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10 Tips to Be a Nurturing Parent
Nurturing a child is important as it can help the child become a healthy and confident individual. So, how exactly should parents nurture their kids? If that's what you wish to know, we recommend going through this post. We tell you how you can become a nurturing parent.
What Is Nurturing Parenting?
Every parent loves their child and makes the best efforts to protect them. However, being a nurturing parent is more than that. If you are wondering why it is important to be a nurturing parent, this is why: apart from loving and protecting your child, the child also needs to be understood and listened to, and you need to be there for your kid. A child who feels secure in a family grows into a better individual. Nurturing is essential in bringing up a child, as it helps in the overall well-being, growth, and development of a child.
How to Be a Nurturing Parent
A child who is nurtured from the start grows into a healthy, well-balanced individual, and being a nurturing parent can help him lead a better life. Here are some qualities of a nurturing parent that you can incorporate:
1. Quality Time With Your Kid
It is vital to spend quality time with your child. Being around your child but not being involved with him fruitfully is not productive - you should do things where both you and your child can be fully involved. You can play games, read books, cook, or do any such kind of activity that requires interacting with the child on a one-on-one level.
2. Express Warmth and Love
Some parents feel that it is okay not to express love and affection towards babies because they may not understand such emotions. But this is not true as kids can develop an understanding of love and affection from a very young age. Start expressing your affection towards your child from a young age and let them know you are always there for them. Soothe your little munchkin when he cries; it will send a positive signal to his mind.
3. Make a Routine
Getting your child into a set routine is also an important part of nurturing. When a child is told what is expected of him, he knows what to do and when to do it. This offers a sense of discipline and clarity in a child’s life, and there is no scope of ambiguity or chaos. This also offers a sense of comfort to the child because he knows what is going to happen next.
4. Listen to Your Kid
Whenever your child comes to you with doubts, worries, or things that he wishes to discuss with you, listen to him. The things that affect a child may look or sound trivial to you, but they may be of great importance to your child. Lending an ear to your child is a great way of telling him that you care for whatever is going in his life.
5. Practice Positive Touch
It is very important for a parent to bond with the child, and physical touch is one of the best ways to bond. Whether it is a pat, a peck on the cheek, or a warm hug, make sure you indulge in these small physical reassurances with your child.
6. Appreciate and Reward
No matter how small the achievement or how little the effort, make sure you appreciate your kid for all his endeavours. This encourages the child to undertake bigger challenges in life.
7. Every Kid Is Different
No two parents are the same, and the same goes for the kids. Even when you have two kids, what may work for one may not work for another. Children have special emotional and physical needs, and as parents, you have to understand and fulfil those.
8. Encourage Your Kid to Interact
Human beings are social beings, and therefore, in order to help our children grow into better social beings, it is important that they learn social skills from a young age. Take your child to parks, library, hobby classes, etc. and help nurture their extrovert side.
9. Keep Your Kid Safe
Provide a safe and secure environment for your child. Also, take measures to inculcate safety habits in your child. Try and avoid potential hazards and educate your child about the same too.
10. Take Care of Yourself
Before you offer your best to your kid, it is important that you pay heed to your needs too. Therefore, before you nurture your kid, it is important to indulge in some self-nurturing too. Go for a walk, talk to your friends, watch a movie or do anything that helps you relax, rejuvenate and recharge yourself.
We hope this article helped you understand more about how to be a nurturing parent and helped you incorporate changes in your parenting style.
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15 Superb Canvas Painting Ideas for Kids
Everybody has made their own paint masterpiece when they were kids. Be it using crayons or watercolours, we have all tried to discover our inner Picasso. Canvas painting for kids is absolutely necessary as a learning process that organically teaches your child to express himself in any way he would want to. And by mixing that form of painting with a few other ideas and tips, you can make it a hybrid art form altogether.
15 Creative Canvas Painting Ideas for Children
Here are a few ideas that you can try with your kids.
1. A Canvas Filled with an Array of Buttons
Make use of the canvas as more of a whiteboard of sorts, where the buttons become the colour. Put together a wide variety of buttons in various colours, shapes, and sizes and let your kid stick them onto the canvas. You can make outlines using them and fill in space, or draw an outline first and then use the buttons to fill them up.
