Sylvia Omondi, Author at Thriving SuperMama

Family Vacation during Covid-19 pandemic

August 30, 2020 3 Mins Read

The increasing surge of Corona Virus has dampened many families’ vacation plans. After months of staying home and self-isolation, many are eager to get out and have some fun especially with the ease of restrictions previously put in place by various governments to contain the spread of the virus like international travel bans and restricting movement to essential services only. Travelling with family need not be worrying in this season:Pexels Whether it is safe to travel depends on many variables, namely, how you plan to do so, where you want to go, the rates of infection in your chosen destination, who you are travelling with, and your anticipated behavior once you arrive.As you plan for your family vacation, consider the…

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How to work from home with kids during Covid-19 season

August 24, 2020 3 Mins Read

With the outbreak of Covid-19, it is fortunate to have a job that allows you to work from home. However, it poses an even greater challenge for parents who have to juggle between parenting and working from home.Children demand around-the-clock attention and it gets even worse when they see you at home with them. Your work productivity will be highly affected as parenting while struggling to put in some work hours, attend meetings and keep deadlines is a challenge. As such, how do you find balance between the two? How do you navigate life at the intersection of working at home and mom-ing?Here are a few tips to help balance parenting and working from home: Create a ScheduleIt’s important to…

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Dealing with Postpartum hair loss

August 18, 2020 3 Mins Read

The beginning of motherhood is an exciting time. Your body goes through so many changes in adjusting to the new life. It can therefore be quite daunting to start experiencing hair loss after receiving your bundle of joy.Postpartum hair loss refers to hair loss experienced after giving birth. It is not a direct result of breast feeding, so please continue feeding your baby breast milk. Actually, it is quite normal to lose hair after giving birth. In fact we all lose hair every day. However, the change in hormones during pregnancy enables the mother to retain more hair and that’s when most experience the pregnancy glow. After giving birth, hormones go back to normal and a larger than normal amount…

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Harassment at Work

July 10, 2020 4 Mins Read

Up until the #MeToo movement, women all over the world were being sexually harassed at their places of work but none came forward because they would either be turned away, fired or continued being harassed. The movement was not only shunned but also misunderstood for making big men lose their jobs whereas the main objective was to tell the survivors tale. At least that was Activist Tatiana Burke’s mission 10 years ago. When Alyssa Milano, an actress, picked up the campaign two years ago, she sought to ‘give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. Workplace harassment is quite common and can turn a great working environment into a toxic and unproductive. Sometimes harassment at work gets reported…

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How to talk to your child about racism

July 4, 2020 4 Mins Read

The dust about George Floyd is barely settling. The world was treated to such a horrendous scene of what goes on day in, day out in the USA and around the world. The following days following the murder of George Floyd were dark filled with anger and other horryfing videos of police officers in the US roughing up black boys as young as 14. Emotions were running high; others joined the movement #ICantBreath and other kept the #BlackLivesMatter movement alive. The other quote of privileged narcissist fellows reminded as #AllLivesMatter. As a parent and a mum to a boy, my heart broke. https://www.facebook.com/107755434267742/photos/a.108524667524152/179165493793402/?type=3 I hope when my son grows up, he travels around the world. I pray that he becomes…

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Black is Beautiful

July 3, 2020 4 Mins Read

Before hashtags, there were power movements created by thought leaders who felt indifferent about certain stands, beliefs and practices. One of such is the famous Black is Beautiful movement which started in the 1960s by African Americans. It spread across the world beyond the USA and featured in the writings of Steve Biko in his Black Consciousness Movement.Black is beautiful aimed to tell a different story for a black person. That their natural features were beautiful. A sight to behold even. Their tough, sometimes kinky hair was beautiful and their dark skin was as beautiful as black. For decades, blacks, especially the women all around the world were pressured into standards of beauty which entailed using heat to strain their…

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Single mum in University-songstress Theafrican Muhonja

June 22, 2020 7 Mins Read

What are your dreams? What are your aspirations? What keeps you up at night? For Theafrican Muhonja, her dream is to see and live in a society that celebrates gender equity and representation of the African woman. Basically, a society with zero femicide and gender-based violence. She hopes for a generation that embraces women to express themselves freely and enjoy a positive womanly experience.I guess you are wondering who is she? Exactly why is she called Theafrican? Is it her real name? https://youtu.be/0zU9UKMpBEA Theafrican Muhonja on her latest release. Muhonja has many titles to her name. She is a mum, Kenyan born and raised, an artist, an activist, singer, song writer, a proud founder of Young Mothers’ Association and a…

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HIV+ mum raising HIV- children. Being Phenny Awiti Spielfeld

June 11, 2020 7 Mins Read

‘Hosting a tiny virus; HIV’.Her Instagram bio reads. She is one of those women I have admired and watched from a distance. She scares me. In a good way of course. That full blast courage to step and live in your truth scares me. She is Phenny Awiti Spielfeld, a 28 year old, wife and mum of 3, two girls and one boy. Phenny Awiti Spielfeld At the tender age of sixteen, she discovered she was HIV positive following a blood drive at her high school that led to her sister telling her that she was born with it. A teenager barely out of puberty, savoring up the little pleasures of life, kissing that boy under a tree, writing love…

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Chantelle Petit -Fistula Survivor

June 1, 2020 6 Mins Read

Chantelle Petit, holding onto her daughter, Summer. The journey to motherhood is paved with fears, cravings, anticipation and sometimes anxiety. At hallmark, the D-day usually marks the beginning of yet another beautiful journey for most mums. However, for Chantelle Petit, it marked the first page of her Fistula survival story. An obstetric fistula occurs if a mother has prolonged obstructed labor but lacks access to emergency C-section leaving holes in the tissue sections between the mother’s vagina and her bladder or rectum. This can go on for days leading to the death of the child. In rare cases, like Chantelle’s case the child survives not without complications. Read also: How I dealt with my sons watching porn Chantelle Petit is…

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Gender Based Violence in COVID-19 season

May 27, 2020 5 Mins Read

Woman showing the STOP sign: Pexels According to Sida, gender-based violence is any harm or suffering that is perpetrated against a woman or girl, man or boy and that has negative impact on the physical, sexual or psychological health, development or identity of the person. The cause of the violence founded in gender-based inequities and discrimination. In her speech, listed as number 35 in American Rhetoric’s Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century, she said, ‘If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.’ At a time, she was facing both internal administration pressure and external Chinese pressure to…

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