Category: parenting
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5 BEST RECIPES FOR A 6 MONTHS + BABY

Parenting can be challenging and thinking of what to feed a 6-month old baby can be overwhelming especially if you are a new mom. The current global Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) recommendation is that infants be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life and thereafter receive safe and nutritionally adequate complementary…
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The Optimist’s Guide to moving from Goal Setting to Goal Getting

If you work in the development sector, you should be used to attending meetings. The meetings are usually attended by relevant stakeholders and could take place in hours or in days. Such meetings are usually strategic planning meetings, work plan development meetings, proposal development meetings and so on. These kind of meetings help the persons…
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THE SMART WOMAN’S LIFE PLANNER: EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

A goal without a plan is just a wish-Antoine Saint-Exupery. Being a new mom was a big change for me and that meant I had to be on my toes and achieve as much as possible on my to-do list. Not until after my second child, I realised that there is so much about life…
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SPECIAL OFFER: SMART WOMAN’S LIFE PLANNER

The Smart Woman’s Life Planner is out! 💯💯💯👏👏👏 Yayyy! For every smart woman to succeed, you need to be able to write down your SMART goals and develop a strategy on how you plan to achieve your goals. This SWLP will help you do just that and lots more. This tool will help you execute your year.…
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5 SMALL THINGS THAT CAN BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY

Sometimes life has a way of keeping us busy, over worked and sort of depressed especially when things are not working as expected. And times when we are too engaged with our personal stuff that we do not notice the rainbow after a rain, the bright and beautiful flowers behind our windows or the sun…
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HOW EASY IS IT TO ACTUALLY LOVE YOUR BODY?

I find it hard to ask myself or other people around me questions that I cannot answer or I do not have answers to. The big question here is “do you actually love your body?”. My answer would be a ‘yes’ and I assume that less than 10 percent of women may not answer yes.…
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5 Lessons in Self Esteem That I am Teaching my Kids

Growing up wasn’t easy for me; I was skinny because I didn’t like to eat (eating was stressful and then I had a childhood dream of being a model or a Princess like Princess Diana), I didn’t care and I was called names. Later in my teens and then at the University, I didn’t care,…
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Top 5 Lunch Box Tips and Ideas

One of the things I will miss when my kids leave primary school is packing their lunch boxes. Waking up as early as 4:30am to prepare meals or snacks for Prince and Princess is something I dread so much but hey! I get to remind myself that someday it will all go away whenever I…
