This LeapFrog LeapReader review has been way overdue. My son got the LeapFrog LeapReader for his second birthday back in 2018. Honestly, I stuffed it in the cupboard because on the packaging it said: 4-8 YEARS. However, just before his third birthday, my husband decided to open it and show it to Zaviar. I was hesitant and…
I’ve been wanting to write about raising readers for quite a while now. My husband and I had been thinking about teaching my four-year-old how to read. We really wanted to instill the love of reading in him and even pondered over sending him to one of those places that teach children reading but never got around…
These are trying times Baba, I know you’re putting on a brave face I get my resilience from you and I am learning how to slow my pace Walk with me Baba, you please slow down too Play with me so I forget that I can’t go out and still enjoy this time with you I know…
Isn’t it every woman’s dream? To mold your own boyfriend or husband to fit every idea you have ever had in your mind. To make him the perfect friend, the perfect lover, the perfect shopping partner, the perfect yes-man, the perfect father; to make the man just perfect. The perfect husband. Let me tell you how…
Honestly, the first time I became a mother, the first few days, while I was at the hospital, I was in a daze. I don’t even remember who came and went, so forget about figuring out my baby’s routine. After my c-section, I was in pain and on painkillers so his schedule was the last…
Potty training and especially potty training boys is always the elephant in the room as soon as your child learns how to walk and talk, sometimes even before that. You get expert advice from every Tom, Dick, and Harry you meet whether or not they’re a parent, that it’s high time you train your child….
Throughout my pregnancy, I wondered how I would love another child as much as you. You made me a mother. Also, you were the perfect baby. You never gave me a sleepless night. This one had super high standards to live up to. You, my little darling, taught me what love really is. How could…
Conversations with your little ones can evoke a million emotions in you especially when you are raising sensitive boys. There is somehow a stigma around them being sensitive because it deviates from the “boys will be boys” concept that has become so widely accepted. But the world is changing and realizing the rut it has gotten itself…
I had an interesting conversation with my three-year-old today. I asked him what he wanted to be when he grows up since he changes his mind every other day. In the summers, it was firefighter, then more recently it was doctor. However today, he said magician. And then went on to explain that he saw Joey Magician…
What do you do when your three-year-old shows signs of “I don’t like pink” syndrome? How do you convince him that colors don’t have a gender? You tell him “But Ama and Baba love pink!” When that doesn’t work, and you need him to wear a shirt in the morning, and he says no because it’s…