15 Parenting Hacks for a Happy Life

While everyone tells you what not to do, I will tell you what to do

Nuha Khaled
12 min readNov 15, 2020

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Photo by Jose Ibarra on Unsplash

When I was young, I always wanted to be a mother. I thought I love kids, I love spending long hours with them, I usually was that person who could deal with other people’s children perfectly, when I had none.

Later on, I became a mother, I realized that parenting is different than just communicating with any other kid around. Being responsible for raising a little soul takes a lot of energy, focus, and patience as well. I hear other mothers saying that they don’t really love kids that’s why it is hard, but let me tell you this, I love kids, but it is still hard.

No matter how lucky you are, you will pass by phases where you don’t know what to do or how to react to what kids do. As their actions, is not once or twice in life, no they are 100 per day. So if you could do it right once, or twice, you may still fail to do it in the way you want.

The problem is not just not having the patience to do what you believe in, the problem is that you will start to question if what you believe in will ever work.

Parents are always judged by others, no matter what they do. People might seem trying to help, but instead, they get you more distracted and stressed. Usually, when you do…

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Nuha Khaled
Nuha Khaled

Written by Nuha Khaled

Freelance Software Engineer | Unschooling Mother of 3 | Dedicated Muslimah

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