Baby Banter

Parenting

    YAY, we’re going on a field trip. Mum’s packing my bag, a couple of changes, my toys, extra b...

Baby Banter : It wasn’t me!

Parenting

  Woke up to find my mum in tears, what’s a baby got to do to get some sleep around here anyways.

What’s in your baby’s bag?

Parenting

Is your baby due soon? Have you spent marathon rounds of shopping till you drop?...Despite being such a tiny little person, new...

Baby Banter: The everyday perils of NORMAL life

Parenting

(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ ...

Baby Banter: My Home, My Palace, My Kingdom

Parenting

  Well have been home for nearly a week now, am slowly breaking the new parents in. But found out that they are not re...

The Disappointed Child

Parenting

My older daughter, having made the transition from infant school to middle school was now faced with a brand new set of dilemma...

Baby Banter

Parenting

(Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HONEST’ ...

Too many activities, no free time. The dilemma of OVER-SCHED...

Parenting

So we’ve got tennis on Monday, swimming Wednesday, Ballet Thursday, voice training Tuesday…. I was pain-stakingly ...

Baby Banter: The first day

Parenting

For those of you who missed out, last week I was born. Spent nine months in a warm comforting room, though after gaining ...

Pregnancy Q & A's

Parenting

Pregnancy is indeed a beautiful time in a woman’s life. As your child grows you want to do what is best for baby, from wh...

Baby Banter

Parenting

  (Lets face it kids are full of honesty, they say it as they see it. This is a new column written from the ‘HON...

The ‘MORNING’ battles with your children

Parenting

Tick tock, tick tock, the school day morning begins..rush rush, lunch boxes, raincoats, OH NO! someone is wearing sandals and n...

The truth about stuttering

Parenting

Stuttering which is also known as stammering is a speech disorder where a person’s speech is disrupted by repetition of w...

Where are your manners, please?

Parenting

  Last week one of my readers brought up the subject of manners and is it good manners for a child to interrupt an adu...

Candlestick candy Jars

Parenting

This is such a fun, easy to do and also ‘tasty’ arts and craft project to do with your kids. It can also be a great...

The Wise Ones

Parenting

  Until I was five years old I spent vast amounts of time with my grandparents. Looking back to me it was a magical ti...

Things to do with Baby – Family Tree

Parenting

With Grandparents day this past Sunday, it presented us with another great opportunity to get the kids involved in an arts and ...

Back to school FAILS..to avoid

Parenting

  Call me a bad parent, but I am definitely one who relishes the end of the summer holidays and the day that my childr...

Baby Chat – A Pre-schooler’s first day

Parenting

As everyone started back at school, I worried for my three year old, who would be beginning a new class as well. 

Things to do with baby

Parenting

Since ‘Play Clay’ was a very important distraction in our house this summer, instead of buying large volumes of pla...

‘We’re BORED!’

Parenting

‘Mom, we’re bored’ I hear one of my children scream as I take refuge in my peaceful ‘kid free’ ho...

The Wonderful World of Sisters

Parenting

I never had one when I was growing up. A sister that is. I would look on enviously at my friends as they either conspired with ...

Here’s your 20 questions…and more!

Parenting

Dawn breaks over the Jayasinghe household and as I rise to the sounds of birds chirping and other morning noises, as clear as a...

Baby Chat – Memory Keepsake Box

Parenting

  It goes without saying that the day your child is born is one that will be etched in your memory forever. A day that...

Bring out the OLYMPIAN in you!

Parenting

With the past weeks of Olympics fever taking over the World, hopefully this has encouraged all households around Sri Lankan to ...

Restaurant ALERT, the kids are coming out for dinner!

Parenting

  I am sure all parents can relate at the stress involved in taking your children out for dinner. I am not talking abo...

Do we ever stop being parents?

Parenting

The other day at a family gathering, one of my many aunties accosted me in the hallway saying ‘Dahling, we LUV your page....

The ‘Sippy cup’ Etiquette

Parenting

  For all those non-parents out there, deciding when to move your toddler on to his or her first cup, might seem like ...

The War against ‘CLUTTER’

Parenting

As a mother to three children I fight the ‘clutter war’ on a daily basis. Don’t worry we all have that &lsquo...