Recent Blogs
Conscious Parenting: Boundaries and Connections
In the fourth episode of Mommy Mundo’s MomSchool Series, Kit Malvar-Llamas talked about creating the balance between boundaries and connections. In every stage of childhood, conscious parenting asks parents to actively listen to what their children are really communicating and look inward for the best response to one’s child.
Dove launches a self-esteem program for Filipino kids to learn at home
Social media, by its nature, encourages people to compare themselves to others, making some feel inadequate to the many unrealistic pictures posted online. This is why Mommy Mundo has once again teamed up with Dove for its Self-Esteem Project at Home. A continuing partnership that started in 2017 with the Confident Girl forum, this new program consists of episodes hosted by UK based body positivist and author of bestselling book Body Positive Power, Megan Crabbe.
Forming Amazing Sleep for Infants and Toddlers with Baby Hugs
For its first session: Forming Amazing Sleep Habits for Infants and Toddlers, Erin Junker, the founder of The Happy Sleep company gave a presentation on the best practices for putting infants and toddlers to sleep and how to get them to stay asleep.
Expecting in the Unexpected: A Guide to Quarantine Babies
COVID-19 could verily be the most unexpected global issue of the past decade (definitely of 2020!) No one could have prepared for the entire world entering a quarantine, or as people come to have called it: a lockdown. But life has constantly proven to be able to surprise even after it has surprised as many mothers and mothers-to-be are now discovering.
How Many Kids is Ideal?
Couples wonder this all the time, they get asked all the time, and they genuinely wonder this all the time: How many kids is ideal? The short answer, of course is “however many you can handle,” but that answer in itself requires a lot of consideration.
Baby Surprise! A Menopause Baby
In fact, many women conceive unexpectedly during the perimenopause period, and these babies are known as “menopause babies.” Halle Berry and Kelly Preston are just two celebrities who have admitted to having menopause babies, with Kelly Preston confessing to have been completely surprised.
Couples in Quarantine (Finding Time to Connect When Constantly Together)
If you live in Manila you have gone through 119 days of quarantine by the time this was published. ONE-HUNDRED-AND-NINETEEN DAYS. That is one-third of the year. Four months of trying your best to stay home, interacting only with the members of your household; working from home, completely disrupting your old routines; setting up new safety and hygiene measures; and watching all the Netflix, Amazon Prime, and iMovies you deem worthy.
The Advantage of Tantrums: What to Do & What Not to Do
Interestingly, tantrums tend to happen with parents. This is because the child feels safe with their parents, and so they feel safe enough to express their feelings in a chaotic and sometimes destructive way.
The Advantage of Tantrums: Emotional Intelligence
Parents can take comfort in knowing that tantrums are a huge part of their child’s development. Tantrums are as natural as a tummy grumbling because of hunger. They are your child’s natural response to a need for attention, frustration, anger, tiredness, and–hey!–hunger. But what role do they play in development?
How to meditate with your children
As we make our way towards being comfortable in the new normal, one skill well worth teaching our children is meditation. In times of upheaval and uncertainty being able to calm themselves, clear their minds, and meditate can be of great use to them. But how does one teach children meditation when children are difficult?
