This happened on 9 February 2022 and it involves sleeping early. It’s one of the stories I’m sharing under the tag ‘Parenthood tales‘ which is about my daughter as I watch her grow up under. The night was early and it was 9 PM. My daughter perhaps picked up the habit of sleeping late, so
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This happened on 6 April 2022 and it is about warm water. During dinner, I was coughing badly because the chilli I was eating hit that one spot in my throat that made it itch so bad. The cough had me holding my chest, while at the same time coughing hard. At that same time,
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I am against asking my daughter to do something just because I say so and hence why I have decided to teach her about choices and responsibilities. But how do you teach about choices and responsibilities? How I learned about choices & responsibilities Growing up, my mum used to tell me of the choices I
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I’m here to talk about ‘the head band incident’. Last week was one of the many days my wife had to travel. Since her travel required her to stay overnight in Kuala Lumpur, I had to shoulder the responsibilities of waking up my four year old daughter, including preparing her for school. To be completely
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Carissa turned 11-months last Monday the 16th, and it came with a fever. By far, it must be the highest and longest so far. The fever started on Saturday night when I noticed her forehead was warmer than usual. By morning, her mother agreed that our ‘little fireball’ was unwell. We went through the day
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Lets talk about fatherhood again, in this personally called ‘fatherhood series’. You’d be able to tell it’s about fatherhood because i’ll put in in front of the title. Since Carissa came back, there has been considerable effort trying to put her to sleep. Personally, I’ve tried putting her to bed in so many ways such
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Carissa Dhea is now almost a month old, and it looks like those so called ‘sleepless nights’ my dad warned me about are proving to be true. Perhaps showing off her lungs are now 100% operational, Carissa tends to cry during the night with my wife and I both clueless of why she is doing
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The bag you see above has been in the car ever since the 21st of December. Ever since Carissa was admitted, there was this hope that she would be discharged from the Special Babies Care Unit (SCBU) in time for her mom’s birthday, the 22nd of December. The bag contained ‘baby-discharge’ essentials, such as diapers,
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It’s been close to a week since Carissa Dhea was born, and sadly, she is still very much hospitalized. Her condition is improving with her now finishing up her antibiotics, feeding well and the IV drips going plugged into her have been removed. This cute little angel of mine however is still not able to
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