When I posted about our trip to Indonesia and to the Cerelac farm, I was surprised to know that moms were thankful with the info I shared! Since there were so many details I didn’t get to talk about, I thought it would be best to share all the details here on my blog. But first, let me share how we found ourselves in Indonesia visiting the Cerelac farms and factories. When Cerelac first partnered with us, I was so […]
Sharing here what I shared on my Instagram account lately. Before I share the most natural ways to pass immunity to your infant, I would like to point out that this post is not about whether or not you should vaccinate your child. There are so many articles on that topic that you yourself should research about, and for this topic, I cannot compress all the research and articles and debates in one post. Instead, I am sharing this because […]
Do you sometimes wish your child stops growing? I do, but I also know that aside from that being impossible, it’s a very selfish thing to wish (thankfully, nature is on his side)– I mean, my son needs to keep growing for himself. He needs it for his own survival. We cannot stop time, and as cliché as it sounds, it’s really true: the days may be long, but the years are short. My son is only 25 months, yet […]
As a mom who uses cloth diapers on most days, I admit I have not done much research on disposable diapers before birth. My original plan was to do cloth diapers all the way, except for traveling, but my son came out as a tiny baby, and remained tiny in his first two months. His weight was okay medically speaking, but what I did not foresee was that our universal-sized cloth diapers were too big for him those months, and […]
In Montessori, infants and young toddlers are encouraged to use glasses from the start. This means no sippy cups, no plastic wares, and no-non-breakable materials for drinking. Why on Earth would you want that? Can babies even handle it? In this blogpost, let me share our experience with our son. But first things first… Maria Montessori advocated using fragile, breakable weaning cups/glasses because this is the way children learn. It’s simple, really – the concept of natural consequence. Yes, there […]
Boodle Fight is a popular activity for adults in the Philippines. Basically, the idea is to put different kinds of put on a banana leaf and eat together using your hands! It’s some sort of a (fun) competition when adults do this, because they have to move fast to get the food they’re eyeing for (most especially if that food is limited). When my son was 7 months old, I thought of making one for him and his then 3-year-old […]
I grew up in a culture where going barefoot is not the norm. “You’ll get sick.”, they would say. “It’s dirty. You might get germs.”, others would add. When P was a few months old, I came across an article that talked about the benefits of going barefoot. Then I remembered what I read from Montessori from the Start when I was pregnant: that uncovered feet for infants enables the baby to take in many tactile experiences and stimulates their […]
My son was 9 months old when he first showed interest in doing posting work. In THIS video, you will see him try out his peg material. We did not teach him how to do this, but he would always see us fix it whenever he’s done playing with it. This to me, meant that he was ready for it. A month after, he showed readiness for the coin-box type of posting (see video HERE). I would have loved the […]
In my previous post on Montessori Mobiles, I shared how we did the black-and-white visuals. As mentioned in that post, the difference with Montessori mobiles is that they are intentionally used while the infant is awake and ready to absorb his/her surroundings. The mobiles are meant to help develop focus on a moving object and develop perception of color and depth. Just yesterday, my mom-in-law had visitors and she was holding our son while chatting with them. When I came to […]
I blogged about how we gave our son a bath when he was a newborn (before the cord fell off and a little after that) IN THIS BLOGPOST. Today, I will be sharing how we give him a bath nowadays. We began giving this kind of bath when we felt he was already big enough for him to be propped up on a bath chair, which was maybe when he turned 1 or 1.5 months old. WHAT YOU NEED: Cotton […]