COMFYMAMALIFESTYLE

Are you struggling with a picky eater at home? If your child refuses food or eats the same things over and over, you're not alone. It can be a frustrating and exhausting experience to try to get your child to eat. But don't worry, with these tips, you can improve your child's eating habits and make mealtime a more enjoyable experience for everyone. To get started, however, let us clearly establish who exactly a picky eater is and what signs show that your child is one. Let us conduct a simple test to find out. Simply put, let us diagnose and test before treatment, as it were. Who is a Picky Eater? A picky eater is a child who is particular about the foods they eat, often refusing to try new foods or rejecting certain textures, colors, or tastes. Signs that Your Child is a Picky Eater Find below a test to determine if your child is a picky eater. To make it more interesting, I have created a unique personality for each type of picky eater. The Plain Jane : Your child prefer

                 M ornings are crucial to how your whole day pans out,a disorganized mornings more often times than not results in a disorganized day(speaking from experience) my kids were always going to school late even when i woke up as early as 5.00a.m. The mistake i was making was doing everything in the morning, picking out clothes, cooking from the scratch without prior prepping e. t. c I had to  restrategise because it was stressing me out a whole lot, i couldn't get things done, chores and work were piling up, unfinished projects because I was running the race against time, it seemed the  24 hour day was  not enough , I had to make adjustments and came up with a plan to start my day on a more organized note. I came up with a 9 step plan to achieve this.          They are as follows; 1.Write out your plan for the next day. 2.Make sure your kids homework is done and place them in their bags afterwards 3.Pick out your kids clothes for the next day(ens

As a stay at home/work from home mom, you deserve some TLC, you know you do(i picture you nodding your head in agreement) but you pause and think, no time, can't waste money............. well that's not a problem here because i know you race against time constantly coupled with the fact that we spend most of our money on our kids, little is left for us to spend at will. As such we start cutting out luxuries like spa treatments and we become pros at diy like myself. however if i can't go to the spa, the spa will come to me right in my house. I'll be sharing with you how you can achieve this managing time and money. I really want you to try this because it's a good and cheap way to destress, it's soothing and you sure won't look like the stereotype stay at home mom when you incorporate this into your routine from time to time. It's budget friendly, all you have to do is raid your kitchen pantry. To get started, here's what you need to cr

  I struggled for years with keeping my kids lunch hot enough for them to eat so the food does not go bad or become too cold to eat. I have bought countless food flasks with promises of keeping the food hot for 8/12/24 hours but all were to a large extent false promises. Another challenge is that, practically speaking,schools can't possibly spend all day reheating the food of every child, therefore some schools let you know in advance to pack your kids' food in thermos that could keep the food hot for long periods of time. On the other hand some schools don't have microwaves to reheat cold food.  School would resume in a short while and I'm still thinking. .... how i would solve this problem? As usual, i did further research and found a tested method to achieve this. I have done this research to help you mothers out there to cross out one more thing from your multiple to do list. Read further on how to achieve this in 3 easy steps. USE A THERMOS . Ther

I've been all about back to school food ideas on my instagram handle comfymamalifestyle and Facebook page comfymama blog. You may wonder why, well truth be told, I'm excited and relieved school is resuming (don't get it wrong, I love my kids a whole lot and would miss them but mama also needs some break) back to my flow of thoughts, so I also want to make going back to school fun for them through food.  For each time they open their lunch box, I want them to be excited and look forward to each day to open their lunch box and see the surprise mama gives them everyday.  For my son who is a picker eater, I want to make it easier for his teachers at mealtimes so they don't have to spend so much time persuading him to eat. With this food art idea, I guess he'll be excited to eat and I can sneak in veggies without it being so obvious.  So sit back as it were and see my picture collection of fun food art ideas(collated online to make easy for you to view in

I have been down the road of constantly yelling to get my voice heard and exercise my authority as a parent but i realised it doesn't yield much or positive results rather it led to my son being more aggressive, expressing himself less and withdrawing from me. As a parent, I feel terrible afterwards, having headaches and stressed after a yelling episode. To counteract these negative effects, I had to make a U turn to change my approach and parenting style.    So do you find yourself shouting or yelling at the top of your voice just to get your kids to listen to you?  Do you loose your cool and flip out on your kids for every mistake they make that annoys you? Would you like to stop this cycle of yelling, get your kids to listen to you without yelling? You might reason that dealing with kids and getting them to listen to you can be frustrating(i agree with you). Parenting is hard no doubt but we can make little adjustments here and there in our parenting techniques  just

