Couple of days ago I overheard a conversation that made me want to explain something. The conversation in questions was between two moms, around the age of 30 (just like me) with kids under the age of four (same here). It went somewhat like this: Mom n.1: I always pin these activities that I want…
If there’s one thing that I struggle with a lot, its patients. Generally speaking, I’m someone who reacts fast, and expects the same from others. Now, I know that some people need to think more before reacting (and in many situations its actually better than my nonchalant spontaneity) but if you have kids then you…
Recently I was feeling like a failure of a mother. My almost four-year old daughter Lili stopped listing to me. And I stopped enjoying her company. I was blaming her age for it, but deep inside I knew it was my fault. I knew, that I’m doing something wrong, that kids just don’t turn bad…
Before my daughter will go to school and learn that pretty kids are considered better kids, and before she’ll join the Disney princesses fans team, I want her to learn that beauty is not the skinny and wide-eyed ideal. That beauty can come in different shapes and colours. And that what’s really beautiful is the…
Last spring I started to feel that I may have a favourite child. It may sound terrible, but realizing it, and then understanding why it’s so, have made me more in peace with myself, and with my kids. I think that actually it has made me a better mother. I used to repress this thought though,…
Since I wrote my first post about how I’m raising my bilingual children, I got so many questions that it made me realize how important it is and how difficult it can be. First question that I was asked frequently was how do I stick to speaking only one language to my kids? I must…
