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Best ways to handle sleep-walkers
You get a nag to check on your little one in the dead of the night. You stealthily open the door to his room and your fear stares you in the face. His bed is empty. Your heart’s thud moves to your head because the washroom lights are off and so are those of the other rooms. Then just before…
The break-box
Years back, woe unto you if the contents of your tin were ‘unsightly’. That would set a string of giggles and sometimes providing a story for siblings back at home. So if your mum had forced you to carry a banana, bread, ugali, beans, sukuma wiki-as opposed to cake, crisps, bacon, synthetic juice and the…
Could it be…?
My mom pretended to prepare lunch in the kitchen. ‘What do you see in your future? Say five years from now?’ Laura, then my girlfriend, asked. ‘I haven’t planned that far ahead,’ I responded. ‘What about marriage?’ ‘What about it?’ ‘Don’t you want to get married and have kids?’ ‘I don’t want to have any…
Common mistakes mothers make with newborns
When you take your bundle of joy home from the hospital, it is inevitable you will not do everything right. Paediatricians were asked about the five most common mistakes parents make with their newborns. Here were their responses: Letting a newborn sleep through the night. ‘One of the things that make me cringe is when parents say to me, ‘The first night…
Susan Kamau – ‘I can’t wait for her to talk to me!’
She graced Pregnant Issue 8 Cover. Her baby girl, Martha Wambui Muchori (pictured with both her dad and mum on opposite page), was born on 4 August 2007. Martha is eleven months old now and I can’t spend enough time with her! I find myself zooming from the office straight home at 5p.m. instead of…
Is she bedwetting?
Ways to help her stop it ‘Parents should remember that children rarely wet on purpose, and usually feel ashamed about the incident,’ Writes Kepha Nyanumba, Nutritionist, AAR Healthcare. Bedwetting refers to the unintentional passage of urine during sleep. Enuresis is the medical term for wetting clothing during the day or in bed at night. Another name for…
To cut or not to…
AFTER giving birth to your baby boy, one of the earliest and important decisions you will have to make regarding your baby boy is whether he should be circumcised or not. Circumcision involves the surgical removal of the skin covering the tip of the penis. For some parents, circumcision is a religious ritual, for others…
Help Your Kid Grow to be Respectable
IT is the role and responsibility of parents to facilitate desirable personalities in their babies. Indeed, parents want their kids to grow into responsible, well mannered persons. Apparently, this is the epitome of child rearing. It is during the early days that a child learns proper behaviour as well as respect for themselves and others.…
Womenfolk are still suffocating under the weight of men…
Gentlemen can do better! ‘This business of you just filling your stomachs and leaving (the dining room) as if nothing has happened has to stop!’ our high school headmaster would warn us. He had been irked by our tendency of leaving plates on tables after meals for the cooks to clean. Considering that we were…
Angel, my joy
‘Though my pregnancy was not planned, my daughter Angel Becky Makena has turned out to be an extraordinary child. She is the centre of my life and has injected meaning and a sense of responsibility to it.’ Sylvia Kilemi shares with Rebecca Njoki the joys of motherhood. JAUNDICE ATTACK My due date had passed by…
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