Hand-written birthday cards and sorry letters on your bedside table. These are just a few of the joys of this stage of raising your children. From four to twelve, we can keep being their confidante and best friend if we stop bossing around these tiny bosses. Not known as the hardest part, because children are independent and like to do things themselves, this is where the homework struggles begin.
When young children, particularly toddlers, ask about how babies are made, it can be a bit daunting to know how to respond. As a parent or caregiver, it’s important to approach this topic with sensitivity and honesty, while also keeping in mind your child’s age and level of understanding. Remember, nearly every kid has asked…
Why has this world created a control or standard for normalizing things? Anything or anyone that deviates from the control is considered abnormal, irregular, unhealthy, or whatever word fits in according to the type of thing or person we are talking about. Likewise, behavioral issues that are pronounced “misfit” for a certain person, could be…
Like all mothers, I always wanted my child to learn more. I did not just want him to know the answers but I also wanted him to know which questions to ask and how to think critically when a problem is present. For this purpose, I always wanted my son, Musa, to get a STEM…
The other day, my six-year-old and I had a very interesting conversation about the word “no” and eventually the concept of “no means no.” Honestly, I don’t remember the context but I’ll tell you what I remember. I was telling him that no is a complete sentence to which he giggled. “When someone says No,…
Unschooling is an interest-led approach to education, where the parents act as facilitators and supporters of their child’s education rather than take on the role of teacher. If someone had told me a few years ago that I would be homeschooling my two children with multiple special needs, I probably would have laughed or just…
As a parent, your concern about your child’s eating habits and patterns is inevitable and justified. From the moment you start weaning your little one, the challenge of what to feed and what not to feed begins. Most children are picky or reluctant when it comes to food items, especially if they are trying them…
While writing sentences as part of his homework, my six-year-old came excitedly to me to ask me the spelling of penis. After an obvious double take, I asked him to tell me what his sentence was first. He then brought his notebook and showed me a page-long sentence describing a lollipop. Imagine. Apparently, the lollipop…
I don’t know if you remember about my firstborn having a tiff with the color pink. To this day, he doesn’t like it very much because in his head he associates it with girls and he thinks it’s a girly color. This has nothing to do with what he observes at home or even at…
As a parent, dealing with your young one’s constipation issues can be one of the trickiest challenges you will have to face. Almost every child develops constipation at one point or another in their early years, and it is fairly common in babies. However, constipation can be a cause of discomfort and pain for children…
The other day at the grocery store, my daughter Lyra was growing fussy as we stood in line for checkout. She’d just spent over an hour playing with her friend in the hot sun and was teething. She’s also a year old. Fussiness is understandable. It’s expected. I readjusted my hold on her and gave…