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Why ‘Self-Esteem Culture’ is Making Kids Weaker, Not Stronger

Self-esteem culture was designed to boost kids’ confidence, but is it actually making them weaker? In this blog, we explore how constant praise, participation trophies, and shielding kids from failure are backfiring—creating fragile confidence and emotional dependency. Discover why resilience, not constant praise, is the real key to raising strong, empowered kids.

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Work-Life Balance: Techniques and Tactics for Achieving Harmony

Work-life balance: In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of finding a work-life balance and offer practical tips to help you achieve it. We’ll talk about prioritizing and planning ahead, communicating with your employer, delegating tasks, and taking time for yourself. By incorporating these tips into your daily life, you’ll be able to find the balance you need and lead a fulfilling life. Don’t let your career take over your life, it’s time to prioritize what truly matters and find a healthy balance between work and family. Read on for more tips and insights on how to make this a reality.

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How to get rid of teenage rudeness

Teenage rudeness can be a challenging behaviour to address, but there are steps you can take to help improve the situation. Teenagers may get rude as they are going through many changes in their lives. They may be struggling to find their place in the world and may not be sure how to express their emotions. They may also be feeling insecure about their identity and trying to establish their independence. It is important to understand that these are natural reactions to their development and that it is not personal. If you want to help them, it’s important to be patient and take the time to listen to what they are saying and help them find ways to express their feelings in a healthy way.

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10 Traits of a Narcissist Parent

Being raised by a narcissist parent can be quite difficult. It fills one’s life with challenges and by the time one realises the reality, it ideally gets too late. For a narcissist parent, their child is a trophy. A narcissist parent seems perfect to the outside world, but is most likely to rage and scream at their child and spouse at home whenever they displease them. Check out the points in this post that can help you identify various traits of a Narcissist Parent.

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Struggling with life? | Don’t Let it defeat you

Struggling with life and feeling that you are failing at it? Life offers unlimited opportunities to everyone, it’s just that we need to mindfully be able to recognise these and make the most of them. Do you know why you must be struggling with life and feeling that you are failing?

Struggles instil great amount of strength, tenacity and courage within us. But before they do that, they might end up leaving us drained out and defeated.
Read about how Limiting belief and emotional blind spots can harm us in this post.

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Bullying – Empower your Child

One thing that no parent want their kids to go through is bullying. This isn’t a new term for most of us. A bully ideally targets people who they feel don’t fit in. They could end up targeting someone based on their behavior, appearance,  race/ religion, popularity status  or sexual identity. This post will help parents empower their kids so they are able to deal with bullies and win over them.

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Angry child – Don’t let anger fool you or your child

Angry child – Don’t let anger fool you or your child! As a mental health advocate I have learnt that there is always much more to anger than what meets the eyes.
Anger mostly acts as a protective purpose for children, thus it’s important to not allow your child’s anger fool or misguide you. Take this opportunity to understand your child and bond with them better.

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Avoid saying this to your child & don’t make your child feel responsible for your emotions

Are you making your child feel responsible for your emotions? If yes, Avoid saying the below statements to your child, and replace them with effective statements as mentioned in this blog post.
It’s unfair when we burden our kids with the responsibility of making sure that our emotions aren’t affected by their actions. Instead of loading our kids with this responsibility, we must focus on making our kids aware about their own feeling – big or small.

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Stop your child from hitting : Step 2

One trick that has always worked for me and my clients is to tell the kids what they CAN do, instead of telling them just what not to do, so there is no confusion.
Kids mostly love to please their elders, hence showing them how they can, would really help them.
In this scenario the main goal is to model  gentle behaviour in front of them, something which they would copy or at least start to register consciously.

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Stop your child from hitting : Step 1

In this post I  will share things that have proven to be helpful to me and my clients. You know your child best, hence feel free to tweak  the suggestions  as per your comfort. You would have to deal with biting, shoving or hitting the moment you see it happens. Waiting even for a minute or until you get home isn’t going to help as by that time, they would have already forgotten the incident and won’t  be able to understand  the severity  of the situation.

