When Dad Is Mum Too

Parenting isn’t easy. It’s tougher still if you’re suddenly rendered single, and more so for the single father. So how do single fathers cope with the challenge of filling the physical and emotional vacuum left by the absent mother? Asha Chowdary and Lhendup Bhutia find out

Do Fathers Really Matter?

Do Fathers Really Matter? Here are a few vids someones sent to me….

this is deep!!!

Nineteen things to say to your children…

1. I love you! There is nothing that will make me stop loving you. Nothing you could do or say or think will ever change that.
2. You are amazing! I look at you with wonder! Not just at what you can do, but who you are. There is no one like you. No one!
3. It’s all right to cry. People cry for all kinds of reasons: when they are hurt, sad, glad, or worried; when they are angry, afraid, or lonely. Big people cry too. I do.

I Am Your Child!

I am a child of divorce. My parent`s divorce became finalized in 1969 when I was six years old. My mother was granted sole custody and my father never fought it.

I am writing this because I wish to see change. Change in a system that helped to alter my relationship with my father for the duration of our lives. Our lives, he being 600 miles away at 52 years old, seem all too short.

We started out fairly normal. I remember watching a football game with him, smelling my mom`s pot roast in the air, being carried around on his shoulders, waiting for him to come home from work. A father-daughter relationship firmly rooted for growth.

Night Terrors & Bad Dreams (Toddlers/Kids/Children)

Just a few minutes ago i witnessed Lewis having what at first i thought was a a really bad dream. i google “bad dreams in kids” (or something like that) to find the cause of bad dreams out of curiousity.

After reading one or two search results i found out that what he had infact had was a Night Terror not a really really bad dream…

A Night Terror is where a child wakes up screaming with her eyes wide open, when in actual fact s/he is still asleep. The child will suddenly sit up, usually sweating profusely, shout out loud for a few seconds, before lying back down and returning to a normal sleep.

Healthy Varied Diet: not so hard after all

untill recently well, not so recently about a year ago when  i became the main carer of son i didnt know what a healthy diet was. i was going through the masses of paper work in my room when i came across some of the hand outs given to me in a Health and Nutrition class i took a few months ago.

for more nutrition information… tips, myths, recipes, labels and more i highly recomend the Food Standards Agency website.
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eatwellplate/

find hundreds of recipes on the bbc recipes website. click here.

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When Will Pizza Hut Do These? [Video]

the only thing pizza hut is missing is this box

Parenting Skills: Learnt OR Instinct?

Parenting… everyone’s got their own definition to it.

when i took over the care of my son a year ago the fear of failing him as a parent kicked in, i was so scared of not doing it right the first time round and turning out like my parents. for many years i’d promised myself to be a better parent than mine were to me.