Our little one Miss A is a toddler now. I can hardly believe she is turning 2 soon. We are going through that phase where she says no to everything and tantrums about everything that doesn’t go her way. I remember this phase well with the other two as well. And I remember other Mom friends and how they handled…
Happy Parents…
Happy parents make for happy kids – you’ve heard that before right? I totally agree. So what do you do if you’re unhappy in your relationship? What really is the best way for you and your children? I’ve know many folks of my parents’ generation that stuck together even though the love was long gone. Whether because of the children,…
Play to your strengths…
I attended a short course at work once that really shifted the way I thought about development and productivity. Up until that point whenever I had an appraisal with my manager there was always a few points that he/she would point out where I had done well and a few where I could have done better. Invariably the focus for…
When you’re not there…
I got back to work from my last maternity leave 7 ½ months ago and until now I haven’t had to travel for business. I like travelling on business (I guess most of us do) because you get to experience countries and cities that you’d probably otherwise not visit if you had to pay for it. But ever since I…
Reward charts, because they’re worth it!
We used a reward chart for the first time with Miss Z when we started potting training her. We weren’t sure she would understand the concept or whether it would have the desired effect, but we gave it a go anyway. The chart had several actions like sitting on the potty, pulling down her panties, actually doing something on the…
Baby on board…
Before I was ever pregnant I utterly lacked any sensibility for pregnant women and how the daily commute might be difficult for them. Once I became one of “them”, then I certainly could relate. Especially in those first 3 months of pregnancy when I was feeling extremely nauseous, but there was no visible signs of pregnancy. It was also too…
Do you have work/life balance?
I attended a Career Development day for women at my work the other day. There were about 100 women in a room, all from different parts of the company, and from different countries/backgrounds. There was a group of five women at our table. It was a very interactive day, with lots of discussions around issues and strategies to help women…
Privacy or Paranoia…
“It’s not the same as it was in the old days”. You, like me, probably heard this growing up time and time again. What you probably didn’t expect is that you would be thinking it, if not saying it, now that you have kids. I was born in the seventies. There were no devices and the TV was black and…
Mommy, there are bugs in my hair!
They certainly don’t mention this stuff in the baby manual. I have a vague memory of having my hair cut really short, like a boy, when I was about 4… or maybe I was 7… I hated it and I got mocked in school about it. I resented my Mom for having cut my hair so short for ages. Of…
Variety is the spice of life!
This is one of the first phrases my husband told me soon after we met. We were completely different people back then – he, a care-free spirit, a dreamer, a visionary. I, an analytical computer geek who wanted the world to fit in a symmetrical box. Much has changed since then and much as stayed the same. Miss Z was…