April, 2021 – Thriving SuperMama

How to speak to your family about taking the Covid-19 vaccine

April 8, 2021 4 Mins Read

The question of taking the Covid-19 vaccine or not is on every dinner table conversation. With the world going through a pandemic that has left many people at a standstill, researchers have worked on producing the Covid-19 vaccine that spurs a lot of controversies. As such, it’s normal for people to have questions about them. Amidst the popular and medical opinions on getting vaccinated, your family members may have their concerns. How do you start off this conversation? Primarily, it’s preferred you just listen to them without judgment and identify the root of their concerns. Say acknowledging statements to make them feel safe and heard like, “I’ve noticed that you are stressed at work. How you’re working from home seems…

Motherhood 101 Rachel Murugi

How to help your child overcome car sickness

April 7, 2021 4 Mins Read

Car sickness is when a person reacts badly to motion, especially kids. It happens more often in children as compared to adults. When traveling, a child’s inner ear is always concentrating on the movement around them while their eyes are focused on that book or screen and since they are sitting still, the information from the movement through the inner ear tends to send conflicting data to the brain which then leads to vomiting, nausea, cold sweats, and other motion sickness symptoms. With car sickness, matters of inheriting those conditions from family is always a 50-50 chance. A child may have it or not. Parents with car sickness problems may have kids who don’t even portray signs of motion sickness…

Womanly Rachel Murugi

Top 5 ways to overcome overwhelm when working from home

April 7, 2021 5 Mins Read

Working from home is something that has been introduced to some of us at this hard time of the worldwide spread pandemic. Especially when you have kids and trying to work from home during this Covid-19 season, it gives you an idea that you will now be spending more time with your family, relax and also work at your amole schedule. Whereas this is true, the reality is, working from home needs much more self-discipline, focus, and time management. It may sound stupid for those who’ve never tried it but working from home can truly be problematic. Many people who have been through this road have been sharing how they are procrastinating important issues, always unfocused, bored, disorganized, and overwhelmed…

Motherhood 101 Rachel Murugi

Why your childhood trauma is affecting your parenting

April 7, 2021 4 Mins Read

Facing childhood trauma often follows someone to later manifest in your parenting. Those traumatic experiences from your childhood can negatively affect your parenting and need a lot of work to get over. Otherwise, you could then project to your children and also cause them childhood traumas too. In this article, learn more about how it may affect your parenting and how to cope up. Some of these horrific childhood traumatic and stressful events that can affect parenting include; Sexual or physical abuse, rape, kidnapping, car or plane crashes, war, natural disasters like hurricanes or floods, shootings like drive-by’s or school shootouts, witnessing of murder, crimes or death scenes among others. Another type of childhood hardship that majorly, hurts the family…

News & Trending Rachel Murugi

8 Indoor Post- Easter celebration ideas

April 5, 2021 4 Mins Read

With the deadly Covid-19 virus pandemic still affecting many countries worldwide, this year’s Easter celebrations are mostly being done inside the pods or homesteads as compared to the real tradition of Easter celebrations where people would go for egg hunts around the block or attend family-friendly events and have fun outdoors. I know most of you are feeling down and wondering how to make this season truly special. Well, don’t worry, that indoor celebration can truly be more awesome than the outside celebrations. With today being Easter Monday, you can still make a festive Easter basket, chip in some special traditional brunch recipe, ensure that you don’t forget about dyeing Easter Eggs. This activity can truly keep Easter celebration spirits…

Food+Travel Rachel Murugi

The Perfect Chicken Recipe for Dinner on Easter Sunday

April 3, 2021 2 Mins Read

Adapted from Southern Living Instead of the common tradition of cooking lamb meat, try spicing that Easter dinner with some yummy Ginger Ale-Can Chicken. For this recipe, two whole chickens are marinated in a mixture that includes liquid steak seasoning, rosemary, garlic, and pepper. The chickens then get oven-baked vertically over opened cans of ginger ale until they are perfectly roasted. The secret is that in the hot oven the ginger ale steams, keeping the chicken moist. This easy roasting method also allows fat to drip through and around the chickens, giving them a rich flavor and a beautiful golden(brown color). This will result in great taste on the table especially if served fresh and hot, it would certainly give…

Self Love + Wellness Rachel Murugi

Natural ways to boost those happy hormones in your body

April 2, 2021 3 Mins Read

There are four famously known hormones that are produced to help promote positive feelings like pleasure, happiness, and love. Your happy hormones can actually, be boosted in a variety of ways. One of them is known as Dopamine and its production focuses on pleasure. It plays a motivational role and also the brain reward system. Serotonin deals with well-being and happiness. It’s also a mood stabilizer. We also have Oxytocin and it focuses on bonding, love, and trust. The last one is Endorphins and they are produced in order to relieve pain and relax. There are a few natural ways to help you boost your happy hormones hence stay happy all day especially when you feel low or bored. Exercising…

Motherhood 101 Rachel Murugi

6 Easy Natural remedies for your child’s cold and flu

April 2, 2021 5 Mins Read

While growing up, a child tends to catch flu once in a while and as a parent, you have to make sure he or she has the perfect remedies to help relieve the symptoms which if persist, one is advised to visit the hospital immediately. Instead of running to the drugstore to get cough and cold meds, which actually aren’t recommend for kids, there are plenty of safe home remedies worth trying which really help so much. There’s is nothing torturous like having that feeling of seeing your kids sick with a cough or cold and you just want to make them feel better. It makes you so desperate pushing, you to try and help ease their symptoms as fast…

Motherhood 101 Rachel Murugi

5 Common Challenges faced by parents with autistic children

April 2, 2021 6 Mins Read

In case you don’t know what the word autistic means, I’ll give you the meaning but first, let’s know what the word autism means. It describes what an autistic person goes through. Parents of autistic children tend to work extra hard in taking care of their children. One thing that truly hurts and challenges so much is seeing their children go through tantrums, become aggressive, injure themselves, and refuse to comply with requests. Here are just a few common challenges parents face all around the globe while raising autistic children; Discomfort & Anxiety Due to characteristic communication difficulties, an autistic person may have severe anxiety issues but undergo a decreased ability to express it.The inability of people with autism to…

Food+Travel Rachel Murugi

Simple things you should know when Traveling with your kids

April 1, 2021 8 Mins Read

As a parent, you have traveled to lots of nearby and far destinations with your kids and maybe it has always been stressful and boring till today. Well, don’t worry, here is how to have the most peaceful and fun journeys while traveling with your children. As a single parent raising two adorable children aged 5 and 10, traveling has been quite a fuss especially when we first started traveling together. When I got used to it, everything got much easier and calmer. Traveling with children needs total care and attention. From my experience, I had to ensure that I first plan our trip early and make sure that I know what we shall be doing. Sometimes when we travel…

April 2021

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