2. Soft Pompom Balls on the Hard Canvas
Pompoms are these tiny softballs that are readily available in any craft store. Unlike buttons, these are more three-dimensional that provides your child with a chance to make a lot more than usual. Try painting a scenery and using white pompoms to build clouds over the mountains. Draw a bouquet of flowers and let red coloured pompoms be the roses in it. Let the painting rise above the canvas and create a variety of designs.
3. Sticky Paper Sticking on a Canvas
If buttons and pompoms are too restrictive when it comes to shapes, go completely creative by using coloured paper bits instead. A sticky paper that has a layer of glue behind can be used. Or you could use normal paper and glue separately. Instead of cutting the paper with scissors, let your kid tear them with his fingers into any shape that he wants to. Apply some glue and stick it on the canvas to make some abstract art. Tear out a diamond and let it be a kite flying high in the sky, or simply multiple tiny blue paper bits that resemble rainfall.
4. Blotting the Paint on the Canvas
Keep those brushes aside for a moment and let’s use another tool to create a masterpiece. Blotting paper has a very interesting way of spreading its contents onto a canvas. If your kid is a little too excited, you can even use rough towels or napkins to prevent the blotting papers from tearing. Dip them in the paint and use those to paint on the canvas. The large blots of paint, combined with your stroke patterns, makes it one of the easy canvas paintings for kids to try their hand out at.
5. Modern Art Using Melted Crayons on the Canvas
This one requires some adult supervision but the result is worth it. Lay down paper under the canvas to keep the area clean. Glue some wax crayons on the top of the canvas in an arrangement of your choice. Then, use a hair dryer to blow hot air on them and watch them gradually melt. By alternating the hotness over different crayons, these can melt down to create absolutely stunning patterns.
6. Bringing Real Life onto the Canvas
Not everything has to always be paints and crayons and artefacts. You can bring the nature itself onto the canvas and create a painting out of it. Kids love to collect items so ask your child to find leaves, flowers, dead butterflies, dragonflies, etc. Once they are dried and flat, they can be glued to the canvas in a style that is reminiscent of the olden times. Add colour the painting if you feel like giving it an artistic touch.
7. Creating Doodles on the Canvas Using Threads
This one can be done using threads or ribbons of various colours. Just like pompoms, these add a new dimension to the flat canvas. By tying together the threads in different patterns, you can create flowers, butterflies, or any other style that can be glued to the canvas. Other threads can add some zest or be used to create a border, too.
8. Why Graffiti on the Wall when there’s a Canvas at Home
There is a stark difference in the way colours appear using crayons, using watercolours, and using spray paints. Get a few spray cans in a bunch of colours, along with sketch pens and crayons. Let your kid just spray paint a bunch of wishes on the canvas and then accentuate them using the colours and pens.
9. Masked Letters in a Canvas Filled with Paint
Kids are bound to go wild with this one. Use duct tape and let your kid stick it on the canvas in such a way that it spells his name. Next, use all sorts of paints and pens and fill up the entire canvas with colour and patterns. Peel out the tape and the empty spaces will spell your kid’s name.
10. Family Photo Frame on the Canvas Itself
Mixing together art and craft, this one can be extremely cute to have in the house. Use a pencil to sketch out squares on the canvas. Glue icecream sticks along the outlines of the squares and then either paint them black to hold a photo or let your child draw his sketches of mom and dad and the family in each of the squares.
11. Making the Canvas into a Learning Tool
A noticeboard is important at home just as it is in your office. Let your kid choose a bunch of coloured papers of his choice. Then paint the entire canvas in black and let it dry. Now you can keep the stack of coloured papers next to it and put them up on the board using push pins to write anything that you want to remember.
12. Abstract Modern Art with Duct Tape
With buttons and pompoms, there’s space for some minimalism to exist on the canvas, too. Using simple pieces of duct tape to create a multitude of patterns on a black canvas can allow your kid to focus on other aspects of shape and symmetry, beyond the typical colours and patterns.
13. Sticks and Stones to Paint Great Artwork
Finding small stones or a very sharp stick can act as a brush too. By using one end of the stone or stick dipped in paint, and tap it repeatedly on the canvas. This can be used to create interesting patterns or geometrical shapes or to fill sketched drawings that might have been made earlier.
14. Hands have Fingers for a Reason
Yes! Not only will your kid have a gala time in messing up the entire place, and their hands and their clothes, the paintings they make will have their personal touch, quite literally. Let them make fingerprints, palm paintings, or write their names with their very own fingers and watch them smile in delight.
