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Your child spends too much time watching TV?

It’s a common complaint that today’s kids watch too much TV. While the time spent on watching television is definitely a concern, an equally important issue is the television content and programs that today’s children are exposed to. The question is, are they watching the right programs?

Parents Need to Take Charge of Television

With most households owning at least one television set, and the commercial cable system offering a large number of channels broadcasting content of all genres and ratings, it isn’t always easy to control what your kids watch. … Continue Reading

Baby Massage: The Home Therapy for your Baby’s Health

A professional oil massage from time to time ensures a all-round healthy development of your baby. In the absence of professional service, you can do it by yourself at home – at least at the basic level. In fact, the magic of your hand will work far better, if you know the right techniques. Here are a few tips on how to do the basic massage-at-home.

First, give the massage when the baby is relaxed and active. Massage after 30 minutes of feeding. Create a sedate dimly lit, warm atmosphere in … Continue Reading

The new Mom and the Problem of Baby Blues

The name Baby Blues, unlike what it seems to suggest, is not a problem in babies. It is essentially the temperamental upsets that a mother experiences following child birth. In a typical case of baby blues, the new mother turns very baby bluessensitive, easily breaks down and becomes irritable, feels lonely and restless.

Normally, baby blues appear in some new mothers as a result of various anxieties, hormonal changes, unfounded concerns etc. These feelings are only temporary and as they slow down in about a few weeks, the problem automatically fades … Continue Reading

Breastfeeding: The Best that you can do for your Baby

In recent times, breastfeeding has fortunately and rightly regained its importance, after being irresponsibly ignored in favor of unfounded logic. This re-visiting of an age-old wisdom and breastfeedingunderstanding is a god-send to mankind. Breastfeed your baby; there is nothing better than this that you can do to your baby.

Just before the last two decades, people had wrong notions about breastfeeding. A vast majority of lactating mothers felt breastfeeding was detrimental to their looks. … Continue Reading

The Wondrous Transformation of Your Eight-year Old

One of the most intriguing things is the way the children grow. Did you ever notice what changes your little son has undergone growing into an eight-year old now?

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Having learnt so many things over the years, your eight-year old is now seeing a new phase. He has now acquired an outlook that makes him entirely different from what he has been all these years. He is more explosive and exploring than before. He has a strong urge to be independent, self-reliant and likes to … Continue Reading

A Swine Flu Guide for all parents

Have you ever thought about the people who lost their near and dear ones because of a mysterious killer disease? Finally they discovered it to be Swine Flu, but it was too late then. Only a little awareness about this pandemic disease could have saved their beloved. You can stop this from happening to you. How? Well, read on to know more.

Swine flu also called “H1N1” is the most contagious flu known so far and has been declared as a worldwide pandemic by the … Continue Reading

Escapades of your six-year old: Some Helpful Hints

Raising your child is any time a tough test. As your child grows up through several phases, as a parent you need to apply different tricks of the trade.

If your little fellow is too exploring that is because this world puzzles him non-stop. Every moment he experiences a ravenous urge to learn newer things. When he goes exploring, teaching him discretion is a difficult task.

Now, he is 6. He can differentiate between intentional behaviors and accidental happenings. In the course of his explorations often things that happen are just accidents. You need to remember that he is too innocent to … Continue Reading

Marriage may end but the parenting happiness can be shared

Divorces are no news; they are so common. A divorce is not always a break up driven by dislikes and hatred. It can be just parting on certain reasoned out grounds. When this happens in homes where there are children, the parting parents can have an understanding and continue to share the parenting experience.

When a marriage ends with a divorce, it need not necessarily be seen as a failure. A divorce can be a mutually understood and accepted parting. In many marriages where the couple begets children, the status of being married to each other ends but their mutual care … Continue Reading

Handle your Partner and Children equally

You look lovingly at him and he peeks into your eyes with an equal amount of desire. You want to be alone with him and spend the entire life just looking in to his lovely eyes. Waa!! You both are shaken out of your reverie. You push your husband away and run to gather your two year old kid in to your arms. Poor husband! He is left out in the cold and quietly gets back to his computer and tries to focus on the monitor.

This is a usual scene unfolding in most of the household, irrespective of country, religion, … Continue Reading