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Internet Community “Mothers’ Blogs” has launched its first competition. And notwithstanding the fact that officially we are on holiday, we could not but take part in it! The terms of the competition are the following: “interesting mummies’ talks in which you participate or hear on the children’s playground, some not quite ordinary situations that you are living each day”. The prizes for the competition are given by “A Store for a Mother and Her Little One” and Maria Klimova, the author of the book “Talks in a Sandpit, ot Stories from Mothers’ Life”.

And here is our story for the competition:

The first recollections after the child’s birth are always very sweet and memorable: in two hours after Soniya’s birth (though then we did not know that it would be Soniya :) ) my husband came to the hospital and brought us a huge bouquet of orange roses, the first night with a baby (who is not within but beside you!) – I am afraid to fall asleep as what if the child will want to eat, in the afternoon I am keeping our little one under the sun rays falling through the window – a treatment for inogenous jaundice, I am a bit worried but I know that everything will be fine…

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There was something else.

Among 1-, 2-, 3-bed wards, I chose the one for two people: there is always someone to ask for help and advice if needed. Unfortunately, my roommate was Read the rest of this entry »

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Tip of the Day

After talking to Richard Shilling the walking with our little daughter (23 mo) got a new dimension.

Actually, we were not going to make any land art works so far. We just went to the Kremlin situated in the middle of our city, as usual. And there were beautification works in full play. Where should we go taking into consideration that the wind was almost blowing the baby away – 18 km/h! We found several pine trees (close to the digging works mentioned above). What was left was to think about how to entertain the little one.

land art

The venue

“Soniya, let’s build a house!” Soniya got quite enthusiastic and started bringing pine cones. And at that point I thought that we could make some art! Read the rest of this entry »

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One of our friends knowing that we often make some art and crafts with our toddlers told us about her friend who, taking care of her recently born daughter, also finds time and strength to visit a children’s home and hold craft classes there. We were impressed! And, of course, we decided to get acquainted with Elena, a young mother from Moscow, Russia.

Elena, volunteers, visits to a children’s home

Parent’s Ideas: Elena, how did the idea to teach crafts to kids in the children’s home occur to you taking into consideration the fact that your daughter was very very little?

Elena: Eleven months ago our daughter Kira arrived at our family. This event meant the beginning of a new life for us, the life full of incredible love, enormous responsibility and many beautiful moments. Taking care of our child I was thinking about the children who do not have mothers. My heart ached: my child is lying beside me, it is warm and comfortable for her and somewhere there are children who are alone and they suffer without their mums. First I tried to ignore these thoughts but they did not want to go away. And one evening, having put the baby to bed, I started looking for the information (in the Internet) how one can help children living in children’s home. I consider it to be a miracle that in just a couple of minutes Read the rest of this entry »

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We are starting a new Project in our blog:

Very Creative Person.
Interview and tutorials with creative people

And today we are inviting you to meet Nadezhda, a mother of two sons, Silvestr (3,5) and Makar (2). Actually, you already know Nadezhda as some time ago she told us how to make design paper in home environment. And today she’ll tell us how to make beautiful and healthy soap both for children and parents, such soap that is a little work of art. It can be a great homemade gift!

Very Creative Person: tutorials by creative people

Nadezhda with her elder son Silvestr

Parents’ Ideas: Nadya, could you, please, tell us how you learnt that it is possible to make soap in home environment?

Nadezhda: I learnt about such soap by chance – saw it in the Internet. My sister presented me with a woolen set for children and when I was looking for the material about wool there was soap among the other woolen abundance. Very artistic and it attracted me immediately. There was soap rolled in wool and soap which was just soap.

 

Soap “A Tasty Thing”

P.I.: How did the idea to make soap occur to you? Read the rest of this entry »

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Aquarelle Pencil Drawing with Children

There is an element of transformation in aquarelle pencil drawing which makes such kind of drawing a bit magic: there was a sketch in pencils and, in a minute, it is already an aquarelle painting. It is also very “convenient” to draw with aquarelle pencils with children: the kid is drawing both with pencils and a brush but the table, hands, cheeks, etc. stay clean.

Yesterday Soniya (22 mo) and I experimented with aquarelle pencils a bit (it was the first meeting with such pencils for our daughter). And here is what we’ve got: Read the rest of this entry »

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Our dear readers! We wish You a very happy new year!!!

We wish You the deepest silence and coolness of a wood lake within You, the changeable beauty of the World around, sunlight spots on Your pillow on Sunday morning, the smell of just made pastry when waiting for the guests, child’s amazement in Your soul and baby talk nearby (as these are the most wonderful sounds on Earth!).