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Stop your child from hitting : things to remember

When should you stop a child from hitting?
I know it isn’t an easy task to figure out how to stop a child from hitting!
For the first time Parents it’s an even more shocking and tedious  process.
How one helps the child stop hitting would look different for different age groups, however in this post I would share my expertise of what worked for my thousands  of parents and kids clients.

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Raise Honest Kids with these Tips

If your kids have lied or have tried to deceive you, you must understand that it is normal childhood behaviour. It is a parent’s job to teach them right from wrong. Take out special time to guide them away from lies and towards an environment where they can openly speak the truth. They would definitely thank you for taking the extra time to teach them this important life lesson.

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Educational toys : How to pick up the right ones for your kids

Educational toys are the change that will take the process of learning to the next level, since they can Kickstart your kid’s play and support his or her development.
While one might feel choosing the best Educational toys for the kids would be easy, it does indeed require a good amount of effort. Finding the best educational toys could be difficult for both teachers and parents.
The best toys for the kids are the ones that engage both their minds and bodies.
The perfect toys are the ones that challenges kids and help them learn in in a fun way.
Here are a few points that could help you pick the right kind of Educational Toys for your kids:

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Don’t change yourself after becoming a parent

Don’t change yourself

Have you already started feeling that Parenting took away a part of you that was important to you once?

Have you Changed yourself after becoming a Parent?

Do you miss being yourself?

If the answers to all the above is YES, Please read on to know about the one thing that my husband were quite sure of during our first pregnancy.

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Growth curve – A great way to track your kid’s development

Being a mother of two I have witnessed how different kids develop new skills and abilities at an individual pace and in a steady progression as they grow. Both my daughters reached their respective milestones and developed various skills at a different pace.
A Growth curve assesses the way a kid grows over a period of time. Read this blog post to know all about Growth Curve.

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Parenting During Pandemic

Parenting During Pandemic is hard. The children are likely to show emotions and feelings that they must have not shown before.
Check out this post to know about some practical and simple tips.
Even though it isn’t a great feeling to see one’s children in an emotionally weak state, we must accept that it’s perfectly OK if they show some signs of anxiety or sadness.

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Maternal anxiety – is for Real

If you feel that separation anxiety is just for kids, hold your thought and read on.
When you become a parent, you are likely to experience a fraught with emotions. You may find yourself feeling extremely happy and joyous at your baby’s birth at one moment, and may experience an immense sense of responsibility. At certain times you would feel an intense fear to do everything right for your baby.
There might be times an extreme desire to be able to protect your baby from the world around may lead to a couple of problems for your baby and you.

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Best Family Board Games to Invest in Right Away

One of the best ways to make some fun memories with your family is by engaging in board games. In this article you would find 5 Best family board games that would help you spend some quality and engaging time with your family.

After hustling to school and work for most of the week, we all crave to hit a pause button and make some definite room for memories that would last a lifetime.
We often crave to connect with our family the old fashioned fun way – without any portable electronic devices.

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Anxiety in kids Decoded -Part 1

Did you know that kids from the age of 7-17 often suffer from anxiety or depression? In this blog post I will help you decode both the cases. Identifying these can help you take necessary help right in time. Many children have worries and fears, and may feel hopeless and sad times and again. You may watch the video below to understand this in more details.

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Life Coach Mentor – Someone who could help you move closer to a better way of living

If your life looks great on paper but feels not so great in real life, we need to take a pause.

I can help you enjoy the success you have strived so hard to achieve without having to sacrifice your soul to find it.

I can help your child balance academic well being with personal health and happiness.

A session with me help you become the happiest person you would know.

I beleive that each of us have the potential to create the change we want to see in the world. but too often we get stuck feeling like we can’t.

I would love to help you and your kids change that.

