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Motherhood is virtually incomplete without the joyous practice of nursing the little one. Every mother enjoys and has been enjoying the practice for centuries without a doubt. Nursing a child is healthier as compared to bottle feeding him. A huge number of women are hesitant to breast feed their children in public only because they [...]

When the baby is finally out of the closeness of his mother’s womb, he sometimes feels a little unsettled or uncomfortable in the world outside. This means that he could easily get distracted and disturbed by the leg and arm movement of his family members or even for that matter, his own body movements could [...]

Whether you have a baby already or if one is on the way, childproofing your house is a must and it goes without saying. It may seem like a frightening task at times, but when you consider some of the information regarding child injuries at home, you begin to realize that even the smallest prevention [...]

One should know how to strike a prudent balance between his work and home especially as a responsible parent. It is of prime importance to spend quality and sometimes even quantity time with your child at home for the sake of bonding healthily with them. In case you as a parent fail to have a [...]

Parenting could be fun, exhausting, mind boggling or even a learning experience for many. They say, none of the parents are perfect in the world. Each one of them makes some mistake or the other in their way of bringing up kids. Hence parenting, when taken as an educative journey, turns out to be quite [...]

“Expectations lead to frustration”, holds true in many cases and respects. Be it parents of  a new born or even a woman married for decades. Wherever people expect, it only ends up in disappointment or dejection. Despite the aforementioned, we still continue to expect from each other for, after all we are human and not [...]

Children irrespective of their age love to nap most of the time. As a matter of fact, sleeping makes them strong and bouncy each time they wake up. Hence parents must always design their sleeping pattern according to the need of the hour so that none of the two suffers in the deal. There are [...]

There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to parenting toddlers. Every case has a different set of principals and operations that are to be carried out in the process. The main purpose behind toddler training or parenting still remains the child’s safety and well being which eventually makes the parents happy!
Bathroom training [...]

Painful gas can be bad experience for the child to endure. Gas is usually common in infants and crying can only communicate to the parents to know that the baby is in trouble. Try to prevent the gas that can build up bubble before starting to trouble the baby. It is advised that the mother [...]

When a baby is born in the family, the basic instinct of all the parents is to capture those early days on camera. Popularly used as postcard pics to inform friends and family about the new arrival, baby shower gifts, for keeping in the album to cherish and relive the moments later on in life.
But [...]

Travelling with kids can be fun provided is planned appropriately and all the arrangements are made beforehand. Here are a few tips for a happy holiday out with kids
Holiday spot: Holiday spot chosen should where every member of the family would have fun. It need not always be a top holiday destination but could be [...]

Most moms having their first child, get worried when they find their babies hiccupping often. But this is nothing to worry about and its nature’s way of getting the baby accustomed to the new world. In fact babies hiccup when they are in the womb too.
Causes for Infant Hiccups
Hiccups occur when the diaphragm muscle at [...]

We are all individuals and each one is unique. So some children may be more sensitive than the others. It’s good to accept it than to crib about it.
It’s not very easy handling these sensitive children. Here a few ideas on how to handle them.
Children may not directly show their emotions to the happenings but [...]

Growth chart is a graph which compares the growth of the children with age. Having a growth chart is very helpful. It helps to figure how exactly the child is faring in terms of their height and weight ration as well in achieving the milestones. If the child is lagging it would be visible and [...]

All parents love their children. But in their busy life style they don’t have the time to show their affection to the child. But for the healthy mental development of the child, showing the parental love to the child is very important. Here are 10 ways for the parents to show their love towards their [...]

A most common scenario which most parents and carer would have undergone with the children is that when out shopping the kids demand some unnecessary stuffs and start throwing temper tantrums when they get ‘no’ for an answer.
Most times the parents either budge in or let the child cry. Every parent asks why the child [...]

It’s a good debatable topic whether the parents should pierce the child’s ear when they are young or should they choose to pierce it when they grow older. Is it really necessary to pierce boy baby’s ears? The debates on these topics have been going on forever and will go on for ever. As supporters [...]

Child needs enough rest to be fresh and healthy. Sleeping is an important aspect of their daily routine. When the kids are young, they get tired easily and need to rest from time to time. If they don’t get that rest then they get cranky and teary.
A newborn child would spend most of its time [...]

It takes a lot to punish their child for the parents. But it becomes important at times to discipline the child. Punishing is not the only form of disciplining. There are other techniques as well. As each child is different, the means of disciplining the child should be different too. The punishment should also differ [...]

Divorce of the parents doesn’t change just the lives of two people but their children too. In fact, they are the ones who are most affected. Most often the divorced parent would be immersed in their own grief and hardly bother to sympathies with the child. This makes the child feel as though they have [...]