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Baby Monitors Reviewed

The article/ review below is a guest post:

Before any family can officially welcome their little bundle of joy into this world they have to make a number of preparations to ensure that they provide a safe and comfortable environment for their baby. Most parents will go ahead and purchase the fancy furniture and equipment for their precious little bundle of joy. Although there are a number of essential items that parents need for their child, a baby monitor is one of the most important items.

Baby monitors are a device that allow you to monitor the activities of your baby while you are working on other tasks in the home. There are a number of styles of baby monitors on the market; below is my review of the different styles available, with pros and cons listed.

Audio Monitors – An audio monitor will allow you to hear your baby the instant they start to cry or whenever they are waking up. They typically come with a receiver and a transmitter.
Advantages:
o They are inexpensive
o They allow you to listen to your child’s activities
Drawbacks: They do not allow you to see what is happening in your baby’s room.

Video Monitors – This type of monitor allows you to not only hear the activities in your baby’s room, it also allows you to see what is happening in there as well. The camera on this type of monitor works like a web cam, capturing the images and sending it to the receiver.
Advantages:
o Lets you see and hear what is happening in your baby’s room
o Some video monitors can be connected to a computer so that images may be viewed at a later date
Drawbacks: The audio/video monitors are the priciest of the three styles.

Motion Sensor Monitors – This type of monitors detects the movement of your child; if your child stops moving you will receive an alert, indicating that you need to check on your baby.
Advantages:
o Alerts you to when your infant stops moving
o The least expensive of the three styles
Drawbacks: Not as versatile as a video or even the audio monitor

Conclusion
In my opinion, the best style of baby monitor is the audio/video style. This style offers the best of both worlds, the ability to see and hear the activities of your child. With the advances in technology you can monitor your child with video monitors from any location, for example while you are at the office. If price is an issue for you, start saving for this style of monitor as soon as you know that you are going to be blessed with a child.

Trip Down Memory Lane

In the middle of the night, I suddenly had the urge to listen to my favorite songs.. and since it is in the middle of the night, I cannot turn the volume high enough for me to hear it. I got the nearest headphones (I wish I had a dre headphones with me) and put it on my ears and started listening to my play list. This was the first song that played.. and I so love this song.. it makes me feel I’m home..

Natatandaan mo pa ba

Nang tayong dal’wa ang unang nagkita?

Panahon ng kamusmusan

Sa piling ng mga bulaklak at halaman

Doon tayong nagsimulang

Mangarap at tumula

Natatandaan mo pa ba

Inukit kong puso sa punong mangga

At ang inalay kong gumamela

Magkahawak-kamay sa dalampasigan

Malayang tulad ng mga ibon

Ang gunita ng ating kahapon

It’s nice travelling down memory lane.. and this song is the perfect company 🙂

Care to share your senti song?

How to introduce your new partner to the kids

This is a guest post that is really helpful for single parents who wants to date again or is dating and wants the child/ children to be involved with the new partner.

Starting a new relationship as a single parent can sometimes feel a little awkward, and unless you have very close friends in the same situation, it can be hard to find people to look to for advice and support. It is important to remember that the reason you will have wanted to start a new relationship in the first place is to improve the quality of your personal life. It is your happiness that is the most important factor when starting a new relationship.

Although it can be tough on the kids and you may feel unsure whether they are ready to accept a new person into their family life, remember that your happiness will have an overall effect on how you interact with your children and the happiness you will feel from a comfortable and supportive relationship will have a great positive effects on your children too, whether they realise this or not.

Getting the balance right between what you want and what your children want is important. The key to successfully introducing your partner to your children with minimum disruption is to plan ahead to get the timings right. Make sure you are certain someone is going to stick around before you introduce them to your children otherwise the task of explaining why they haven’t come back could be next on your list.

Educating your children a little about relationships can help them to understand what’s going on. For example, if you were part of a culture of arranged marriages such as Muslim marriages, and your arranged marriage didn’t work, your children may find it hard to understand why you want to meet new people without the help of others. Telling your children why you like someone too can help them to feel friendly towards your new partner when you finally do meet. If you met your new partner on a site like http://www.eharmony.co.uk you will be able to show your children a photograph of him or her, and a list of the things that they like doing. This will help your children find something in common with your new partner too.

Arrange a moment out with all of you – even if it’s a short trip in the car to the grocery store together or you and your new partner pick your child up from their school together – this will show your children that you trust your partner and can spend time with them and your child together with no favouritism, it will also show your children that your new partner likes to get involved with day to day family life too. This is a much better way to introduce the children to your partner for the first time instead of them coming straight round to your home where the children may feel territorial or that your partner is intruding.

Patience is the key, and the right partner will be patience with you and your children as they slowly become part of your new, happier life.