Somewhere around the 6th month pf pregnancy I started thinking about what it will be like to have a child. I was making plans, scenarios, I was reading a lot and I was fantasizing about how I will approach educating my child. When a friend who already had children was telling me what she was going through, I thought about how I would react in…
I come from a country where people are very much interconnected. What people do and think matters quite a bit. This has many reasons, among which the fact that in comunism you had to rely on those closest to you in order to get by in a world of constant lacking. Another important factor is religion, which uses social pressure as one of its main…
I have been wanting to see Beauty and the Beast sonce i heard it was going to screen. I was super excited to see a movie version of the animated Disney movie I loved. One friend of mine told me she was going and I got super jealous since I can’t go anywhere in the evenings now because of breastfeeding my baby to sleep and…
I hear many parents around me say things like ‘He is such a devil’ or ‘She is super calm’. These are the least labeling things, as some parents also venture to saying ‘He likes to sing, he will be an artist’ or ‘She will be a dancer, she keeps moving her feet’. On the one hand, we are all eager to know our children. For…
I promised someone this post would be something from the perspective of the psychologist in me. Initially I was thinking to write something about children or parenting but I think something about me and us as mothers is more fitting for now. Becoming a mother is huge in a woman’s life. It’s so huge we rarely realize what has happened and all the aspects of…
So I am trying out Montessori toys for my daughter. At least it’s my plan, in reality most of the time they are suuuuper expensive (topic for a separate post) and I am just not the DIY kind of mom. So I went out looking for something that could pass for a permanence box without having to pay 70 euros for it on Amazon. I…