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Life Coach For kids who could help your kids reach their goals

If you have a child between 7 -18, this blog is for you! It could be just what you’ve been looking for! My name is Preetjyot Kaur and I have been sharing about my parenting journey on my blog mylittlemuffin.com since over 6 years. I loved my job as a mom blogger.. But over time when I connected with various mothers through my blog and I realised something!

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Disney. BYJU’S Early Learn App – transformed the way my kid learns

Byju’s Early Learn App – transformed the way my kid learns.

This pandemic has brought online learning to the forefront!

Whether schooling your kids through online classes or learning new skills for professional growth, all of us are fast evolving as a tribe of self-initiated learners!

Thank God for BYJU’S, the app has literally transformed the way my kid learns. The course material, innovative technology and its mentors have helped in improving my younger ones retention power. 

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Unrealistic expectations – Toxic Productivity

Unrealistic expectations can break you.

During the beginning phase of lockdown did you start with plans of doing something truly meaningful and productive?
Have you been pushing yourself to self-improve and focusing on your productivity?
If this is true it’s quite possible that you are feeling overwhelmed because you are simply not able to achieve the ‘unrealistic’ expectations you may have set for yourself.

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How to help your child succeed at preschool

Here is a list of a few things that I feel are important to help my child succeed in school??? Its evident that the family’s involvement in young children’s education may contribute not only to a smooth transition to elementary school for children, but also for parents, by helping to prepare them for later involvement in their children’s learning.

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Meaning of Sorry taught without making our daughters say Sorry

Sorry?

We don’t make our daughters say ‘Sorry’!

In this post you will find what we do instead.

Time and again I have seen and I’m too sure you must have too… a child runs past and almost knocks down another child, screaming an unapologetic ‘Sorry’ and runs off to continue playing.

Children are often taught to say ‘Sorry’ way before they are capable of feeling sorry for any of their actions. Does this sound familiar to you?

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Post Delivery | Do you feel like a stranger in your body?

Post delivery Truth bomb – Other mothers might feel and look better than you: I won’t lie! This truth is extremely hard to swallow. But I’m glad I got over this feeling soon enough. We must understand that everyone has their own way to deal with things. Just the way others won’t go through what you did, you wouldn’t go through what others did.

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Body positive kids could be the game changer

One of the most important tasks as a parent is to model and nurture healthy self esteem in our children. It does take a lot of time and care to help a child adopt the habit of body positivity. It won’t be an easy feat, and I must warn you to be ready to be bombarded with some tough questions that have extremely tough answers.
Read this post to know how I work towards immunising my daughters against poor body image.

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Self love is the key

Self love is the key to being a happy mother.
Don’t be too hard on yourself to become a better parent.The world around you changes overnight after you become a parent. A baby doesn’t just fill your life with new responsibilities but also influences your sleep, daily schedule, your diet and most importantly the amount of time you spend in the washroom. Read this post to know how I fell in love with myself all over again.

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Feed your Child’s Brain

When I say feed your child’s brain, you really are technically feeding the brain first.
Even though genes play a significant role in determining a child’s intelligence, research shows us that nutrition also plays an important in developing intellectual capabilities during formative years.
Today I would be talking about food that would not only promote good health, but would also give your child the best possible nutrients for his brain to concentrate, remember and think clearly.

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Screen Time Limitation Trick – Free Printable

Trick to limit Screen Time – Our little Secret. With the motive to limit Screen Time I started following this simple trick. Bonus: Happier kids. I let my daughters sit in front of the computer or any other gadget, that’s because I choose to teach my girls how to balance spending time in front of a gadget in a healthy way in their life. Check this post to know what is it that we are doing differently.

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Casio Mini Keyboard- Bringing families together since Decades

When it came to introducing music to my girls, I knew that Casio Mini Keyboard would be the best choice.

I wanted to recreate memories with this cool instrument that holds a special place in my heart.

For the happy nappy brigade – dancing, singing and making music comes very naturally. Musical activities also have a unique way of distracting and changing your little ones mood.
Check out why you must introduce your child to some musical instrument.

