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Food from the life past

My nannhiaal is from Jaunpur in UP (Uttar Pradesh) in India where my mother was born. When they came to Pakistan in the late 1950s,

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Typhoid Vaccine Hoopla: Q&A

The recent public hysteria over Typhoid Vaccine introduced NEEDED to be addressed.
Here are some Top of Mind questions in the minds of any responsible parent in the country that were addressed by Two Prominent Paediatricians in a Mothers’ Group run by a Doctor herself.

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How to Love with Boundaries: Toddler Edition

Teaching a child how to love is easy. They are so good at it they can perhaps teach us something about unconditional love. What’s a tricky one is how to rein that in and not feed into your child growing up an entitled brat who thinks love is their right. Because let’s be honest, don’t we already have enough of those around?
Janet Lansbury explains how to lovingly nip this in the bud when it is still just a lovable thing they do.

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Curly Girl

Curly hair deserve some extra love. I’ve been wanting to do this for a very long time. Finally, we took the leap.

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Brava!

I can’t say this enough how my child has changed me for the better. I don’t say motherhood has changed me because I honestly believe it is my child’s individual personality that is changing things about me more than the routine motherhood stuff. Or IS there a run of the mill motherhood gig at all? I think it’s a unicorn waiting to be sighted. Each one a unique one.

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Reading is BACK!

Reading with a baby, especially if you can’t quite hand your child off to anyone, gets more difficult as the offspring grows and develops a love for ripping paper. It’s a constant battle between do I love my child or do I love my books and it can go either way if you’re me. I steered clear from making that choice for a while until this past month when there was truce on the battlefield.

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The Konmari Bug: 10 Things I learned from Marie Kondo (Tidying included!)

The Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo. Apparently there are only two types of people in the world right now. Those who have seen it or are planning to do so in near future, Or those who are too busy decluttering their house after binge watching it already. Some blatant, some between the lines, here are 10 unconventional things that I learned from it.

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The Audio (Books) Jump

The other day I picked up a book and my husband’s eyes widened in surprise. No more than 3 seconds later my baby raced over with the twinkliest eyes ever, throwing herself on the book in my lap. Tears blurring my vision, I put it back in the shelf.
Here’s a jump that I never ever thought I’d make. Some balm for my aching heart that crazily missed reading books around the clock pre-baby

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