Essential Oils That We Wish Existed - Sincerely, All Moms

Whether you are an essential oil lover or not, we bet you’ve tried or at least wanted to try some peppermint oil or lavender oil to ease out your tension and have a sound sleep. Many moms swear by these oils to heal headaches that are a common thing during parenting stage of your life. Kids are little angels and we all love them to the moon and back but we can’t deny that time and again they have proved the need of some oils that don’t exist. This has left us craving for these imaginary oils that we only wish were real! Read on for a good laugh and then get back to your parenting mode!

Forget-Me-Not Blend
The times when your kid keeps forgetting to brush his teeth even after your 74th reminder, saying that he forgot. That is a red signal for you to come back home to him in the evening! You want to forget you address but alas you have a sharper memory than your little one, at least in this respect. This oil would have come handy to erase the ‘forgotten’ excuse from their life!

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Anti-Eye-Rolling Blend

While your angelic kid moves towards tween years, you are learning to accept their demonic face but are unable. Kids during this time often roll their eyes at us and want to shoo us away from their ‘perfect’ lives and this oil could have been a life saver. It would have changed their expressions from eye rolling to welcoming smile but sad, it’s not yet been invented!

Anti-Sunrise Blend
All the toddlers who have a habit of getting up at dawn and start playing with musical instruments need to gift this to their mothers. How we wish such an oil existed that could keep the kids from waking up before 8 or at the very least keep them from switching on a high volume toy or musical instrument!

Hurry-Up Blend

Oh we all need this one for sure to get us out of times when our toddlers decide to poop right before we are leaving the house. Times when your child is taking his own sweet time to look for a missing shoe and has conveniently forgotten that the school bus reaches in 10 minutes! This oil will keep the entire family on track, such a need!

Temper-Tantrum Tamer
Shopping with your kids could be so much fun if this was invented. You could select things for yourself without bothering about a tantrum from your little one about a new toy he just saw. This oil could tame his temper tantrum and leave you at peace to do the long due shopping!

Mega- Mood Stabilizer

Mothers of teens would happily pay any sum you ask for in return of a bottle of this one! Asking your teens about their day will not be reciprocated with sarcastic comments and irritated sounds if scientists invent this very essential oil. How much we want this mega mood stabilizer to remind us that we love our teens!

Open-Your-Eyes Blend
This will be a great invention for mothers whose kids and husbands close their eyes in order to find something. It might help them see things around them before shouting for help. Mothers will be so relieved to not have to pick up ‘lost’ things from below their kid’s nose!

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Do-It-Anyway Blend

What an invention this would be, kids will do things they don’t want to that too without arguing! Diffuse this oil in their room when they are reluctant to clean their room and watch them do it anyway! It will also be so useful when they are fussy eaters, a drop in their food and relax as they eat it without further drama!

Pre-Baby-Body Blend
The ultimate thing moms need is an oil that can instantly transform their bodies to what it used to be before they had kids. It will not only shrink their waists but will also give them the sane feel they enjoyed prior to being a mom. Just a few drops of this magic portion and you are toned and sane like the good old days!

Reasonable-Rational Blend

This is an essential, mothers have been looking for to keep their sanity intact. Use it when you want your kids to be reasonable during a fight with his siblings or peers. It might help him agree to the fact that it’s unreasonable to fight with other kids over a toy. It will also come to your rescue during a reasoning session with your kid when you want him to be rational in putting his points!

It was a good laugh though it raised your wishes to owning some or all of these! We are sorry these have yet not been invented but let’s hope they soon find techniques to get such great stuff prepared in huge quantities!

Helping Shy Teen Deal With Social Situations At School

Exiting school bus with sagging shoulders, watery eyes, head hung low and feet barely dragging the weight of the torso. Does that sound like your teen returning home from school? Such a scene raises curiosity, pain and sympathy all at once in a parent. Your curiosity is quenched by learning that the reason for this sadness is her inability to converse with peers, leaving her alone and awkward. This pains your heart and you sympathize with her. Is that all you can do to make her feel better?

