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maradelkitchen:
AlphaHandMaiden,biko manage this

How do you get the puff puff to be soft and puffy? Mine is heavy and flat like pancake.

@Zaynie, I agree with what you wrote. There was a time that I was very particular about such things. Then I went to a foreign country for a long while and decided to put them in school there. First day back, I thought they would be superstars as per they were in higher grades than where they were put into there. My oldest returned and spent the whole day practicing how to tie his shoe lace. He said even KG babies were tying their laces and he was the only one who couldn't.

So many things that they took for granted were things that my kids were struggling with. Learnt not to put put too much stake on academics (reading and writing) but just let them be kids and learn age appropriate tasks.

Happy birthday dear.

May your cup never run dry.

babythug:
Couldn't help laughing at your story! I imagined you coming from your routines to chaos of some sort!!

You can encourage their mom to start trying routines perhaps it'll reduce her heart ache in the long run....

Routines help me more than the kids because I have to always be in control and I like knowing what should come next. Being spontaneous is not my strength.

fcisca:
You mean you stated in your application that you had no relation in the UK and ended up staying at their address? Pray they don't ask you at the POE though.
That is an outright case of giving false information during application and it attracts deportation and ban.

Nah. I stated all my immediate family there. I use a hotel booking for the application but put my sister's address at the POE. Sometimes, I might stay with a family friend and put their address. Plans change.

kaylo31:
Its an emergency exit, anyone assigned to sit next to it is usually taught how to open it in case of an emergency and people need to get out. Its not so difficult to open once its explained to you.

Even if you are taught how to open it, how did the person open it without it alerting anyone.

So, a friend had a medical emergency and I ended up sleeping at her place for 2 days, long story. She has twin boys that are 5years old and a 2 year old girl. OMG. Those kids ran circles around me. Twin mamas, I raise hand and cut cap for una.

I could not and still cannot tell them apart. They even have scars in the same spots. They have name bands but they kept stylishly switching them. To get them ready for bed was a nightmare. But I remembered Sayoberry and made sure they slept in separate rooms by 8pm. After crying and refusing to cooperate, they eventually slept off by 9:30pm or thereabouts. The girl was such an angel and even tried to help prepare their meals.

It was a new experience for me. I now have a healthy respect for twin mums.

MamaGiovanni: If someone states he's staying at a hotel in his visa application, gets the visa, cancels the hotel before he travels.
And he writes the address of a relative who wasn't mentioned on the visa application as the place he's staying in the UK. Will this cause problems at the POE? Someone is telling me that it doesn't matter, as the agents at the POE do not have the details of the visa application.

I do it all the time. Never had an issue. But then people's situations are different. Also, I don't fly in via Heathrow. Other airports are more chill.

The case is still in court. It's Chrisland VGC and the girl was 2yrs 11 months at the time of the alleged assault. She also said another of her classmates was assaulted although the mum has refused to testify due to the stigma.

Chrisland got the teacher a SAN to fight his case and said the parent is trying to tarnish the school's image. I keep wondering if it's possible that the kid might be saying the truth.

Someone posted that the environment
and school layout would make it impossible. But I know that if someone wants to do such an act, they would find a way. Especially as people would be sort of relaxed as they cannot fathom such happening. Let's wait and see what the courts will come up with.

babylove01:
Zaynie, Blank, AlphaHandMaiden,

Good Evening
I have to back my small madam before she sleeps unless she's extremely tired. Although she's 16months now but I want to try and stop it but nothing seems to work. Please help oooooo

I'm in the same boat with you for my last born. It started out as convenient, now it's part of his routine. I'm hoping to outgrow it soon but no signs yet.

AlphaHandMaiden:
We are doing good thanks. I am venturing into new and exciting things a lot to do. How I have also not killed someone or a whole string of people is by the grace of God.

How's your business going? Bought some of your stuff which my baby is still using.

Long and short, once one party says stop, ensure you stop. Prior consent doesn't give a blanket consent. NO means NO.

So the guy is a self confirmed rapist.

@Sayoberry,

You can try putting them in separate rooms just till they overcome this late sleeping. You could also try heavy suppers, doesn't have to be permanent. Then when they return from school, let them play very well. Running, ball, trampoline, anything for at least an hour.

@ babythug, the 2nd is easier because their school is closer home and I get home earlier. Outside play is key because it helps burn off extra energy. I make sure they run, play ball, box, anything to make them tired.

The routines help them to be consistent. They feel sleepy at around the same time even when we go out. They also know what to expect everyday so no ridiculous requests. They have energy, plenty energy and are very playful. The routines help curb it a bit as they know that weekends is the best time for that.

My helps have been with me for above 4 years so they already know what to do. Food timetable is followed, everyone knows what and when to do stuff. So I'm not thrown off balance.

