Eyes on the prize! Why is goal setting so important in life ?Frankly without a purpose in life all that we will be is a lost soul. We all go through this at various stages of life. I found myself in such a square six months after my delivery. I went from working 18 hour…
Declutter your life: Start from your home
No one imagined how exhausting staying indoors 24/7 could be. Thanks to the pandemic we all now know the life of a new mom, staying indoors, sleepless and tired for weeks at stretch. Life Hack version Home and Mind. They are now one and the same. They always were. We took very lightly how much…
Breastfeeding Dad : Role of the Father in Breastfeeding
As oxymoronish as it may sound hear me out. The first week of August is celebrated as the #breastfeedingweek . Why celebrate something as natural as feeding your baby in the first place ? According to the study by UNICEF only 1% of the children are exclusively breast fed upto 6 months of age. There…
Bad Mom to Bad Ass Mom : transformation story.
You are a Bad Mom! Stand in the mirror and say that to yourself. The day you don’t move a muscle on your face hearing that statement is the day you would have won the battle. You have truly become a Bad Ass Mom. Everyone you ever meet is going to have an opinion about…
‘A’ Day – It takes two to parent.
It takes two to parent!What I am grateful for… When Sey was born after 42 hours of labour I was exhausted. In fact I had closed my eyes for a minute to wake up after four hours. Then the baby was fed and my mother offered to take care of him in her arms. Mahi…
Confessions of a Muddled Mom : Theme Reveal.
Your little human has managed to turn it 360 degrees and a quarter. I know mine did. I feel like I have known him for ages. I know what he is gonna do the next second. I know what he feels and what he is trying to say.But it wasn’t always like this always. A…
What is the relevance of balanced nutrition for adults in the new normal?
Once I became a mother, I realized there were no cheat days in motherhood. One had to parent from dawn to dusk and the nights are not kind either. That was when I actually started paying attention to what nutrients went into my plate as opposed to how many calories I was consuming because once…
5 habits to help you be a happy mom.
The first couple of years as a mother is the toughest. Especially if you are a mom for the first time. The main reason is because these are the years you are most gullible and allow yourself to be judged by everyone around you. If you take notice everyone starting from your mother-in-law, next door…
Book Review : Excess Baggage by Richa S. Mukherjee
Book BlurbOf late, Anvisha Punjabi can’t seem to get anything right. She is in the middle of ending her second marriage, barely able to keep any friends and repeatedly getting into trouble at work. And if all that weren’t enough, she has to put up with her gregarious and overbearing sixty-seven year old mother as…
Should I vaccinate my pre-schooler? Is it even necessary?
It was a cool winter evening and I was particularly proud of the new floral mask I was sporting. I wanted to show it off to my mom-friends gang who walk together in the society lanes as our kids play about around us. Come December, the talks are all about school admissions always. Though Sey…
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