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Top 15 Baby Care Myths

February 9, 2017 by nvshen Leave a Comment

When it comes to taking care of a child, mothers, and fathers face the future with a series of myths. Some of these well-known myths are real, but another part remains just myths.

Pregnancy and parenting are surely the hot topics on which everyone has something or the other to dole out advices on.

Here are some widely popular baby care myths busted with actual explanation. This is an attempt to segregate wheat from the chaff.

Myth No: 1- A Kaala Tikka wards off evil eye.

Fact-Sounds like true is it? Well, if there is evil, surely God would be there too. And if God is there, He will protect your baby from all evils. This myth holds no relevance and is discarded by many progressive families.

Myth No: 2- Oil massages are “Old”

Fact-Massages help in enhancing blood circulation and they also nourish the baby’s skin. According to doctors, a warm water bath after a massage can also help the baby sleep soundly.

Myth No: 3- Nursing a baby soon after birth helps in bonding

Fact-Though advised, but women who have a C-section or babies who straight go to the nursery need not take this too hard. A baby-mother relationship will eventually develop and a few hours or days of separation is not going to hamper it.

6 Reasons to Let Your Kids Do Dangerous Things

August 31, 2016 by nvshen Leave a Comment

Children should be given time to play outdoors if only to give them fresh air and exercise. Going to playgrounds also give them a chance to develop social skills. We should not limit our kids just trying to be overprotective to them.

reasons to let your kids do dangerous things

I recently heard an NPR interview with Gever Tully, the founder of the Tinkering School. He advocates letting kids do dangerous things! Oh, he’s not telling us to let our kids play with matches or meat cleavers. But he is suggesting that our growing concern about safety over the last few decades has resulted in important unintended consequences. We’ve narrowed children’s opportunities for exploring their world and limited our kids’ ability to experiment and learn by doing. Ever-present adult supervision has resulted in kids not learning to take responsibility for themselves.

Protective parents aren’t crazy. They are responding to the barrage of warning labels on just about everything and the culture’s expectations for parental involvement and vigilance. There have even been news stories of parents being reported to child protection services because they let their kids walk to school on their own or play unsupervised in their backyard. In some communities, parents are judged harshly by others if they let the kids take a walk in the woods or climb a tree.

I was lucky as a kid. Much of my grade school life was in a suburb that still had undeveloped woods and meadows. We kids followed some rules (at least as we understood them) for sandlot softball and badminton and made up rules for playing at being pirates or cowboys or astronauts. We constructed forts from old boards, sticks, big rocks and anything else that looked fort-like to us. We biked everywhere.

Yes, I know you’ve heard this sort of thing before. But it’s not my intention to add another “good ol’ days” rant to the Internet. Tully’s talk got me thinking about the things we learned from the freedom to explore and even to get hurt now and then:

ImaginationLittle League and swim team and soccer all do help our children develop strong bodies, learn how to follow rules and how to be members of teams. But they don’t spark a kid’s imagination.

Singaporean Climate-Friendly Fashion for Kids & Babies!

March 26, 2015 by nvshen

“As parents, we tend to usually get excited with new cute outfits we see at the store. Most often, we would quickly things that we think will fit our child. Hence, we forget that not all things we buy could really make our child happy. It is only ourselves that we are trying to please. This is definitely true when we buy clothes for our young ones.”

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As a parent, you would have often found yourself gushing over adorable and highly fashionable miniature sized outfits for children in prominent clothing stores. However, before making a rash decision and heading towards the payment counter, you might have questioned yourself, “Is this outfit really ideal for our climate?” That stylish leather jacket on which you had your sights set on for your son, or those lovely shin-high boots for your little girl will just have to be returned to their spots on the shelves. Rest assured, fashion for kids does not necessarily have to be impractical for our tropical weather while fulfilling the style factor. Your children can look absolutely spiffy in apparel that is suited for our sunny island!

Singapore’s temperature can soar up to 32 degrees Celsius on particularly scorching days; this most definitely demands lightweight and comfortable clothing to ensure that junior does not break out in a sweat and start throwing a tantrum. You will be glad to know that major fashion labels such as H&M, Cath Kidston and Carolina Herrera carry a range of chic and climate-friendly clothes for babies and children alike. Throw in local brand Baby Style Icon, and you have got yourself a quartet of variety to pick from for your little ones! Here are some of our picks from the collections of the above mentioned brands which (thankfully!) do not compromise on style while catering to us island dwellers.

What better way could there be to get the ball rolling than to address a homegrown label that is proving to be a hit with parents? Baby Style Icon was founded in July 2014 based on the passion to provide an option for parents to dress their children in hip and affordable outfits that were not readily available in the market. It features a collection of handpicked …

See more at http://singaporemotherhood.com/articles/2015/03/singaporean-climate-friendly-fashion-for-kids-babies/