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Staying Up Late? Try Some Natural Sleep Aids

Staying Up Late? Try Some Natural Sleep Aids

Whether you’re having trouble falling asleep or you are a night owl, getting good quality sleep is tough. But you need to get in your seven to eight hours so you won’t be experiencing sleep deprivation symptoms like brain fog, confusion, mood instability and of course fatigue. Stop yawning and try these tips to help you sleep better.

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Letter to myself – on my first day to college

Dear 18 year old Preetjyot,
Hang in there girl, I have a big secret to share with you. Something that could change your life forever. I’m your future self and I took special power from the Momsteins to send you this letter to let you know what you are getting into.
It’s your first day in college and I know you are pretty nervous, so I thought I will let you know that this new phase is going to be the most rocking one.

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Letter to my siblings – my crazy 4 gang

Dear crazy 3, I know you know pretty well that life would totally be out of focus without you 3 being around. We do end up fighting almost 50 percent of the time, but trust me I wouldn’t wish to be made fun of for singing like a frog or chased around the house with a fake lizard, by anyone else but you guys. You definitely have to deal with me and love be back, no matter how mean I get for no reason or how my voice could bring down the entire house.

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Incrementally challenging toys could make your child Smarter 

I’m a firm believer of learning through play.
It’s highly believed that quite a less number of kids are born with mathematical talent, while the rest don’t have the ability to succeed at a higher level. Cognitive science has lately proven this myth to be wrong.
Human brain isn’t hardwired. It continues to develop throughout one’s life. Incremental learning could help in the emergence of new abilities. Check out my post to read about some awesome benefits of incremental challenging toys.

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Letter to Santa from a crazy mother | A letter that all mothers wish they could write

Here’s a crazy letter to Santa from a crazy mother | a letter that all mothers wish they could write
I write this letter to you hiding in my secret hideout place (in the washroom), the lights are shut (so my girls wouldn’t know I’m in here), and my phone’s torch is being used along with my daughter’s crayon that I just smuggled out of her precious crayon box.

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Tea lovers versus coffee lovers | Some myths busted

tea and coffee lovers.
It’s become a trend that people prefer one of these beverage over the other in huge numbers and develop a disliking towards the ones who don’t love their preference. Often they also end up typecasting the other category. Check out various opinions that coffee lovers have about the tea lovers.

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Garlic supplement from Zenith Nutrition – odourless garlic with great benefits

Garlic is not only a delicious culinary ingredient which gives a distinct flavour to food but is also really healthy and is used to cure various diseases, exactly why odourless garlic supplements are gaining the popularity they truly deserve.
I have recently started using Garlic Supplement from Zenith Nutrition and would love to share my experience with you all.

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Children’s day ideas that I’m sure no one gave you before

Tons of extra love, ‘brutal honesty’, ‘Pullable cheeks’ and galore of infinite questions is what could describe children the best. This children’s day let’s appreciate the blessing children are and make them feel that they are loved and valued. Here are some cool Children’s day ideas that I’m sure no one gave you before .

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Amniotic fluid and it’s importance : how choosing a good maternity hospital could help

I was detected with oligohydramnios during my second pregnancy and learnt that about 8 percent women have low level of amniotic fluid. I was lucky to have found the right maternity hospital that helped me throughout my pregnancy. If it wasn’t for my gynaecologist, I would have been in distress. Exactly why I suggest all expecting parents to choose your maternity hospital wisely. 
If you would like to know more about oligohydramnios and how your maternity hospital could help you, please read on.

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STEM education is getting all the attention it deserves | Skola toys

STEM education and toys are getting all the attention it deserves. The toys that our child plays with has a huge influence on his development. It’s important to introduce your child to the world of educational toys which would allow him to learn while having fun, during his growing years.
Any kind of toy would offer value to a child’s developing brain, however instructional, learning or educational toys would produce a specific value to his development.
I have been recently introduced to the world of STEM education since my daughter’s new school follows this system and I would like to share my learning about it with you all.

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Gift of learning is what your kids need this festive season.

