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How To Talk So Kids Will Listen
This is going into the category of a bloglet viz it’ll be brief. There’s a book my husband bought me once the brat started pre-primary…it’s called How To Talk So Kids Will Listen And Listen So Kids Will Talk. Since the book … Continue reading
Posted in challenges, cognitive dissonance, family, funny ha-ha, home, how in the world, in this day and age, Indulgence, Life, life's lessons, matter of fact, MLM, modern families, mother and child, musing, parenting, people, raising kids, Red, SAHM, what women want
Tagged acceptance, adjustment, balancing act, changes, children, confusion, discipline, endurance, expectation vs. reality, fatigue, growing older, growing pains, MLM, musing, raising a child, realizations, Red, tiger mom, wistful
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What I Learnt From My Kid’s School
Courtesy Facebook’s memories I get to know about how and what I was thinking not only on a time a specific time in the past but also how I was feeling. And when I wrote this post I was a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the past, challenges, cognitive dissonance, education, health, how in the world, in this day and age, Learning, Life, matter of fact, MLM, mother and child, musing, parenting, people, raising kids, SAHM, self-awareness, self-improvement, the human mind, what kids want, what women want
Tagged acceptance, achievements, adjustment, affection, balancing act, changes, children, confusion, contentment, discipline, emotion, expectation vs. reality, grade school kid, growing older, growing pains, growing up, hindsight, kids, MLM, musing, nostalgia, raising a child, realizations, teachers, teaching a child, tiger mom
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The Mine Field That Is My House
Getting to and into bed turns into an obstacle course full of adventure in the dark! So what else is new? Continue reading
Posted in challenges, cognitive dissonance, family, home, how in the world, Life, MLM, mother and child, musing, parenting, raising kids, rants, SAHM, turbulence, what kids want, what women want, WTF
Tagged anger, balancing act, changes, children, discipline, endurance, expectation vs. reality, fatigue, growing pains, kids, MLM, musing, raising a child, summer holidays, tiger mom
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The Laundry Bugbear
I can totally understand why certain people cross over to the dark side and embrace OCD. Well, given that we’re talking of OCD am guessing the embracing is a compelling act, ‘cuse the pun, por favor. So laundry…yeah. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in challenges, cognitive dissonance, family, grub, home, how in the world, Learning, life's lessons, MLM, musing, rants, Red, SAHM, self-awareness, turbulence, what women want, WTF
Tagged a housewife's lot, acceptance, adjustment, balancing act, bleach, children, detergent, dirt, doing stuff you don't want to, expectation vs. reality, growing older, keeping clean, stain treatment, washing clothes
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Co-Sleeping…A Parent Reflects
One of the first things I bought when I got pregnant, was a cot for my baby. It was nice, smooth with rounded edges and had teething shields on both the rails. It worked well when the brat was a … Continue reading
Posted in challenges, education, family, happiness, home, Indulgence, Learning, mother and child, parenting, raising kids, SAHM, what kids want, what women want
Tagged acceptance, affection, balancing act, changes, children, co-sleeping, contentment, cuddling my child, emotion, how to raise kids, independence, making the right choice, personal space, sleeping patterns, space to sleep, when I go to sleep
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After School Huffiness
The brat got off the school bus with two holes in the school uniform that hadn’t been there when he’d got on the bus in the morning. When I asked him (with a slight frost in my voice) he told … Continue reading
Bloglet: Repartee
I am currently in what I imagine is a near-Cinderella stage. Drippy nose, swollen face and mopping up the red blood (poster color) that MLM generously painted on his T-Rex’s teeth and pretty much all over on an off-white tiled … Continue reading
Posted in family, funny ha-ha, health, home, how in the world, kids at play, Life, Love, matter of fact, MLM, modern families, musing, parenting, raising kids, rants, SAHM, what kids want, what women want, WTF
Tagged adjustment, affection, anger, balancing act, boredom, children
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