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Add caption Words always had a special power over me. From an early age, I read any book I could get my hands on. I even remember getting up early so I could read my books before having to go to school! Yes, I had been a bookworm since I can remember and with it came a love and passion for writing. I have written short stories for friends, countless essays and always knew that writing will be part of my life.  I had no idea though it would eventually save me as well. As my life went on, writing stayed with me. It became even my career for 10 years when I worked as a print journalist, both here and overseas. In my private life, writing was more present in the form of writing lists of wishes and dreams and things my husband and I hoped to achieve. One of them was to become parents. We had talked about it many times and knew we would love to be parents one day but didn’t plan anything.  Then, one day, I felt a bit off. Just not quite how I normally felt. Before I drove to the pha...

Let’s not beat around the bush.  Being a parent is hard, and it never gets any easier with every new tiny human you may bring into the world.  It’s exhausting, stressful, and yet amazing all at the same time.    So the question is, what do you do to make this job a bit easier?  For a mum or dad who has already gone through the journey of raising a child, you already have a few tricks or habits that can make the day to day activities a bit stress-free for you.  New parents are not as lucky.  They’re just learning what works and what doesn’t for their bub as they go, and getting advice from absolutely everyone on the right way to dress, bathe, feed, soothe their child.  They might be checking every 2 minutes to make sure their tiny human is still breathing after putting them down for the night, and freaking out the second the bub starts to cry.  There’s nothing amazing about that.   This is the time for parents to get smart....