With the festive season right upon us, we all are gearing up to shop for gifts for our loved ones. You might be one of the person who has received a long wish list from your little one for some cool new gadget or some trendy toy.
However as a parent I’m sure you would want the Gaming consoles, iPads , tablets or any other gadget out of focus this festive season. The best gift for your child could be a toy that is low-tech and which could help develop his cognitive, social, emotional, motor and language skills.

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Pregnant women listen to these Rude Things

Check out my video for some Rude Things People Say When You’re Pregnant. Some worst (yet hilarious) things I have ever heard while sporting my baby bump.

There’s just something about a baby bump that makes people lose their filter. They end up blurting out the first thing that comes to their mind – and chances are that’s it could be seriously offensive.

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The Modern Indian Woman is Rocking the world- #9daysofWomanhood

Modern Indian Woman is someone who has broken all the stereotypes and is the one who believes in herself immensely. There has been a gradual change in the activities of Indian Women. From being a part of a pastoral society to enjoying the contemporary and global society, a woman’s role has changed tremendously. From a typical ‘GRAHINI’ who used to believe in just catering to the household responsibilities to a Woman who is  also working towards the socio-economic and  cultural aspects of the society, Modern Indian woman is ready to Rock it completely.

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Breastfeeding baby while bonding with your toddler 

The biggest fear I had when I had my second child was that I should never make my first child feel neglected. She was our lifeline and would always be. The only time I felt that would be making her feel neglected would have been the breastfeeding time. That urged me to find a solution for it. Hope this helps all the mothers who have two kids or are planning to have the second one.

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How I bust gender stereotypes

I always thrive to break the stereotypes if it makes rational sense to me. Even before my first child was born, my husband and I had decided to bust the usual gender stereotypes in our family. We wanted to give a gender neutral environment to our child. Today, I want to share with you all about how I bust gender stereotypes and how I ensure that my little muffins know, that they could achieve anything they want in life, irrespective of their gender.

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Crazy talking apples | Cool idea for sending fruits to your child’s school for his/her birthday

Let me show you an interesting way you can send fruits to your child’s school for/her birthday.
I couldn’t find some good books for my child’s birthday this year, so thought of going ahead with sending fruits.
Well!! But I didn’t want to go the boring way.
Thought of doing something crazy with the little apples for my little muffin.
The boring apple were going to be crazy talking apples.

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12 Fun LAUGH-OUT-LOUD Reads to have a laughing session with your child

Have you come across a book for your child that made you fall down laughing?

I am sure that’s a rare case !!!
Yes!! There are definitely some fun books that would make you laugh out loud!!! If you are looking to have a fun laughing session while reading with your young ones, read on.
Here are some books that will definitely make you laugh your lungs out:

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Here are the best Read aloud Books for your 0-3 year old muffin

Make sure you practice reading out aloud (which a skill, trust me!!), with your little muffin. It’s a skill to be able to draw attention of a child, by changing your volume, pace or voice.

You should pay attention to what you are reading. Make sure you reflect the drama and emotions through your voice. These emotions would also be visible on your face. The best trick here is to act silly.

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CHANGE with TIME

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”

I hope everyone reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes by you have an opportunity to change. It could be a complete transformation, an interchange or just an exchange of ideas, thoughts, feelings, and more importantly a refreshment of your MIND and by this you become different.

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Yes I Am NEERJA..And Will Be NEERJA All My Life

Yes I am NEERJA..and will be NEERJA all my life. A song early in the morning just evoked a lot of thoughts in my mind. It was a usual morning, of a usual mother of two, getting one ready for school and feeding the other.
An ordinary morning, suddenly made me feel extraordinary about myself and my life.

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How to Trim a Baby’s Nails without any hassle

It can be a pretty scary business the first time you have to trim your baby’s nails. I am sure most of us would have had accidents while trimming baby nails .If you’re tempted to skip it, know this: nail trimming is important since babies often don’t have very good control of their arms and could accidentally scratch their face, or worse yet, an eye.

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