Let children be always near You – Your children, Your children’s children or just someone’s children – as all the little ones on Earth are worthy of love and kindness :)

We wish You love and eternal childhood in the coming year!

Warm regards,

the authors of the blog “Parents’ Ideas

Anastasia and Natalie

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Universal peace and content are the essence of the New Year’s Eve: look how simple and at the same time happy this family is, even in such conditions!

Illustration to the article

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You can read our wishes in Russian here

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Tip of the Day

Having put our little daughter to bed, I am hurrying to the kitchen to my husband who has recently come home for lunch. Already from the threshold of the room I am starting to tell him (as we all have very little time :) ), “The other mummies on the playground say… (I suddenly stand still seeing something on the table) how beautifully you have cut the cheese!

I was amazed at my husband’s Read the rest of this entry »

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On Friday evening, in joyful anticipation, I am going to the Art Store! There are so many things for art now! Wow! But this time I need some certain things – on Sunday children are gathering for the art meeting at our place…

Today our art-group consisted of 4 children: from 1,5 to 7,5 yr. At the beginning, traditionally, a meditation part: we are teaching the kids to work with their attention, to feel the vibrations. But all this – through beauty and joy! For every meeting we (Soniya takes an active part in this process :) try to decorate everything beautifully in our room. One of the elements which adds festive mood – flowers! 18-mo-old Soniya loves to visit the flower shop and choose flowers together with her mummy and then proudly carry them home. Vera with her two little ones also drops in at the flower shop and then Bazhena and Kirill hand tulips or chrysanthemums over to me when I open the front door for them :) In my opinion, the beauty of nature, even its small element, helps forming of the aesthetic perception of the world.

The calm part of the program gives place to games (Soniya’s toys attracts the elder kids :) ). And we also spontaneously turn on the video with the dance “Ranu Ranu” which causes real joy!

    That was the dance we were trying to perform :) – watch the video

Both adults and children were dancing. Kids copy the movements so easily – one is just surprised looking at them! For the future, we decided to include some dancing element as a physical warm-up into all our art-meetings.

children’s meetings

So what about art itself? :) Impressed by Natalie’s and Arseny’s experience , we also were making pen and pencil holders (but for us those were vases :)   ).

The technique is very simple: to make balls from modeling clay, to roll them out with a rolling pin through a plastic bag on a piece of cardboard, to decorate them with some balls of food foil and then to roll the cardboard in a pipe. For little Soniya, I was making the balls myself, she only stuck them to the cardboard. For the elder kids, the task was more complicated: Read the rest of this entry »

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I think we have found a perfect way both to improve our state when we feel tired or gloomy and the state of our little daughter when she starts misbehaving or crying.

It was in Sahaja Yoga that I first learn about the beneficial influence on the organism of baths for feet . Negative energies that we could “pick up” during the day go into the basin with water and salt. Peace sets within, negative thoughts and emotions leave us, sleep improves. And imagine how surprised I was when I found out that doctors also recommend keeping our feet in the water of comfortable temperature where some sea salt is added. Moreover, they advise to do it both for adults and kids.

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Last month, the doctor who came to make a professional massage to our toddler told us something about footosoaking. Our little girl (17 mo) keeps her feet in the basin with water and salt two times a day since she turned 1 year old. She does it at the same time with us (in the morning and evening). The masseur explained to us the benefit of this activity from medical point of view:

  • the nervous system relaxes – the child becomes more peaceful;
  • the salt clears the body of chemical waste drawing it out from the organism through pores.

In fact, if our daughter is in a gloomy mood it is just enough to do the footsoaking together with her for her state to improve for the better.

And today the neurologist who we attended on a routine basis prescribed our little girl the same method for strengthening her legs. When I asked the doctor what the benefits salty water are, she answered that Read the rest of this entry »

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All the children love construction sets. Many adults love them, too. In each of us, there is a fundamental desire for creation when Something appears from nothing and the Whole is always bigger than the sum of the details it consists of… a miracle!

However, a 18 mo old toddler is too little for all those tempting sets with details which his mother enjoys looking at in the stores :) (I did not have such sets in my childhood!)… The little one would like to run and make fun but the mother, for some reason, does not like to run… The father likes to run (is it so, dad?) but he is away from home all day long… Boring…

Once, having run after our toddler for the hundredth time, I also thought, “It’s really boring… And if there were a construction set!” And at that moment it dawned upon me: Read the rest of this entry »

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