Blog Posts on mommyhood

Cultivate Curiosity in Your Children by The Pepperrific Life on Oct 16, 2011Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it definitely never injured a preschooler.  Curiosity is a strong and positive emotion which we parents must cultivate in our children.  It is basically inherent in us all, that’s why kids have the unshakeab...

Pizza at 2am! by My Own Little Space in This World on Oct 12, 2011Crap, we passed out super tired of all these work going on in our house. It's 2am, I woke up and realized I wasn't able to prep something for kiddo's lunch.Whipped up something real quick from the almost empty fridge  and here's the best I could...

The Five Finger Test…And What I Do With My Fingers by The Pepperrific Life on Oct 5, 2011If you find your kid sitting quietly in a corner, with a copy of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment in hand, don’t be too quick to celebrate that your son- who previously couldn’t be unglued from his Nintendo DS- has suddenly become a voracious...

How to Teach Your Child Empathy by The Pepperrific Life on Sep 29, 2011She prays for me.  She really does.  As my daughter and I say our bedtime prayers, instead of asking God for a new 3-storey Barbie dollhouse, she prays that God keeps me healthy and takes away my pain (that was on a night that I was having a massiv...

Truly Rich Mom's Makeover on Glam-o-Mamas! by on Sep 25, 2011*Warning: This is a self-indulgent post. haha. I just feel like sharing this here. So bear with me. hehe.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Remember my post about winning a makeover from Glam-o-Mam...

Cultivating a Love of Reading and Language in your Child by The Pepperrific Life on Sep 25, 2011This is a guest post by Emily Patterson (@epatt1062), submitted on behalf of Primrose Schools: child care aiming to deliver the best and most trusted early childhood education Imparting a love of reading and learning in a child is perhaps the greates...

How to Celebrate Your Birthday: Single Mom Style by The Pepperrific Life on Sep 21, 2011Age, they say, is just a number. In my case, it’s a number that has grown bigger again. I have definitely outgrown rainbow-colored, helium-rich balloons and birthday clowns doing pathetic acts. If you’re a single mom- or any mom, for that matter-...

This Post Is Brought To You By a Sentimental Fool by The Pepperrific Life on Sep 18, 2011I have to admit, I am that fool.  Whenever I spend fun times with two of the most important people in my life, I can’t help but keep replaying every moment in my head.  My brain hasn’t kept up with the times, though, so it still is in video cas...

First Time Motherly Talk by I Just Opine on Aug 25, 2011We are fortunate to be blessed by God a month right after we got married. We are among those who are very lucky and did not wait too long to have a precious gift. Many couple waited for three months, some even one or thre years, worst, longer than th...

in the scale of by inJiNuous on Aug 20, 2011"Can we go to the pizza place? Please?" The lil miss, a bit of a picky eater, rarely does this: suggesting where to go eat. So whenever she'd say the line and we're not so tight, we indulge her. By the end of one of those occasions, we were asked t...