Image courtesy clip art    B eing a mom to two toddlers ages 2 and 4 is like a roller coaster ride which kickstarts from the moment i wake up till when I can finally get some sleep at night. I'm sure most most moms can relate to this. For a stay at home mom/mompreneur like me, my typical days starts as early as 6 a.m ( when the kids are on holiday ) and 5 a.m ( when school begins ) between preparing breakfast, cleaning the house, bathing the kids, preparing the them for school, dropping them at school, preparing ahead of when they come back, sparing time for my business( production and sales of my pregnancy pillow, nursing pillows and baby wraps and blogging to share my 2 cents on motherhood ) picking them up, working on their homework together, bathing them ,squeezing in some mommy and kids time (playing hide and seek, reading together), feeding them................. Just writing down how my day pans out is making my head spin already( would love to go on and on about how my

    Every mum needs a bit of quiet to get some work done or simply to relax. One key to achieving this with little toddlers vying for your attention or trying to bring the house down is to give them some sort of distraction or diversion depending on what you want to term it.When kids are busy or preoccupied with an activity or object, then you can take advantage of this window of opportunity to either rest or get some pending work done. I have a number of ideas up my sleeve that I intend to execute to achieve this, one of such is the zip quiet book that was originally designed to develop fine motor skills and sensory awareness in kids ages 1-5 .It doubles as a quiet book for my kids especially my 2 year old daughter. It keeps them busy for a while till they bored and want to move on to something else. It's a learning ground to initiate skills such as dressing themselves with the use of zip effortlessly.  With the positive feedback and interest many mothers showed in this q

     A woman's body undergoes a major change after childbirth one of which is the weakening of her vaginal muscles as it's overstretched during labour hence some women experience urinary incontinence and decreased sexual pleasure after childbirth but the good news is that your vagina can return to normal and kegel exercises is the way to achieve this. It's sad that most women don't know what kegel exercises are. I was in that category before I became pregnant but in the course of my research, I came across it and oh boy!how thrilled I was to learn about it as such I make it my business to inform you. What are kegel exercises, how can you do it and what are the benefits? WHAT ARE KEGEL EXERCISES? Kegel exercises are exercises that help to tighten and strengthen your pelvic floor

In part 1 of this topic, I shared with you my struggle with introducing solids to my little one.so far here is my progress report-he is responding to a wide variety of food now largely because of a new method I developed to handle his refusal to eat solids. It was borne out of desperation as he was loosing weight and he fell ill frequently, cold every now and then and constant trips to the doctor's office.  So I took extra measures and came up with a method I like to call "trick and feed". I call it

There's so much for every mother to know when it comes to introducing solids to your little one that's the reason I'm still on this topic. There're some vital tips a mother needs to consider before and while introducing solids to her baby. Based on the carefully researched advice of experts, here are some tips; SIGNS TO KNOW YOUR BABY IS READY FOR SOLIDS 1. He has good neck and head control and can sit upright with support. 2. He shows an interest in the food on your plate and reaches out for it. 3. He opens his mouth when you offer him food. HOW TO INTRODUCE SOLIDS

  Research shows that ages 0-3 are the most critical timeline for the brain development of your baby. At 3, his brain would have grown to about 90% of an adullts size, therefore when I came across an information  that you can increase your baby's chances of being a genius through super foods , I decided to research further to see what these foods are and how including them in our babies diet can increase their chances of becoming geniuses. Below are results from my fact finding mission.

COURTESY ENCRESPANDO Joggling motherhood duties and secular activities can take a real toll on mothers,i know for sure but i feel sad that most mothers loose themselves in that process:put on weight,wear baggy clothes,messy hair and we blame it on being tired,no time and all...but the truth is that you can still be a chic mom and carry out your mummy duties effectively,you do not have to spend all day or break bank to achieve the chic mom look.