That’s probably not enough, shyness might not sound a big deal in early childhood years but any teen with less than a bubbly nature is frowned upon! What do you think that leaves your child with? Loneliness, insecurity, and sadness. As a parent you can’t settle for this, you want your child to grow as a happy, confident and content person. You can achieve this and you don’t have to actually trade you child’s shy nature for other qualities. It's her own personal characteristic and what needs to be done is to help her manage social situations. We present to you 5 tips that may just do the trick!

Involve Teachers

Teacher involvement to deal this situation sounds like a great idea. Teachers generally have had experience with shy teens and might have their own strategies to help these kids talk in class. A PTM might be the ideal opportunity for you to shed light on your child’s shy attribute and request the teacher to put in some efforts towards dealing it. A teacher might help the child by allowing her sit with her friends where she is more comfortable or maybe allow her ask questions personally. It depends on the teacher’s way but it will certainly be of help!

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Accompanied by Friends

Your child might have a talent like dancing or singing but exhibiting it in public might bring chills to her. When there is a social event where you think your child’s talent can come up, try involving her friends. Peers with similar interests are a great support for shy kids. Arrange for the participation of your child and her friends, call them home prior to the event and pitch in to drop them all off together. The physical presence of like-minded people around her will subside her fears and she will enjoy every bit of the event!

Role Play

Preparing in advance for upcoming social situations is a great way to ease your child’s nervousness. For example, if your child is going to be a part of a school trip away from you, help her practice conversations with her peers. Rehearse ice-breaking phrases with her that will help initiate a conversation. The simplest and sure shot way is by complimenting someone. A simple “You are wearing a smart t-shirt” can lead to great friendships. All teens know the language of fashion and it is the best to spot to hit on to get words flowing!

Snatch Their “Crutch”

As a young kid, they may not have devised an escape from social situations. But with time, increases peer expectations and thus they come up with escape routes or crutches! Some teens may find books as a resort to avoid social interactions. Neither they will look at someone, nor will they have to interact. Each of them will have their own ways of escaping but as a parent, you need to find that out and then snatch it away from them. Make a pact with them to not carry a book while going out, no earphones for school or no sleeping in the lunch hour. Increase their chances of making eye contacts with others so that they can actually use the ice-breaking phrases they practiced with you!

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Help From Adults

When we were kids, many of us have been through this shyness phase and have learned to deal with it. We feared public speaking, starting conversations with peers or even asking a question to the teacher. We had our struggles and our own tricks to deal with it. Telling your child’s coach or a senior at school about your teen’s shyness might get you help. They might have experienced it and know what worked for them. Your child might benefit from their success stories!

Each child has her own set of qualities that might be overshadowed by her shyness. But you won’t want to give away her individuality for an outgoing personality. The agenda should not be to transform your child into someone else, rather it should be about helping her handle social situations better. All this to be done because you don’t want her shyness to come in the way of her achieving her dreams. She is perfect the way she is and deserves her dreams to be fulfilled so incorporate these tricks and watch her climb the ladder of success!

Baby Care Tips for Mothers to Follow

The happiness that parents have for their newborn is so immense that no matter how stressful or tiring raising a baby can be, parents will always have a smile on their face. A pediatrician will give you all the information that you need for the correct development of your baby but we would like to share some Baby Care Tips that you can read up on to help you care for your baby even more:

It is true that babies cry when they are hungry or are in discomfort. So it is safe to assume that a baby cries for many reasons because they are unable to communicate in another method. Till sometime back most people thought that babies cried due to a stomach ache. But the modern day science says that the reason might be due to acid reflux; and this is painful for adults so you can image what a baby might be experiencing. If your baby is crying, arching his back and also spitting it is important that you take your baby to a pediatrician immediately as these are the symptoms of acid reflux. 

We encourage you to hold your baby as much as possible. It is perfectly alright. Please ignore if someone says that you should not do so or else your baby will be too much dependent on you. There is no way that a mother’s touch will bring harm to the baby. They are a little miracle that needs to be held, cradled and hugged. Scientific studies have also proved that babies feel more satisfied when they are held and grow up with high self esteem. 

