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Why Giving Your Child Siblings is the Best Gift You can Give Them

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I personally grew up with 3 older siblings and I must say that I’m beyond blessed that I have them and I will have them for the rest of my life.

True enough that at early stages of life, our siblings are our competitors, our friend-enemies, but as we grow older, you will realize that instead, they had always been loyal allies who will back you up in every battle.

The Benefits of Having Siblings

As parents, having more than one or two babies is truly challenging and requires a lot of sacrifices plus more responsibilities. Let me change your mind on that matter. Yes it is challenging, but it is what’s right. Here are the reasons why it’s important for your child to have siblings:

•Helps Improvement in a Child’s Development

When there’s more than one child in the family, it is easier for every child to communicate, improve their language skills and their ability to connect with other kids. Thus, makes it easier for them to express themselves as well, becomes mature especially the ones who are older and it makes them develop sense of responsibility.

•They Can Be Source of Entertainment for Eachother

Children can easily be bored on an invironment where there is no one they could play with, especially those around their age. But if they have siblings, you give them a chance to have better and fun childhood days.

•You are Building a Bigger and Better Pack

Of course you can be excused if you have health issues. But like wolves, the bigger the number, the stronger the pack. Raising children is surely not easy. Yet, when they get older, everyone will be of help already and things will get better for everyone in the family.

•You Are Giving Your Child a Friend For Life

Sure enough, they will have fights, they will hurt eachother at times, but a sibling is a sibling for the rest of our lives. Your siblings are your first friends and the ones who will be your to-go-to whenever life gets tough.

•When Parents Die, Siblings Will be Their Only Immediate Family

Their aunts, uncles and cousins will still be there, but siblings are different. Those who are born from the same parents, will have strong connection and sense of belongingness towards eachother. In my own experience too, even if I already have husband and kids, my relationship with my siblings will always remain special to me. They catch me at times when I lose my sanity and not even my husband can help me.

Let Me Tell You A Story

I had a friend who is an only child. She was always happy and cheerful about having everything just for herself. Wants, needs, name it. She can have almost everything because her parents adore their only child. However, the only constant thing in this world is change. There came a time that her parents got separated. Her mom got cancer and everything went downhill for her.

She was with an amazing man and supposed to be having the best time of her life builder her own empire. Only that she had no one to share her troubles. From the medication of her mother, to raising her firstborn, to dealing with her father, she had her boyfriend with her, but she wished her parents gave given her siblings whom she could share everything with instead.

How about you? What are your thoughts on these matters? If you were to choose, will you have one child or more? Share it in comments.

How You Can Save While Raising a Child?

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Married, single, dating, mother, daughter, nanny or even a company’s president, no matter who you are in this world, saving money is always on the list of our priorities especially if we have already settled down and raising our own family. However, raising kids can be very costly. They say by the time your child reaches 2 years old, most average living parents have already spent more than $19,000 since birth. So, the question here is how are you going to save up or maximize your saving while you are raising your child? Here are some helpful tips.

Saving Tips for Mommies and Daddies

•Cook for the family.

Instead of dining out to your fave resto every friday or every weekend, cook and eat at home. Who says you won’t be happy with that? As long as you are together with the ones you love, you can find ways to be happy and healthy. Save dinner outs for special occasions.

•Don’t replace stuffs that are still good and working.

Even if your refrigerator is not brand new, as long as it is still up and running well, you don’t really need to buy new one. Keeping up with trend is costly. If your budget is just right, better save it up instead of buying things you don’t really need at the moment.

•Go for preloved and secondhand stuffs

Buying baby’s car seat or high chair? Look for preloved stuffs online. Trust me, there are still really good deals you can find there. Everything doesn’t have to be new, especially things that will be seasonal such as those. Your baby won’t use them for 10 years by the way, so as long as it’s in good condition, then you’re good to go!

•Simple Home is okay, people inside matters the most

Let’s admit it, mortgage and housing can really, really be costly. But if you are on a tight budget and aims to save more than to spend, go for a simple one. As long as there is roof above you and your family, walls to keep you warm and secured, you can fill the inside with love and care. Truly, a peaceful and happy home is more important than an expensive house with parents worried about loans, savings and expenses.

•Relationships aren’t costly. Build a strong one

Instead of going out every weekend to bond with the family, stay at home and do fun stuffs together. Learn what your kids love and explore with them. Bonding and going out is sure fun too, but it doesn’t have to be in a regular spending manner especially if you loom forward on saving for the kid’s future too. Spending time with kids no matter how simple (as long as it’s fun) your activities are will surely be appreciated.

•Teach your children to save and value money as early as 3 years old

The more they will see how much important it is to save, they will learn it by heart too. Also, be an example in showing your kids how to be a smart spender and good saver. Refer to this article for guide on teaching your kids how to save money.

Preparing for our kid’s future and saving up for the family is very important especially if you are really not that well off. You can always look for ways to spend and bond with the family without spending too much. Trust me, in the future, you will see that your kids will be thankful for you.

Do Babies Have Dreams When They Sleep?

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When adults fall asleep, we experience a cycle called light sleep and deep sleep. In light sleep, our brain and body adjusts from being awake to being asleep. This is the stage that dreams often occur. On the other hand, deep sleep is when our body and brain is fully at rest. The transition from light sleep to deep sleep happens on the first hour of sleep. However, for babies, the transitions happen in a shorter span of time occurs multiple times during sleep. This explains that yes, babies do have dreams and they dream more than the adults do. About 70% of their sleeping time, they experience dreaming.

When Do Babies Start to Have Dreams?