15. Bubble Wrap Paint Fiesta
A sheet of bubble wrap is all it takes for this one. Take out paint in a larger tray, lay down the sheet, and then let your kid put the sheet on the canvas in all ways possible. And even if he does get bored, he can always spend time popping the bubble wrap.
Canvas painting ideas for preschoolers, kindergarten and all kids are aplenty and each of them helps unleash their creativity in an interesting way. Keeping things clean and letting them express their heart is a good way to keep them engaged as well as build new ideas in their heads.
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A Healthy and Hearty Day in the Life of a Fussy Eater's Mom
Every morning I wake up to the tiny fingers of a 16-month-old playing with my hair and the sweetest voice ever waking me up in what we call ‘the baby's language'. This is perhaps the best start any mother can have to her day.
Well, not always - I thought as I looked sleepily at the wall clock. 6 AM, it showed. Every day the clock shows a different time. Sometimes the day starts as early as 4 AM and if I am lucky, I get to sleep till 9 (which is rare). My sleep schedule is now ruled by my 16-month-old princess, Pearl. But today, being a holiday, and a Sunday, I can easily sleep for another two, no three, no several hours. I slept at 2 last night, so only four hours of sleep. How will I possibly drag through the day, I wonder.
As I breastfed her, I hoped that she falls asleep again and I steal a few more minutes of sleep. Pearl fiddled with both my breasts for several minutes and all I could do was adjust my body position accordingly. My attempt went down the drain when she suddenly stood up and said “Mamma” and looked for her sipper around the room. Yeah, mamma is her word for water. What does she call me? By some alien name. But of course, she says “Daddy” since ages. And her daddy was snoring away right next to me.
By then, Pearl had found the TV remote and brought it to me saying “T…T..T”. At last, I had to leave the bed unwillingly, of course. While Pearl was busy watching her favourite baby TV (also disturbing her beloved daddy), I did my cleaning up and brushing routine and made several trips to the room in between to check on her. On one such visit, I gave her a cookie and left her dancing in front of the TV. Continuing the trips to the bedroom, I finished making poha for breakfast.
At 7: 30, I brought Pearl her breakfast (which was a bowl of Cerelac). She was busy dancing to Guru Randhawa songs and rejected her food immediately. I danced along with her and tried to distract her for five long minutes, after which she suddenly opened her mouth and tasted a bite. She found a friendly taste maybe because after that she ate the rest of it without any interruptions and zero tantrums. The finished bowl made me happy. Her dad woke up by then and joined her in her dancing.
After her breakfast, she started playing with her five-year-old cousin, Armaan. After an hour or so, my little Pearl came looking for me, calling me by the alien name. I was cleaning the room, she didn’t bother, she just pulled me by the hand took me to the dining table climbed up a chair and pointed towards the fruit basket and then put her finger in her mouth and said “Aa.. aa”. This is her special technique of asking for anything edible.
Princess Pearl wanted a banana. I peeled one half and gave it to her and she trotted away to her tricycle. After five minutes, she came back for the other half. I smiled and asked her for a kiss. She happily hugged me and landed a few banana flavoured ‘mmuuaah' ‘mmuuaah's on my cheeks. I gave her the second half which she finished soon after and walked towards me, zombie-style, to get her hands cleaned.
After playing football, watching some more TV, scattering all her toys around with Armaan and after going from room-to-room hunting for something of interesting, like a book or a toy, Princess Pearl finally got tired and slept for a few hours.
She woke up just before lunch-time. I had prepared Sunday Special rajma chawal for lunch. Pearl has been trying all the family foods for a while now. Some dishes she likes and most she rejects outright. She eats a miniature amount of a few foods, which cannot be even termed a meal, so have to follow up with preferred foods like dal chawal or dal roti, mostly.
As she was going to try rajma for the first time, I soaked little dal chawal mix for khichidi as an alternative for her, in case she rejects it, too. As it was a holiday, the family was at the dining table for lunch, together and I thought I’ll wait a while longer because she had woken up just minutes back. As she played with a dancing robot nearby, I joined the table. As I took my first bite from my plate, she noticed me, used her 'aa...aa' pointing technique and looked at me.