For the news, I go with the flow. I might ask questions based on what I know was in the news. If I join them early enough, we talk through it. It was earlier on I had them summarize for me and it never worked! They didn't want to write so it made them run from it.

I have learnt a lot of parenting tips from Nland. Always willing to share. God bless you too.

Chai. See energy. @Sayoberry, pele. Try to reduce their afternoon naps and let them play a lot before bedtime. A friend said she found that separating her twins at bedtime did the trick. The more quiet one would fall asleep easily so she only had 1 to deal with. When he didn't have an audience, he would eventually sleep off.

New routine was when the baby was born. I changed jobs, moved house and changed their school.

They wake up 6am. Take their baths, brush, eat breakfast and play. School bus is 7:45am. 10am, my baby has his first nap and 2nd by 2pm. Return from school by 4:00pm. Eat, homework and then lesson. This estate doesn't have that many kids their age so they usually play in the compound till 6:30pm. Baby would have completed his own routine which was eat, bath, brush and then back him whilst singing till he sleeps by 6:30pm.

The older kids eat, bathe, brush and then we watch 7pm news together. By 7:30pm, they go to bed but usually sleep by 8pm as we would gist a little and pray. Weekends are more lax as they do whatever they want until bedtime which is usually earlier.

Í have to add that I have a nanny and someone who cleans up. No tv during the school week except for 7pm news. My older son has now formed the habit of waiting up till my husband gets home regardless of the time. Still watching how that will turn out. No matter how late they slept the day before, their internal clock wakes them up by 6am. No sleeping in for me.

Ok let me start with their old routine. This was for the 1st 2 kids. I have a 7, 6 and 19month old.

They used to wake up by 5. Take their bath, brush, eat breakfast and any school info I didn't catch up with the day before. They join the school bus by 5:45am. When they return by 3pm, they eat and do homework. Lesson ends by 4:30pm. Then they are free to roam the estate with their friends until 6pm.

They have their heavy supper by 6pm, take their baths, brush and then gist/pray/read till 7pm. It's lights out by then and they are usually quite sleepy. Shifted it to 7:30pm when the eldest turned 5.

I only got to see them in the mornings as I returned from 9pm. Weekends I allow them watch tv and they have more play time outside. Early Sat morning sports was a must.

Hello.

Was one of the earlier graduands from the newborn thread. Don't really know most of the people here but I'm open to meeting new online people.

dominique:
As long as the story is coming from DPA, it could be fake for all we know.
Isn't the brother inlaw's wife same thing as her sister? So her sister and her husband assaulted her then another sister carried the story to the fraudulent DPA lawyer Emeka. How come almost all the people that carry their matter to this DPA write in the same style of battered English?

Probably her husband's brother and his wife.

@ Mavinc4u, why did they say you are not a consumer?

nnamdibig:
What is this?
This is blackmail and will always backfire.
Stand your ground and say things the way they are.

Call it what you want but I will blow it out of proportion every single time it happens.

Lalasticlala.

This can be on the front page.

ifyalways:
Not interesting anymore as the interest rate have dropped.

Abacus and FG bonds ti take over

What's abacus?

Grow a thick skin. This would soon blow over. Since they have agreed he moves to his sister's house, don't let what they think bother you. Make sure you change the locks on all doors and ensure your HH deadbolts the door once she is indoors.

If I was the one, from the first day he did such nonsense, I would have called his mum, his sisters, my husband and every family member that night with plenty drama. That he brought cultists to my house by 11pm and they were attacking me. That I can't stay in that house with him anymore. We would have sorted it out that first day.

DedeNkem:
So PHCN doesn't provide their workers with protection kits? What a shame! Do they also steal money for security?

The guy is probably an electrician. No DISCO in Nigeria will allow their staff to go without PPE. They would risk a very heavy sanction.

From the pictures, it looks like late stage metastatic cancer.

Why not go to a hospital for such problems. I'm sure being placed on antidepressants will improve your disposition considerably.

In Igbo, Ochuaja means a person that does sacrifice. It's a very apt name.

SpaceAngel:
There was explosion at the plants office in Lekki 2013, this means the have issue with safety procedure. Government should look at what happened and why they had two similar incidents at two different locations.

https://www.nairaland.com/1470184/three-severely-burnt-lekki-gas

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/three-severely-burnt-lekki-gas-fire/

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/index.php?topic=339463.0

You're right. That's why I stopped patronising them. Very nonchalant about safety issues.

blackfase:
Misleading pictorials to scenario. Real one here. Twas a huge blast and not explosion, no fire incident but many dead.....here >>>>>

https://www.nairaland.com/4290622/breaking-gas-explosion-badagry-many#64214494

This is a different explosion. The one in the picture happened in Magodo.

Is it Second Coming gas station?