I’ve had four home births and my daughter thinks I am a superwoman for having a natural birth. “Yes, mama! You are a superwoman!” my teenage daughter insists. She reasons that I gave birth to four children without any medication, and she thinks that is extraordinary. She saw me go through labour pains when I…
Women are prone to gallbladder attacks than men. This is the unanimous information I gathered from different resources in my desire to understand my recent condition. Last month, I had bouts of excruciating abdominal pains, which apparently were gallbladder attacks. A day later, I was scheduled for surgery to remove my gallbladder and two gallstones…
Spontaneity is among the characteristics of our family. Everyone is in unison with the instant actions we take for fun, it could be just a drive around the city for an ice cream past 10 in the evening or to another town just for a bite to eat and the recent one, unplanned camping. We…
I have a special attachment with water. I grew up by the beach and also had access to rivers, so swimming and boating as an activity were part of my childhood. Those scenarios of children swimming in the river or the sea, getting on a boat or canoe, I have experienced them. Oh, what a…
Ramadan is one of the most festive times of the year for Muslims, despite hunger being the concept associated with it due to fasting, from dawn to sunset. This month is a merry month, time for family and friends to make time to be together for iftar, (breaking of the fast) and going for night…
The holy month of Ramadan is just around the corner (expected to start on May 6th). Every Muslim family is busy preparing for the announcement of its arrival, signalled by the sighting of the moon. Here in the West, included in our preparations of welcoming the month of Ramadan is also being prepared to share…
It’s been a decade since my daughter and I joined the world in recognizing the importance of taking part in keeping our world a better place to be. Literally, by being litter-conscious, we consider every day as Earth Day. The amount of trash in the world is alarming. According to worldcounts.com, every year we dump…
“Get into the games with your kids, stop fighting the game trend. Become one with the game, enter the game, understand the dynamics of how your children play the games that they play. Understand how their mind works...” Zichermann
I got nothing to hide, nevertheless I am not the type of person who will share anything about me easily. I am cautious in the online world. I don’t blindly sign up or give my information on any website unless it is “secured”. Unfortunately, as a Facebook and social media user, I have already allowed…
There are trillion hours of free time available in the world, according to Clay Shirky in his TED talk on How cognitive surplus will change the world, and then we hear people asking “Where the time goes?”, “How time flies?” after a realization of time passing without accomplishing anything. We’ve also heard a phrase like…
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