Princess Pearl was on my lap and everyone teased me for keeping my child hungry because it isn’t such a common sight for a usually fussy eater to ask for food herself. I challenged them that she won't eat even a bite and her daddy who had just finished eating his lunch backed me and went to put the khichdi on the stove.
But today, something strange happened, my husband and I were taken aback by the sight of it as we were expecting her to reject it outright but she ate her rajma rice heartily, clapping her hands after every bite! She even moved around the dining table asking for more from everyone with the ‘aa… aa’ technique of hers. I lost my own challenge and was gladly embarrassed. When she was done, she ran to her daddy who was as embarrassed as me, but didn’t mind it at all!
I am scared to even write much. Kahi meri najar na lag jaye, because such days are so rare. Following the happy lunch moment, she also drank her milk to the last drop in the afternoon. She also slurped a few cornflakes spoons from Armaan’s bowl in the evening, which he shared after rolling his eyes at me.
By the time I finished my other household chores, it was already dinner-time. Pearl was blabbering in the kitchen holding her minion bowl and spoon. She was asking for food again, I couldn’t be happier. Remember the khichdi which apparently we didn’t need to cook for lunch, now became her dinner. Pearl sat atop the dining table and was happy thinking she got to eat by herself with her little fingers. She was struggling to put the spoon into to her mouth the right way and ignored the fact that when her mouth opened, another spoon full of khichdi came out of nowhere and found its way inside too.
These kind of days are special and very, very rare. Most days one meal would go untouched and most days I am left confused about what to feed her, what she will like. Every other day, I am googling about tasty foods for toddlers. And this is why this Sunday is extra special. What more does a mother want than her child eating healthy food happily! I would wake up every day at 4 a.m and do dishes till midnight if I have to if it means a perfect eating kind of day for my child.
A day when a child finishes all her meals is that perfect day any mother would wish for. Princess Pearl is now asleep. She deserves a million kisses but she hates it. So, I have to do with just one “Goodnight Love”.
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Marinated Chicken and Egg Salad
The Marinated Chicken and Egg salad is packed with nutrition, protein and gives all what a gym rat’s body needs. Chicken breast and egg whites are loaded with protein. The greens and radishes balance out the protein and provide the rest of the nutrients. The marinated chicken gives the dish a delicious lift.
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
10-15 Minutes
15-20 Minutes
Ingredients
1 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves- cut into bite size pieces
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 hard boiled egg
2 radishes
1 tbsp water
1 to 2 cups salad greens
Method
Step 1
Mix together the vinegar, water, olive oil, salt and water and marinate the chicken pieces in the mixture for about an hour.
Step 2
Drain the chicken and cook on a pan for about 15 mins. Turn the chicken so it gets cooked evenly. Do not add anything more to the chicken as it already has oil.
Step 3
Slice the hard boiled eggs. Also chop the radishes, salad greens and tomatoes and arrange on a plate.
Step 4
Top the ensemble with chicken.
Step 5
Add a little pepper to taste.
Nutritional Information
Calories
151 K cal,
Proteins
20.1 g
Fats
6.3 g
Carbohydrates
4.5 g
Cholesterol
113 mg
Sodium
1271 mg
Potassium
1274 mg
Tip: *For frying, add approximately 10 grams of fat per serving at 9 K cal/gm of fat.
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Watermelon Pizza
This is one dish that doesn’t require any of your supervision. You just have to cut the watermelon wedges and hand it over to the kids. Get them to arrange the fruits, and in the process learn about the different kinds. Let them prepare their rainbow and eat it too!
Serves
Preparation Time
Cooking Time
4 People
5-10 Minutes
0 Minutes
Ingredients
1 watermelon slice, cut into round slice of about 2” thickness
1 cup strawberries, halved
1 cup raspberries
1 cup blueberries
1 cup grapes, halved
1 cup banana, sliced
1 cup kiwi, sliced
10 g shredded coconut
Method
Step 1
Cut the round watermelon slice into 4-6 wedges. Cool for 10-15 mins.
Step 2
Arrange the fruits on each wedge and sprinkle some shredded coconut on top.
Step 3
Keep in the refrigerator for chilling for 5-10 mins and serve.
Nutritional Information
Calories
144 K cal
Proteins
2.2 g
Fat
1.6 g
Carbohydrates
33.9 g
Cholesterol
0 mg
Sodium
4 mg
Potassium
496 mg
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