Studies shows that as early as 30 weeks gestation, a baby inside his mother’s womb could already experience REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep. REM is when one’s eyeballs keep moving behind the eyelids. This is also the phase of sleep that dreams occur. So even from inside his mommy’s tummy, few weeks before he is born, a child can already experience dreaming.

What Do Babies Dream About?

Babies can already smell, hear and feel from the time he’s still in the womb. A Pediatric Expert says that a baby inside the womb might have dreams about his amniotic world and his everyday experiences inside his mother. From newborn stage and infancy, every changes he could encounter and development he had may improve his dreaming as well. From the clearer vision of his room, to the soothing feeling he had when sucking his pacifier. All his dreams would vary from his day to day life experiences.

Do Babies Have Nightmares Too?

Worry not mommy, it is said that an infant still don’t register his fears to include it in his dreams. Your baby could have cried during sleep, and there might be some reason for that, but babies don’t usually experience nightmares until he reaches the age of 3-5 years old.

Can dreams affect baby’s moods?

No, babies might not even be able to remember what he dreamed about during sleep. Most likely, by the time a baby wakes up, he will already put behind what he had dreamed about. And also, since they have multiple dreams during sleep, it’s no longer possible to remember and get affect by it.

Dreaming plays a big role in an adult’s world. That is the reason why parents are often wondering too if their babies could dream. Even though babies could dream, their dreams does not affect them same as how it does to adults. Their dreams are just happy fragments of their everyday experiences.

How to Handle a Picky Eater Child

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As a mother, it is always our joy to see our kids growing healthy. It is always on our goal to let our kids try different foods that contains the right nutritions they are expected to get everyday. But how could you achieve that if your child is a picky eater? How can you encourage him to change his eating habits so that each meal time will no longer be a horror for both mommy and her kid? In this article, lets find out how we can handle a child who is a picky eater.

When and Where Eating Happens

Establish a routine in eating and a permanent place to share your food. Your child should be able to eat 3 proper meals a a snacks in between. It is our role as a guardian to decide what food we should offer to our child, and it is our child’s decision already to take it or not. However here are some tips to help your child to be interested in trying different foods.

Tips to Help a Picky Eater Child

•Offer an Appealing Menu to Try On. Entice his or her curiousity by offering a meal that looks, smells and tastes yummy.

•Happy Meal Time. Do not pressure your child to eat what is on the table. The more pressured he is, the more he’ll set in his mid that he doesn’t like to eat what’s there. Make meal time a happy family time.

•Be an example. When the toddler seas that other members of family are eating what is on the table without asking for what’s not there, it will encourage him to try it too.

•Don’t bargain. Whatever is served should be consumed. Don’t serve his favorite food because he said he wants it. Don’t give in to his wants.

•He will eat when he’s hungry. At start, you may not like it when your kid only eats a little, and you just let that be. Experts says the child will more likely to eat more the next meal to make up from the last mealtime. Once he’s hungry, he will ask for food.

•Let him take Vitamins that might improve his appetite and eating habits. Ask your pedia about it so that you will have proper reccomendations on what to give your child too.

•Don’t easily quit the established routine. If you see only a little improvement, don’t quit right away or withdraw your plans. Be patient and try and try again.

Being a picky eater is not a behaviour that lasts for a lifetime. Eventually, it will improve through time, patience and dedication of parents to help their kids through it. As long as you don’t give up, there’s still hope. Just do your best to provide a healthy meal each time. Even if you fail, remind yourself that things will get better.

How to Give Your Kids a Happy Childhood

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As adults, looking back at our childhood days and telling stories to our kids about our experiences during childhood is such a wonderful time. We would always wish that our kids would be able to experience a fun-filled and happy childhood where all the scratches on our kneed can be cured by candies and the only problem we have is how to convince our Mommies to let us skip afternoon naps. As parents, we wish our children will have a wonderful childhood too, more than just playing on the gadgets and watching tvs. But how do we really help our kids yo make these wonderful memories of childhood days? Let’s discuss that here in this article.

How to Help Your Child to have a Happy Childhood

•Spend time to bond with them. No matter how busy you are, don’t forget to bond with your kids. They will remember each game well played. Each happy moments you have decided to share with them instead of working for your own happiness will be appreciated.

•Support your kids in their dreams. When they are still little and yet they are already sure of what they like to be in the future, show respect and support them. Parent’s support and encouragements will always mean so much to a child. More likely, he will remember that as a good memory when he grows up and chase his dreams.

•Teaching Valuable lessons. As early as 3 years old, when you teach your child an important life lesson or value, live through it. Show to him that when he learns to maintain the goodness and kindness inside his heart, he will become someone who will be source of happiness and values to others too.

•Be an example. Don’t overreact, overthink about problems, don’t stress yourself too much over work, be a living example of someone who brings positivity. Filling his childhood with positivity and happy memories to cherish.

•Teach your child to become optimistic. Even if he just had a hard and tiring day, teach him to remain patient and positive towards reaching a goal. Being enthusiastic in given situations is one way to keep happiness just around you.

•Developing Gratitude. The feeling of being thankful and appreciative no matter what situation you are into and on every simple or little things is one way to be happy.

•Acknowledge you child’s emotions. A child who’s emotions are well discussed, and who’s moods are managed will become an adult who knows how to control his emotions. He will know how to divert and manage his feelings.

Childhood is a very important part of someone’s life. Some people tends to develop their personalities and behavious from childhood stage. It is important to give our children a happy, optimistic and positive childhood days that he gets to cherish for the rest of his life.