Here is my first stint with potty training and N was without diapers by 17 months. Please read that post before you read this. A…
At 1pm I am standing outside his school gate to pick him up. I spot him walking in a line and his face lights up…
N is 3 and a half and he has been obsessed with learning about animals since March 2015. He had a few days of learning…
Continuing from the previous post, since I do get to review and try many carriers and also recommend carriers to the parents who come to…
I couldn’t decide between the two titles for this blog post. So I titled it with both. My own babywearing journey is so intrinsically tied…
Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Confident, Caring Kids By Susan Stiffelman. I am a parenting book junkie ever since I got handed a beautiful…
Nikhil was quite the horrible boy when we were growing up. He used to hit his little brother Amar, used to fight with all the…
Many of us start off knowing we want to breastfeed. First we set ourselves the 6-month exclusive target, then one year, and then some of…
The toddler years pass by in a blur of colds, coughs, fevers, teething related ailments and other infections. There was a time (before I took…
I’ve never been one to even attempt at keeping up with the Joneses. Why try when I find my heart is always drumming to a…
Mumbai dirty rainy day puddles have been trudged in with glee by my son! Be they mucky, be they sandy or be they generally gross…
Note from Aloka : When Aradhana – a mom of a two year old boy – approached me to guest blog I liked the idea…
We travelled with our 20 month old for three weeks. Our total flying time must have been over 45 hours and may I remind you…
This post on hormones and possible imbalances after nursing for many months has got a lot of hits ever since I posted it. It’s got…
Breastfeeding is natural. It’s also one of the toughest tasks a new mom has to face. Why is something so natural so dam hard? The…
I thought I’d write a quick update to this post on my potty-trained 17-month-old. Very soon after I wrote this (about 2 weeks ago) to…
I’d written my first post on Potty training here where I wrote about why the modern views on potty training where the literature points to…
When sleep ‘experts’ and books hand out solutions to beleaguered parents they are a one-size-fits-all solution and mainly catered to the slightly easygoing baby. The…
It’s been awhile since I updated this blog on N’s meals and weaning status. Here is my last post on this series. This was when…
A friend of mine first had an angel daughter and then her high needs son. Before he came along she went all over the place…
