The Guilt of a Working Mom
A working mother can be competent, committed, and deeply loving, and still feel the quiet guilt of missing things, choosing things, and never being fully where she is expected to be.
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Motherhood Stories
Motherhood is where love, guilt, exhaustion, memory, and ordinary life keep bumping into each other. These stories are about the parts of being a mother that do not fit neatly into celebration, sacrifice, or advice.
This is a category for personal essays on motherhood without performance, perfection, or the pressure to turn every difficult moment into a lesson.
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5 Ways to reduce stretch marks during pregnancy
-by Anjana Malakar Your beautiful pregnant bump holds the most precious thing in the world, doesn’t it? But that gorgeous bump is also responsible for the not so pleasant “mommy scars” or stretch marks. Almost all pregnant women get stretch marks on their belly and breasts. Some even get them on their legs, thighs, back and arms. While
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Trip down memory lane – looking back at baby’s brain development with #FeedIQ
Motherhood is probably one of the most celebrated terms in human culture. In all cultures across the world, the mother is the primary caregiver and is expected to do everything right for the child. Each and every little or big thing she does, is going to shape a personality, a life. If that isn’t scary,
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Low Immunity in Kids and how to overcome it
Low Immunity in Kids is a very real problem today. Infants and toddlers are constantly sick because they are being exposed to the various viruses. As they grow older, their immunity becomes stronger and the ability to fight them increases. This reduces the frequency of sickness. However, every time the weather changes or they start
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The #WorkingMomsGuide Handbook
In the blink of an eye, it is the end of December! Throughout the month, I really enjoyed creating the WorkingMomsGuide. This is a project I intend to keep doing and hopefully I will have a few more posts in the coming year. Would you like to see more of those? Please let me know
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All About Christmas – a Christmas Activity Book
December is All About Christmas! Is it any wonder then that we have a lovely activity book for kiddos that is all about Christmas 🙂 What I Liked The book starts with the Nativity story and explains the birth of Jesus. Growing up, I did not know this story and had no idea why my
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5 Tips for managing maids and household help
Being a working mom is a game of balancing many things on a daily basis. Your work, kids, home and other social demands on your time. As any structural engineer will tell you, the key to balance is the right support. Thankfully, in India we do have support available in the form of household help.
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5 Tips to Choose Daycare Centers and Creche
Finding a daycare near me was one of the biggest tasks I had to do while relocating to Mumbai. I was very sure I wanted professional childcare while my daughter is still young. I was not comfortable in having a nanny at home while she is still in preschool. So finding a good Creche was the only
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Windmill Festival Mumbai
Windmill Festival is happening in Mumbai on 16th and 17th December at Jio Garden, Bandra Kurla Complex. This is the second season of the festival. Till recently, I did not know about such. festivals and some big ones, I did not really bothered about taking my daughter to those citing reasons of crowd and chaos.
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Why Do We Need Exams in School? #MicroblogMondays
“No exams? What!!! How will we know the progress of the kid?” “Exams must be there to know what the kids have learnt” “I wouldn’t know how my kid is doing unless there are regular exams. Weekly tests, unit tests, midterms must all be held!” When such opinions were put forth in my daughter’s school
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