Helping Parents Succeed
Tips on how to raise a happy and healthy family.
Think we know more than babies?
Think again.
A reader shared with me an interesting experiment she and her friends did when they weaned their babies.
I admit I don’t know about this when J and K were young (I wish I did as it must be interesting). And it’s called baby-led weaning. [Read more…]
I have to get something off my chest today.
I know I have mentioned this many times before. But I still want to do it.
One friend found it hard to contain her excitement as she managed to buy milk formula at a deep discount. She probably bought more than 10 tins.
She was happy on two counts: the savings and the formula she bought was one of the “best” brands available on the market.
It’s good for her 6-year old daughter. And she has got the ticket to health… or so she thinks. [Read more…]
Being a stay-at-home dad has a lot of thinking to do.
No. Not that type of thinking. It’s not about how to hit sales target. Nor is it about using blackhat techniques and NLP to close a deal.
But questions revolve around what to feed the family.
I admit packing a lunchbox can be a bit of a chore.
I always come to a mental gridlock when figuring out what I want to let J to bring to school for snack. [Read more…]
Children are not the only ones have the ticket to be sneaky, parents too can be crafty.
When you’re cornered, you have to find a way out.
I made almond milk this week. Not wanting to waste it, I forced myself to come up with new ideas to use almond pulp in my cooking.
What did I make? [Read more…]
Why children love to eat junk food and shun away from healthy food?
Running out of ideas what to do with the veggie-haters?
If you have one picky eater at home, read on.
Everybody knows fruits and vegetables are good for children’s health. And they are natural healers (and inhibitors) for common diseases. And numerous researches also prove that they can even help you ward off critical illnesses such heart disease and cancer.
The problem: your child runs away faster than a cheetah when being served with plant-based, unprocessed foods (also known as healthy foods).
There’s one simple solution to this problem. In fact, it’s not as difficult as you make it up to be.
Here is the 2-step system… [Read more…]