Category: Parenting

— Family, Parenting —

Learning To ‘Be’ From The Cradle Up: On The Desire To Constantly Entertain My Baby

November 17, 2017
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One of the elements that I have come to understand as essential to one’s personal growth—mental, spiritual, and emotional—is the ability to sit quietly and just be.  Of course nowadays, there is always something (or rather, a bunch of things!) that is clamouring for our attention, and so we are often left without a second… Read More Learning To ‘Be’ From The Cradle Up: On The Desire To Constantly Entertain My Baby

— Family, Parenting —

Honouring Our Parents By Parenting Our Children

November 10, 2017
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It feels like whatever I do, I can never repay my parents for everything they have done for me.  And since I got married, I feel like whatever my husband and I do, we can never repay our parents for everything they have done for us as individuals and as a couple. And—not to sound… Read More Honouring Our Parents By Parenting Our Children

— Family, Parenting —

Excellence And Detachment In Parenting: Reaching That Tough Sweet Spot

November 3, 2017
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There are many reasons why people have kids.  Some of these reasons are downright amazing, some of them are just absolutely terrible, and most of them lie somewhere in between these two extremes.  Some of my friends have done it because it’s just the next logical step in their lives.  Some of them did it… Read More Excellence And Detachment In Parenting: Reaching That Tough Sweet Spot

— Family, Marriage, Parenting —

Parenting and Marital Happiness: Not Mutually Exclusive

October 6, 2017
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I am a bit of a nerd, just in case you haven’t noticed yet.  I love reading studies and reflecting on the implications of the results found.  However, I also can be quite harsh when it comes to studies that demonstrate a combination of laxity in their data analysis and over-confidence in their interpretation.  I… Read More Parenting and Marital Happiness: Not Mutually Exclusive

— Family, Marriage, Parenting —

Strengthening Your Marriage: Continuing The Work After Baby

September 22, 2017

Things can get quite…  Disorganised, shall we say?  After a baby is born.  One of the pieces of advice my husband and I took to heart was to not forget about our marriage and each other, and to make space for one another. We have found that the devil—or in this case, the angel?—is in… Read More Strengthening Your Marriage: Continuing The Work After Baby

— Family, Happiness, Marriage, Parenting —

Strengthening a Marriage Through the Common Experience of Raising Children

September 15, 2017

I recently wrote about how I didn’t think marital happiness and raising children were, despite what some might say, mutually exclusive.  But my husband and I had seen how some of our friends’ marriage suffered after having children, and so we decided to do research and take preventative measures to make sure it wouldn’t happen… Read More Strengthening a Marriage Through the Common Experience of Raising Children

— Beauty, Family, Motherhood, Parenting —

Makeup Tips for New Moms: Do It Wise ‘Cause You Can’t Do It Twice

September 8, 2017

One of the consistent pieces of advice given to new moms that I have come across over the years is that they should take care of themselves, and that a little makeup goes a long way.  But I find that the advice doesn’t delve much more than that—until now. I rounded up some makeup tips… Read More Makeup Tips for New Moms: Do It Wise ‘Cause You Can’t Do It Twice

— Family, Parenting —

If You Want To Be A Good Parent, You Have To Read This

September 1, 2017

Apologies for the clickbait worthy title, but as you will see, it’s basically the perfect opening to this post.  Because I think I have found the two things that every person needs to do be a good parent—a big “ah-ha” a couple of fellow parents and I have had recently and that I want to… Read More If You Want To Be A Good Parent, You Have To Read This

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How Many Children and How Far Apart They Should Be: Does It Really Matter?

August 25, 2017

The children question…  It was bound to happen—although I didn’t expect it to happen so soon after giving birth. When my baby was only a handful of weeks old, someone broke the ice and asked when my husband and I would be getting more children.  Of course, at the time, all we could think about… Read More How Many Children and How Far Apart They Should Be: Does It Really Matter?

— Family, Health, Parenting —

How Do You Look So Good? Parents Share Tips on Nurturing Their Own Health

August 18, 2017

It seems that the health of parents is of big concern to many; the younger the offspring, the higher the concern.  I reached out to a number of parents in my network and asked them for their best tips in four categories of health: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical.  I then picked the one or… Read More How Do You Look So Good? Parents Share Tips on Nurturing Their Own Health