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Traveling with Kids (Part 3: Why it’s worth it)

10 May 2012   Lennie Gutierrez   No comments
Traveling with kids : Why it's worth it

The hassle of traveling is but a small price to pay for the experience you gain. As long as you prepare well and keep a positive attitude, your children and you will reap immeasurable benefits from travel.

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Traveling with Kids (Part 2: While Traveling…)

18 April 2012   Lennie Gutierrez   No comments
Traveling with Kids, Part 2

Now, a few ideas when traveling.

Prepare your child. They are never too young to understand, I think. I explain everything to my child. Even when she was an infant, I talked to her about what was going to happen or what was happening. “We are going on a trip! First, we will ride the car to the port, where all the ships are docked Then, we will get on a big ship. We will get our own cabin and maybe we can see dolphins! When we get there, we will ride a car to Lola’s house! You will see Lolo and Lola, aunties and uncles, and all your cousins! It is going to be so fun!”

One time, when we hit some turbulence flying somewhere over the South China Sea, I saw the fear flash across her face. I countered it with a calm voice, explaining, “We hit an air pocket! Isn’t this exciting? Is your tummy getting tickled?” Then I make light of it, “Bumpy-bumpy-bumpy bump! Wheeeee!” in time to the dips and rises. She giggled and asked for more air pockets.

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Rustan’s Supercenters and Human Nature promote natural baby care with Born Free campaign

13 April 2012   Team MJ   No comments
born free

Press Release: Rustan’s Supercenters, Inc. (RSCI), along with Mommy Mundo, most active Filipino mom portal and community partners with personal care and cosmetics brand Human Nature to champion natural baby care with Born Free: Making it Right from the Start, a campaign that introduces its Natural Baby Care Line as an ideal option for mothers with

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Traveling with Kids (Part 1: Packing!)

29 March 2012   Lennie Gutierrez   No comments
Traveling with Kids

Summer’s here! Where are you off to? Are you looking forward to getting away with the kids, or are you thinking along the lines of getting away FROM the kids? This last week, I was on 5 flights through 4 airports. In each of my flights, there was either a fussy baby who cried like

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Sleeping: With or Without You?

13 March 2012   Tina Aureus   No comments
Sleeping: With or Without You

One thing I usually get asked about being a mother is whether my babies co-sleep (sleep on the same bed) with me, or in their own rooms. My answer is that they’ve always slept with me. Many will ask if this is preferred over having their own rooms, and the only best way to answer this is to say it depends on you. 

Before I became a mom, I had already decided to co-sleep. The plan was to eventually move her to her own room when she was a bit older. When my daughter was born however, I found it easier to have her close by.

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Where the heart is: Staying home on Valentine’s Day

10 February 2012   Deepa Paul-Plazo   1 Comment
Where the heart is: Staying home on Valentine’s Day

They say home is where the heart is. The longer my husband and I have been married, the more we find this to be true… especially on Valentine’s Day. When most couples are out on the town, braving the gridlock to go to a special dinner or concert, we’ve found ourselves heading the opposite direction. That means staying in when everyone else is heading out.

We all crave something special, and Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share that something special with each other. Dinners and concerts are supposed to be special, and they can be. Lately, however, part of me doesn’t feel very special when I see legions of other people doing the exact same thing.

So here’s a proposal: why not stay in and show your home some love? The romance of a “Valentine’s night in” lies in privacy, in intimacy, in something unique that nobody else can share. Our homes are unique, and so are the lives we share within their four walls. Besides, I find there’s absolutely nothing romantic about traffic, so why deal with it at all when you can simply retreat into your own little world?

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The Single Mom’s Survival Kit: Relationships

26 October 2011   Lennie Gutierrez   No comments

Being a single mom is the toughest, yet most rewarding, challenge you’ll ever face. There are times when you’ll wonder how you can do everything by yourself. Well, you don’t have to. In fact, you can’t. Just because baby-daddy is gone doesn’t mean you are alone. To thrive on being a solo parent, here are some key persons you need in your life.

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Motherhood Mystery #2: How to keep baby in the stroller

04 October 2011   Carmina   No comments
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We bought our Little One a lovely little stroller (lightweight, forward- and backward-facing, bright green) in anticipation of taking her out, but she has since spent a grand total of fifteen minutes in it. How do other parents get their babies to stay in? Because it seems as if we keep seeing happy babies younger than ours lying contentedly in their strollers.

When we got it we were told that buying a stroller is a trial-and-error deal, that we may have to go through a few before she gets used to it (if at all). When we made our choice, we put LO in it, and she seemed comfortable! But now we can’t get her to stay in it.

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Motherhood Mystery #1: Pangingilala

16 September 2011   Carmina   No comments
Motherhood mysteries: pangingilala

It has happened. Our Little One (almost five months now) has discovered pangingilala, or as I describe it, “choosy about her caregivers and fussy if she doesn’t like them.”

This pangingilala manifests as crying and mild fussing when she’s carried by — or sometimes when she sees — a particular person. Or, to look at it another way, she is consistently relaxed and calm only with certain people. Whether or not she fusses with other people is a function of mood. As a (semi) full-time mom who relies on extended family caring for her when I work, this is an issue. How does this happen?

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What works for a fussy baby?

07 September 2011   Carmina   No comments
photo by Yulia Podlesnova, Photoxpress

If your little bundle of joy is sometimes a bundle of rage, it might be that she’s got a case of the fussiness. It can manifest as inconsolable crying and restlessness that can last for hours, and for a new mom, those hours can seem like an eternity. My husband and I — first-time parents this year — discovered this when we helplessly went through our first four-hour fuss marathon a few months ago.

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