Motherhood
Dealing with your baby’s gender
One of the most common issues parents have to face is accepting the baby’s gender. Aside from expecting a healthy baby, most parents have expectations about their desired gender for their baby. This is most apparent in delivery rooms. Parents can sometimes, unintentionally, show dissatisfaction if they’ll find out the opposite of their expectations. Ultrasound [...]
How Does a Mother Accept Her Own Imperfections?
A mother is a human being and just like everyone else has bad days which show although she may try to conceal it. She knows exactly what she needs to do to build self esteem in her children, to talk to them so they will listen, to listen to them so they will talk. She [...]
Avoiding Sleep Deprivation When You Bring Home Baby
One of the hardest things to adjust to when you first bring home your precious bundle of joy is that sleep seems to be gone forever. Not only do you have a sleep deficit built up from those last few uncomfortable weeks of pregnancy, now you have to get up every couple of hours and [...]
Baby Diapers: Disposable vs. Cloth
Disposable diapers are a relatively recent development stemming from back in the 1940s when women began to enter the workforce in greater numbers than ever before. Naturally, with many of the men off to war and the women working, there simply wasn’t the time and resources available to the family anymore so many convenience products [...]
Controlling Your Anger around Your Children
We have all been angry at one time or another and we know how paralyzing and debilitating it can be no matter the reason or situation. But if you unleash your anger on your children, in can terrify and degrade them. Physical and verbal abuse of children is always wrong for the long-term and can [...]
