are very young (my daughter is currently 5 and my son is going to be 3 very soon) but they are intelligent children and they are starting to ask so many questions about so many things that happen around them. When these questions start to arise, parents often wonder how they would answer [...]