Busy Mom’s Blog

The Sunday after Labour Day is called grandparent’s day. Well put. It’s the beginning of the fall and the kids are back to school. This is a chance for the kids and grandparents to join again and enjoy their company before the school year gets serious.

I’m all about family relations without my family I can’t function properly.
I think it is very important for the kids to have a close relationship with their grandparents. It will cool them down from the busy life of school and dealing with peer pressure. Read the rest of this entry »

Potty training the second child is totally a different story. One might say, I’ve done it with the first one I know what to do now. I have to agree and disagree. It was more difficult for me because I didn’t have the freedom I had with the first one. You have to consider the first child’s curiosity and activities too. And easier in many ways because I knew what signs to look for and how to approach.

With the first one, the first day he was completely naked from waist down. This would help him to managed sitting on the potty easier and by himself whenever he had to go. And I had the potty in his play area. Now I can’t have her naked, he wants to be naked too and he is very curious about their differences! ? Who is not? ? And I can’t have the potty anywhere but in the bathroom. Here are a few tips I picked in potty training my two toddlers a boy and a girl.

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Potty training my son (3.5 years now) was not that difficult. I was very patient with him and he was completely potty trained even at nights by the time he was 2 and 8 months old. He woke up last night in the middle of night and called me for pee pee That was my dream coming true?

My daughter is 19 months now. I have been telling her she has to go to potty and put her on potty from time to time since she was a year old. She also sees her brother going to potty.  I got more serious when I saw her interest in sitting on potty. Almost a month ago I saw her grumbling at the breakfast table and offered her to go potty. She accepted and surprisingly did her poo poo in potty. As I did with my son I praise her with blowing candle and some stickers. My son came in and I asked him to congratulate her and we both gave her high fives.

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Ok game is over, I have to confess. I think  I’m a procrastinator. Why ? because I have so many unfinished projects that I can’t remember some of them. I looked the work procrastination in Wikipedia and I fall into the category.

I can think of a few reasons whyI’m trapped in this loop. Here are some:

• Can’t say NO easily. If any one, specialy someone close, wants me to do something for them or go somewhere, most of the times I can’t say no.
• Misjudge the time needed for a project
• Ask too much of myself, or I can say I want to try everything
• Start projects easily

Parents are the biggest role model for their kids, and I don’t want my children learn this habit from me. Read the rest of this entry »

My kids are blessed to have 5 cousins older and one younger than them selves. But they all live in different parts of the world. Although my children are very young and in my daughter’s case hadn’t seen them at all; it is amazing that how quickly they get attached.

Three of my nephews are here for a visit. My son is having a blast, he gets to learn and do what ever he was dreading. I’m happy that they get to spend some time together. I can see my son’s confidence is boosted.

I was lucky growing up in the safety of a large family. I grew up with 10 cousins and I didn’t understand it then. Now when I look back I can see that many aspects of my personality are directly the result of living in a large family. I didn’t understant that having someone your age and on your side could be that important in confidence building of a child. My kids are more confident and acting freely around their cousins and that is the world to them and me.

I hope that everyone can have the pleasure of spending time with his or her family and loved ones.

Until Later