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Transitioning To A Toddler Bed

Ensure a smooth sail from the cot to the bed with these simple tips

Snuggle Up?

Co-sleeping Vs independent sleeping – M&B weighs in

Monsoon Skincare To Enhance Your Pregnancy Glow

Pregnancy brings with it various skincare woes. Add to that equation your growing belly the changing weather, and you’ve got yourself a rather pesky situation. Josephine Song shares a few tips and tricks to keep your skin healthy

Indoor Monsoon Activities

The rains can cause the kids to be stuck at home and get bored. Let’s make this monsoon season exciting for your little ones with these fun-filled indoor activities....

Hush, Little Baby!

Affirmative sleep talking with your baby can be a great parenting tool. Here’s how to do it

Help Him Get Back To Sleep Faster

This simple little tweak will speed your baby’s return to the Land of Nod in the middle of the night….

Day Sleeper

If every naptime is a battle of wills, read on for our guide to getting your baby to sleep in the day

Do Dads Belong In The Delivery Room?

Times are changing and one of the places you see this change is in the labour room. An increasing number of fathers are now witness to the birth of their children and are proving to be support systems unlike any other, for the most part

Styling Your Kids On A Budget - Tips And Tricks

As much as parents love dressing up their children in trendy clothes, they are less enthused about the short shelf-life of the items. Styling for children can be overwhelming for thrifty parents because children outgrow their clothes quickly. It seems like they grow an inch every time you turn around and there is always a constant demand for new clothes.This article guides you in styling: so that the inevitable growth spurts of your children do not shrink your bank accounts!

Raising A Child

We observe a rise in single child families in India due to a variety of reasons. For parents, it is good to know what the implications are, and take action where necessary. This article explains how to do that.

Quick Resources

The summer brings a lot of excitement for children. But it also exerts some pressure on parents. Children have to be kept engaged and happy without excess use of gadgets, With so much time to kill, they ask for interesting snacks and drinks! Tough ask? Not with this list that we have put together for you!

Lifeskills Through Games

In the previous edition of this serialised feature Guestimedict was introduced, a game that sharpens children’s skills to estimate, predict and make informed guesses.This episode discusses an emotional block to creativity that prevents one from leading a creative life; a block as a consequence of fear of a negative evaluation of oneself by society, fear of criticism,fear of drawing the attention of others to what one is doing. This fear causes one to filter all actions that one could take, through the sieve of how society would view the action. This constant filtering of potential actions through reflections off the social mirror is a block that prevents one from exploring life in all its fullness. In this episode we propose an experimental activity that can gradually remove this serious block to creativity.

Home Gardening With Your Child

Gitanjali Rajamani is the Founder and CEO of GreenMyLife, a gardening company based out of Bangalore. She is also a Cofounder at Farmizen, an urban mini-farm rental company.

Dangers In Your Child's Food

Everyone knows that food is a basic necessity that we can-not live without and that food is essential for a child to grow. But what kind of food is a question that stresses parents out.

7 Steps To Joyful Parenting

You waited for that bundle of joy to be in your arms and when the moment came you could not stop those tears rolling down your cheeks. Of course, the tears were of joy. As time passed the joy seemed to turn into stress, frustration, anxiety, guilty. What went wrong, when and why? Can this be fixed? Read on.

Many Ways To The Same Goal

It is confusing. It is scary. It is overwhelming. When friends and family start discussing the birthing process, if you are not pregnant, you can just ignore all that is being said, but if you are on your way to being a mama and are not completely sure about the types of birthing, then you are likely to dive straight into a huge amount of stress. Take a deep breath, count backwards from 100 and promise to educate yourself. Here’s helping you along the way with all you need to know about the different types of birthing techniques.

Spotting The Stomach Bug In Your child

Avoid getting yourself into a messy ride!

Quiz Time

Mother of all fathers or flop of the pops—how is your man shaping up in the daddy department?

Prepare Daddy For D-Day

Subtly leave this page open for your other half to read and he’ll find all the info he needs to get him to D-day and beyond

Man Or Superman?

Hell hath no fury like a woman up the duff with a craving for pickle. So, for dads-to-be everywhere, here are M&B’s 10 Commandments for living with a mum-to-be

Howzat!

While the IPL fever swept through the rest of the country, for seven months now, sustainability consultant Lara Sinha, and her cricket commentator husband Jatin Sapru have been occupied with a different kind of fever — baby fever!

How To Support Her During Labour

After an intense nine months, it's time to bring your li'l one into your lives. Are you ready, dads?

Babies & Daddies

She’s Daddy’s little girl alright and, with our bonding tips for fathers, she really will be eating out of his hand in no time…

Never Do This To A Child Of Fighting Parents

Guide to guidance.

Rule Of Thumb Thumb Sucking : Myths & Realities

There’s nothing cuter than seeing a little child, lost in his own world, with doe eyes fluttering away innocently and a thumb jammed between his rosy lips.

5 Tips To Manage Your Baby's Food On Foreign Shores

It is important to ensure your baby gets the right nutrition, in any part of the world

Keeping Your Child Healthy In The Summer

We all look forward to the summer break so that we can take a break from the mundane routine and mad rush of the school year.

Child Savings Plans - What You Should Know

Key financial concerns of parents before we dive into the ins and outs of “Child Savings Plans”, let us quickly take a look at some of the concerns that parents have about their children’s future.

Lifeskills Through Games Guess, Estimate And Predict

Raj and Sam played a game that they named Guestimedict; a portmanteau, but involving three words; ‘Guess’, ‘Estimate’ and ‘Predict’.

Girls & Stem - Bridging The Gap

Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) subjects and activities are in vogue.