Using car seats for our children’s safety is a perennial issue but Janet Tay finds that there are no simple solutions to ensuring that road users utilise this contraption that can save our children’s lives.
Despite wanting to tell the truth to her toddler all the time, Janet Tay finds that being a new parent means employing all sort of methods to get the job done – and occasionally lying one’s nose off.
It’s just feeding a hungry infant but why does breastfeeding in public provoke so much controversy? In conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week, Janet Tay asks some experts and nursing mothers whether they think breastfeeding in public can be normalised in Malaysia.
Some people can’t resist babies, and who can blame them? Those chubby cheeks are just asking to be pinched, but Janet Tay wonders why people can’t do parents the courtesy of asking first.
When breastfeeding stretches to toddlerhood, it becomes a journey with different challenges. Weaning a toddler isn’t for the fainthearted, Janet Tay realises, as she tries unsuccessfully to wean her toddler from his favourite pastime.
Do nausea and identity crisis go hand in hand in pregnancy? For Janet Tay, a taste of motherhood and making choices that weren’t her own began in the first trimester.
Janet Tay hopes to teach her toddler a few things about happiness but ends up learning from him instead.
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