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It was their “My Country of Adoption” day in school and my son represented the Egyptian. We researched and practiced together and we were both on top of the script. Event time was communicated and atlas, I  had fixed an appointment for that same time. I was a bit confused, …

I like to describe parenting as a journey which leads to different destinations for different people. Therefore in basic terms, parenting involves raising a child to be the best of him /herself and be a positive contributing member of the society. The type of strategy or method adopted is crucial …

Helping out with my son’s homework could be very frustrating. Sometimes, he is in the mood and finishes before I say Jack and other days, we can be there as loooooooooooong as he wants even till Monday morning. I have tried different techniques to make this journey a smooth ride …

The only perfect entity I have seen on this planet earth apart from The Almighty Himself is a robot; a programmed individual or an APP As parent, I am also a work in progress I am not perfect but striving towards perfection daily therefore I have reasons to make mistakes …

Parenting is as simple as A, B, C if we know how to cross our T’s and dot our I’s. Even the most difficult set of children (the teenagers) as we mostly refer to them often respect our opinion when we have sown the right seeds to them early in …

One of the things I like to do as a mother is to keep journals; for myself and children – individually.  For every birth, I dedicate a specially made book which could either be a notepad or jotter collected as a souvenir to be ‘Our Relationship Journal’. Memories of joy …

I heard this joke from a friend and I think it’s worth sharing. It happened one day that a 5 year old daughter of a posh, polished and well educated working class mum surprised her on a rare Saturday morning (one of those days she was home by chance because …

Our present age is beset with so many things that divide or even take away our attention – by default. Each day is clouded with different activities which make parents sometimes ‘forget’ their core responsibilities as fathers or mothers. Every parent is an employer or employee, a daughter/daughter-in-law or son/son-in-law, …