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Sweating is something that we normally encounter every day, but when it comes to our babies, nothing is too little to be concerned about. As a parent, you can’t help but feel worried and curious about why your baby is sweating a lot, especially when it involves your baby’s head.
Do you want to know more about baby head sweating? Here’s some useful information for you to ponder.
An old wives’ tale that may probably hold a grain of truth, pineapples supposedly kick start labor for expecting women. Fact or folklore? Read on.
More than just your favorite summer fruit or SpongeBob Squarepants’ home of choice (who lives in a pineapple under the sea?), pineapples are a chockful of vitamins, nutrients and history. Before we jump into the main topic of this article, here are some quick fun facts about pineapples:
2020 is shaping up to be a great time for babies! From names to nurseries, Kinacle has a look at 10 of this year’s biggest trends. If you’re expecting a baby sometime soon or simply looking for gift ideas for a brand new parent, read on.
What a time to be alive. Especially for babies! With the start of a brand-new decade, the youngest members of our families have every reason to be excited. And it’s only March! And that’s probably because 2019 wasn’t too shabby for babies either. With hundreds of trending baby-friendly gadgets, apps, clothes, games and even diaper delivery services, we’re not surprised that 2019’s baby-lovin’ trends spilled over to this year.
Let’s take a quick look back at some of 2019’s baby trends that’s ushered in a great 2020 for your baby!
Scouring the internet for a list of must-haves for a new mom is easy – from swanky, luxurious spa memberships to inexpensive, handmade gift baskets, online searches should glean a chockful of results that will give you an endless list of gift ideas for new moms that will leave your head spinning.
But we hope to end your search right here, right now because we’re sure that not many results online or anywhere else will show you anything that won’t require you to provide your credit card details.
All toddler’s go through a shy period, but for some it’s more than just a phase. Children each have their own little personalities, and some are naturally shyer than others. So, if your little one is naturally shy, you may be wondering how to boost their confidence.
The good news is, confidence is something you can nurture in young children. So, to help, below you’ll discover some of the best ways to boost your toddler’s confidence.
A time-honored childcare practice in many cultures around the world, find out how massaging your baby can soothe almost every ill and ache that causes your little one to cry… and help them become healthier and happier.
Let’s start with the all-too-familiar story of two mothers helping soothe their little one’s first bout of colds…
It’s late at night. There’s a mom in America right now, scrolling past Google results on her phone, looking worriedly at her baby finally asleep after a full 5 hours of on and off crying and general fussiness, her baby’s tiny nose all red and stuffed up and chubby cheeks flushed pink as she is experiencing her first bout of colds.
She might find a hundred different results online telling her what to do, what not to do, when to worry and when to take her baby to the doctor. She’ll find a few bits and pieces of advice that are helpful and maybe an article or two that will tell her how to deal with her sick baby but it still doesn’t completely ease her worries. She sees an article on baby massages but she’s not so sure. She’s never done it before. Something about essential oils, too? She checks out a few more articles until she feels very drowsy.
“I’ll take her to the doctor tomorrow,” will be her last thought as she drifts off to sleep, well aware that she’ll be up again in a few hours.
Meanwhile in another part of the world:
The sun just rose in Southeast Asia. Somewhere in a quiet, rural town, there’s another young mother whose baby is also having the sniffles for the first time in his young life. She is calmly preparing for a quick morning massage session for her baby which she learned from her mother. The baby, also quite fussy, is in the crib fresh from a warm bath.
Wrapped up in a towel, she carries him to the bed where she gently massages the baby’s chest area, front and back in gentle, rotating motions with a bit of home-made massage oil while softly humming a lullaby. She concludes her baby’s massage with some quick strokes at the forehead and towards the nostrils.
Her baby, now visibly calmer, is ready and relaxed for his morning nap. Although she openly embraces the traditional ways of soothing her baby, she also knows that her baby may need to be taken to the doctor if the colds persist. She’ll wait and see in two to three days. For the moment, her baby is calm and feeling better; that is what’s most important. She herself grew up being given regular massages. Massages, as far she has known, were weaved into the fabric of her everyday life.
The two moms discussed above are from different parts of the globe, both worried about their baby’s first colds and both doing the very best they can to soothe their little ones. One is not better than the other, of course. Both are simply finding ways to make their babies feel better based on what they know.
Their stories simply illustrate that while Western parents do not tend to instinctually look to baby massages as a way to soothe their baby through common illnesses, baby massages are often practiced by mothers in other parts of the world taught to them by their mothers and grandmothers before them.
An ever-present crisis that plagues our children’s schools and everyday lives, Kinacle takes a look at the viral story of 9-year-old Quaden Bayles and using empathy as the best way to battle bullying.
Bullying is America’s sleeping dragon. Everyone hopes and prays it stays deep in its slumber, never showing it’s beastly face, never harming our children but we all know that once in a while the sleeping dragon wakes up and reminds us of how ugly, how hurtful and how damaging it can be. And, as evidence shows – deadly.
Because of its prevalence, bullying has become a horrifying kind of “normal” that it’s sadly one of those things that children must learn to understand as part of everyday life. But up until today, it’s still happening, we’re still discussing it, we’re still looking for solutions and we’re still finding the most effective ways to put an end to bullying.
Pregnancy is typically viewed as an exciting, happy and wonderful experience. You have this little miracle growing inside you that you made, and the hormones running through the body should make you feel energized and happy. Only, you don’t.
Instead, you feel tired, sweaty, you have horrendous morning sickness and you feel terrible. You hate your pregnancy, and that makes you feel even worse as you think there must be something wrong with you. Sound familiar? If so, you’re definitely not alone!
Far more women hate their pregnancy than you might think. While it is a wonderful and euphoric experience for many women, for others it’s an utter nightmare. Each woman has a different experience of pregnancy and that’s OK! You don’t have to love it, especially if you’re experiencing bad side effects. However, if you are hating your pregnancy, you don’t just have to ride it out alone.
Here, you’ll discover some top tips you can follow to make your pregnancy more bearable.
Parenting is a unique, one-of-a-kind journey with many paths. There is no one, conventional way of raising children and building a family. This is truer more so in recent times where you can find more and more diverse, non-traditional families, LGBT couples or divorced co-parenting couples who successfully rear and raise happy, healthy families.
One particular family dynamic and co-parenting trend that is growing in popularity in recent years is “platonic parenting” which, in the most basic terms, means two (sometimes more) non-romantically involved people work together to raise children as a family unit.
In a society that, for decades, has been taught and raised to believe that only traditional nuclear families with a mom and a dad have the capability to raise children, and only recently began to recognize the capability of same-sex couples – platonic parenting can seem like an ultra-modern, progressive idea. However, many platonic parents say it’s quite a simple concept: just two or more adults raising children together.
But is it really as simple as that? Kinacle examines the good, the bad and the ugly of platonic parenting so you can determine if it’s an arrangement that will work best for you.
As parts of America experienced one of the heaviest snowfalls in years thanks to the Polar Vortex, many families have found themselves snowed in with baby. While the snow may be beautiful to look at, it’s not exactly great to venture out in; particularly if you have a baby.
If being stuck indoors with baby is making you go a little stir crazy, here you’ll discover some great snow day activities to keep you busy.
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