Baby wipes can prove to be really expensive and can also be the reason for irritation to the sensitive skin of a baby. We suggest that you use an ordinary damp cloth that is soft and clean to wipe your baby. 

Sterilizing the baby’s bottle used to be somewhat of a time consuming task. However the times have changed and there are some sterilizing machines available in the market that easily sterilize a bottle in a matter of minutes. There are also some that simply require you to put in the microwave and within minutes the bottles are all clean and ready to use.

It has also been proven that babies can be soothed with gentle and soft music. The melodies sound of instruments and a calming voice can quite an irritated baby. In fact if you play music in the car it can also put your little angel to sleep. Give it go and you will agree with us.

Remember that these tips are for you as suggestions to help you but we would request you to follow the instructions of your pediatrician. 

How to make traveling trouble-free with baby?

A thought of traveling with an infant can give you jerks of stress as toddlers are harder to handle while moving from one place to another. Toddlers take their time in getting adapted to the changing locations and messes up while traveling. Every parent has to think thousands of times while planning a travel with infants and make countless preparations about baby accessories and baby care commodities. You don’t have to stress up for the travel. There are certain tips that can help you make your traveling trouble-free and easy. Read below for more information to know how to travel with baby?

Dress up your child in easy attires and carry along-with surplus clothes. While traveling it is essential to ensure the comfort of your child. If your toddler is not comfortable then he is likely to give you the worst traveling experience of lifetime. Baby clothes should be carried along-with in sufficient quantity. Dress up your child in simple cotton clothes and cover him from head to toe because if the child is uncovered than he can catch infections from the dust around. Extra clothes are carried so that you can change the dress whenever the child messes up his clothes.

Feed the child before traveling as all the infants require sleep after the feeding session. It is an ideal way to carry child from one place to another while he is slept. Take milk bottle and some simple food along-with so that you can feed the child when he wakes up. Pack some healthy juice in summers as child might feel thirsty on the way.

Infants are in habit of peeing and messing up quite frequently. A diaper cannot hold back for much long so it will be better if you carry extra diapers. Diaper can blast on your lap and leaving you with your baby’s waste all around on your clothes. Diaper should be changed immediately once when you start feeling that next waste attempt can blow it down.

Always keep baby care lotions and diaper wipes as these baby care commodities are very much required while traveling. After you use diaper wipe to clean up the mess, always use baby lotion to avoid rashes on the skin. These things are highly essential to ensure more comfort of your toddler.

Carry some toys along with to distract your child while traveling. Try and keep easy and small soft toys that can capture the attention of your toddler.

Traveling with toddler is an invincible experience and help making it more comforting with above stated essential tips.

How to find best Baby Feeding Bottles?

Parenting in itself is a big challenge, especially for the first time parents. The more they are possessive about their baby’s health, the more mistakes they commit. One of the key concerns of all the parents is to find the best feeding bottle for their toddler. Massive collection in feeding bottles is available in market. Some of the leading brands in such bottles are Playtex, Dr Brown, and Gerber etc.

The bottle must be picked keeping in mind the age of the child. First and foremost, check the teats of the bottle as it controls the flow of milk out of the bottle. The flow of the milk has to be appropriate and not strangle the baby. Also consider that child must get milk in sufficient quantity.

When you are done with the purchase, firstly boil the bottle properly in order to kill all the germs. Wash the bottle properly every time after feeding the baby. The bottles have to be of good quality and must accommodate well-some quantity of milk as you need to store breast milk before leaving for work. Keep the bottles at the most hygienic area of the house as babies get easily prone to infections. If not taken care properly, it can cause fatal infections to the baby.

You can also pick plastic bottles as it has been proved by FDA, United States that there is no chemical work used on the bottles that can cause a threat to the baby’s health. Plastic bottles are considered to be the traditional bottles. Nowadays plastic bottles are speedily replaced by glass bottles. Glass bottles are al so equally safe to use.

The health of the baby is worth taking extra care, so for every article you pick in baby accessories has to be harmless and ensures high security. No matter what you buy for the child, it must guarantee full security of the child’s skin and health. Massive variety of baby accessories is available online or you can find them in every super market, check them out and pick the best one for your toddler.