Do you search your child’s schoolbag? Run through his drawers? Or monitor his computer usage trails?
One of the more difficult stages of parent/child relationships occur during the teenage period. Boundaries as to where your teenager’s privacy should be respected is such a tough thing to do. As children grows, they’ll start to assert independence. They’ll want more time privately by themselves. They’ll want to make decisions independently.
If I get a penny everytime someone asks why I do not hire a foreign maid to look after my baby so I could get back to work. Well you get the idea. And this is one of the many reasons why I am always worried letting some stranger taking care of my baby without family supervision. Watch this video clip showing an Indonesian maid was caught on CCTV hitting, kicking and violently shaking a two-month-old baby boy by his Singaporean parents.
I think my baby Clarisse has entered what is called a missing-mummy phase. She’s a week into her 8th month and typically that’s when it happens.
Yesterday I visited a school mate of mine. She has a baby girl one month younger than my baby Clarisse. When I went into the house, I was surprised her baby smiled when she saw me. I carried her and instead of crying, she seemed so happy.
Her pleasant reaction to strangers is a far cry from my baby Clarisse. And lately, her sensitivity towards strangers seems to have gotten worst. She would cry for mommy whenever strangers try to carry her. When she’s in an unpleasant mood, she’d even cry before someone even touches her. Just a few weeks ago, she was much braver and open to strangers.
… or is it? Yesterday, I woke up early in the morning around 5.30am to nurse my baby Clarisse. I went to the bath room after that and when I came back in to the room, I heard baby Clarisse saying “Ma…Ma…” as soon as she saw me walk through the door. She had been making similar sounds for more than 2 weeks but that morning, it really sounded like she’s calling me Mama. So I’m not sure if she’s really calling out to me or just making some random sound. Anyway, I was very delighted to hear something which sounded so close to that heart-melting word, I gave her a hug. She smiled back at me. She never did call me ‘Mama’ ever since though. Bummer!
It was in major newspapers a few days ago, if you missed it.
Read how Beijing’s first smoke-free restaurant chain, Meizhou Dongpo, is losing so many customers, it is close to going out of business. As much as I attest to ban smoking in restaurants, Meizhou Dongpo’s noble decision to go at it alone is indeed suicidal. Goes to show it takes a radical anti-smoking enforcement by the government to make a dent in the number of smokers in any country.
To all you health conscious folks out there, read and weep …
Have you come across mothers carrying baby in a sling that consists of a piece of cloth and two metal rings? That’s a Maya Wrap, one of severals types of baby slings. As simple as it looks, you’d be surprised how useful Maya slings are.
When my sister started to use a Maya Wrap 4 years ago, I recall saying it looked awful. It didn’t look pleasing to the eye on first impression, I must admit. That’s the first time I saw one and at that time, hardly anyone around the neighbourhood has seen one, let alone used it. When my sister used it in public, people would stare and amused to see a baby inside the sling. With his head peering out. Like a baby kangaroo in a pouch.
Aesthetics aside, my sister explained and showed me how useful it is. It was my first time seeing a Maya Wrap type of baby sling in action. I was impressed!
I get annoyed when sales people come up to me out of no where and start babbling non-stop about products or services I have absolutely no interest in. Majority of them are credit card promoters. These days, my frustration with sales people hit a new high.
It is so annoying to have inconsiderate sales people approach when my baby Clarisse had just dozed off. I don’t know about your baby, but Clarisse is an extremely distractable baby. It’s a chore to get her to nap when my husband and I are out shopping.
My uncle has a 5-year-old daughter named Sasha. For some time, little Sasha has a reputation of being a spoilt brat among our relatives. But that’s just hearway. I’ve never seen her antics so I had my reservations. Until one particular evening during a family get-together at a restaurant dinner …
When we reach the restaurant, little Sasha was so adorable sitting quietly with her parents. Behaving nicely until his parents ordered the dishes. While we waited for the food to be served, Sasha started get restless and asked her mother to go buy some toys. My uncle and aunty excused themselves and went out to find toys to please her. They asked us not to wait for them to start the dinner if they come back late. They came back 30 minutes later. Just in time to dig in as the all the dishes were served by then.
My sister called me today. She wanted to know if there’s an easy and effective way to make Internet surfing safer for kids. That means blocking websites with adult content, violence, unsafe chatrooms and virtually any stuff that’s deemed unsuitable for kids. Her children, aged 7 and 4, are very computer savvy. Browsing the web is literally child’s play these days. It’s very important to keep unsafe content out of their reach.
I thought I’d share with you a simple way to prevent your kids, and everyone else in the house, from accessing malicious websites. For adults, weeding out pornography sites is easy but phishing websites are much harder to detect. Phishing refers to dummy websites setup by pranksters to steal your private data like usernames, passwords, credit card details and such.
When I found out I was pregnant, I started to avoid second-hand smoke as much as I could. Until now, I would get up and move to another table if someone close by lits up a ciggarette. Call me a health freak, I don’t care. I just don’t want my baby inhaling ciggarette smokes. She’ll have plenty of time to deal with second-hand smoke when she grows up. Until then, I’ll gladly be responsible for the air she breathe now.
My husband and I went out for breakfast this morning. We took our baby Clarisse along. It’s a Saturday morning and the food court was thronged with people out for a morning meal. We sat down and 5 minutes later, two men sitting on tables beside ours lit their ciggarettes. We have not ordered our food, so we left for another table and hoped no one around us would smoke.
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