Category: Mommy Pangs
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Why do Kids…?
So what if I am a grown up, even I have a lot of whyzzz. I am sure these are some universally true questions. WHY? do kids have to go potty when mom sits down to eat her meal? do kids always need attention when we are on the phone? do they eat things at other people’s house which…
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The iPad Generation
These days we are bringing up kids in a generation that we like to call the iPad generation. Kids can spend hours playing their favorite games on the tablet. Since most of us parents have a laptop that we are hooked on to 24/7, it is normal for our kids to feel that that’s the…
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The Attack of “Whys and Whats”
It is a crisp Sunday morning and you are snoozing comfortably in your warm bed and there it starts. Nope, it is not the buzzing of the alarm clock but the attack of “whys and whats” that your little one is unleashing on you. “Why are you sleeping till late?”, “What will we do today?”,”Why…
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Is Your Kid A Bully?
We as parents don’t even get to know when our little angels stop being angels and transform into bullies. It is difficult for us to find out that our child is bullying someone as they never come back home crying. But when a person of authority like a school teacher or some other kid’s parent…
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Is Your Kid Getting Bullied?
How do you recognize if your kid is getting bullied? Is it just something that kids do to other kids and eventually grow out of it? When should a parent or an adult intervene? Sometimes you do have kids who are extremely sensitive and cry at the drop of a hat. So you as a parent…
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I did not write on the wall, I just wrote behind the Couch!
My son loved to scribble on the wall. No matter how much I told him that it is a wrong thing to do he kept doing it. Even when I caught him writing on the wall with a pen in his hand and questioned him, he argued that the writing on the wall was a…
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Mother Knows The Best!
All of us as kids at some point of time have told our mothers (when she would correct us for something) – “Mom! you think you know the best?” Well, kids take a long time to realize that parents do know what is best for them – only when they themselves become parents is when…
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Mama, I’m feeling sick
My experience says that kids have an uncanny knack of falling sick when you absolutely don’t want them to. For example when you are getting ready for that much awaited wedding, or for their own birthday party, or for the vacation you had planned after a long time. I find the last one – the vacation…
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Eating Sugar? No mama
What do we have teeth for? I asked my daughter and quick came the reply -” For crunching candies? For biting?” Whaaat! I said in complete disbelief. Its high time, I thought, to let her know that other than being a self-defense tool and catering to her sweet tooth, teeth are also very useful for other things. Here’s…
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With or Without You
Being a mother of two it is quite a challenge sometimes to stop the wars between the two siblings. My older daughter once got so upset that she wanted to return her two-year brother to the baby shop where we got him from ;). She said she was “sick and tired” of him touching…
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Motherhood
Wait a min, are you also the ” meanest mother on earth”? Don’t worry? You share this trophy with millions of mothers around the world, who have earned it for telling their kids to do what’s right for them. Motherhood is the toughest job 24/7 with no salary, no vacation, no appreciation. But even though it…