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  I have previously shared my experience of potty training my son in the most gentle and non-aggressive manner. I absolutely admit that I was driven by my own need as a parent to meet this milestone, gently and at my child’s own time and pace. There however are several approaches to potty training kids,Read more

7 Responses For Calming An Impatient Toddler Toddlers and kids can be highly impatient. Mine can repeat the same thing every 10 seconds till I do it! Needless to say this brings about the best in me! It is times like these that I give in to yelling and exhibit the worst of my personality.Read more

Gentle Potty Training Method For Toddlers I have in my interactions with parents very often noticed that moms and parents are rather quizzed about when it is a good time to start potty training their toddlers. In my previous blog I talked about my experience and how as a parent one can tell whether yourRead more

7 Potty Training Readiness Signs In Toddlers Potty training! These two words gave me a shudder.  No kidding! I have just done so much research on this one subject that I could’ve earned myself a Ph.D on this one! It put so much pressure on me when a whole bunch of my friends boasted thatRead more

Teaching Your Child To Appreciate A Different Child/A Differently Abled Child This has happened with me. I was at a playground with Ruhaan. I saw a mother with a child who was different. I would have loved to go over and say ‘hi’ but was not very sure how to do it. There were questionsRead more

30 Simple Parenting Hacks Parenting isn’t cake walk but it can be made into a smoother one with some simple Parenting Hacks and tricks. I absolutely wish that someone had compiled such a list of creative and viable Parenting Hacks that I could have escaped to in my earlier days of mommyhood. These parenting hacksRead more

Independent eating habits in a baby is a natural way for him to understand cues for his hunger and fullness. But unfortunately for a lot of babies, they always have someone waiting on them hand and foot. A doting dadaji (grandfather), an over-indulgent dadima  (grandmother), naniji and nanaji (maternal grandmother and grandfather) being proxy forRead more

With these 7 quick tips, say ‘tadaaaa’ to the Absent Minded Professor in you! For those of you who are following me, you must have read in my previous blog about the earth shattering experience I had!! (http://www.motheropedia.com/my-learning-from-absentmindedness/) My mom attempted consoling me by narrating  an incident wherein my dad (who had just separated fromRead more