It was just last week I was running late for work and driving down in the peak hour traffic. I had just hit the main road, suddenly I received a phone call from work, if I can pick up a client from the airport. I was really angry, it was already so hot and the peak hour traffic and another 10 km drive. Somehow I reached the airport and started looking for the car park. Another 10 minutes wasted looking for the parking. As soon as I opened the door I could hear the planes landing and taking off and than I heard some little kid screaming “Alloplane”. I turned around and it was my own one and half year old in the child seat whom I was supposed to drop at the day care center. I had completely forgotten about his existence in the car in the whole sequence. If he hadn’t said a word in that given moment, I would have left him in the car with windows closed in 35 degree heat with maximum of 48 degree on that day. Children left locked in cars can suffer from strangulation or choking from seat belt. In hot weather it can cause heatstroke, dehydration or hyper-thermia to your kids. On a typical summer day the temperature inside a car can rise by 30-40 degrees in just 15 minutes and leaving the window open does does not help much. You can call it a miracle or my stupidity but how often does it happen and how many kids die or become really sick and become statistics. Every year all around the world hundreds of kids die with this same scenario. As parents we don’t want to become part of these statistics and be haunted for rest of our lives. Here are some tips to make sure you don’t forget your precious one in the car:


Always put something very important you’ll need for rest of the day near the child on the back seat like cell phone, handbag, briefcase, office files etc.

Keep a large teddy bear in the child’s car seat when it’s not occupied. When the child is placed in the seat, put the teddy bear on the front passenger seat. It’s a visual reminder that anytime the teddy bear is in the passenger seat, the child is in the back.

Make arrangements with your day care provider to call you if your child does not show up when expected.

Tie or attach a bright colour tag or ribbon with your keys to remind you to check your back seat every time you get out of the car.

Your grown child is now going to be a teenager, the bridge to adulthood.

This is the age when they start asking, fighting and arguing for more freedom, greater independence and test the limits of acceptable behaviour. They are looking for individuality, their own special acceptance in the society.Because of the raging hormonal changes inside their body, your child becomes moody, and their body, emotions and actions are affected. Their clothing, appearance, behaviour and thinking, all are changing very fast and more often than ever. This is also the most vulnerable age when they are getting more confused and more often they have to choose between the parents and the friends.

This is the time your child needs more support from you, more privacy and more time for themselves, so they can adjust to the occurring changes.

The school years are full of mental challenges for your kid. At this stage, their mind is bombarded by all kinds of information and knowledge. School, homework, play and physical activities are all parts of the world that influences your child’s further intellectual development.

At this age they are also influenced by the media around them – TV, radio, the internet, books and other reading materials.

If your child is not properly controlled at this stage of growing up, your parental influence on them can be diminished as the child is more influenced by his peers and friends. They also learns social skills and the different ways to interact with different kinds of people.

This is also the stage where your child’s interests can begin to show, and if they are gifted for any particular sport or studies, it becomes apparent.

During these years, your baby will turn into a toddler, a very young child.

She will gain enough control of her growing body to walk, climb, jump, run, and manipulate objects. She will learn to use language to communicate, ask questions, tell you what she needs, and tell stories.

Her learning style is becoming more evident. Her personality will be forming, as the genes she inherited interacts with the quality of her environment and your parenting.

Your toddler wants to be independent, but at the same time is scared of it all. She wants your help but at the same time, she doesn’t want it. This shift in emotions can give rise to tantrums. But this will ease as your child learns to talk better to express her feelings.

This is the stage where your kid grows so fast and change so much.

Dictionaries describe the word “SMART” as prompt in action, intelligent, clever, witty, sharp, dashing, elegant and even cunning and shrewd.

Smart is not just the intelligence or doing great in school but being Intelligent and clever in every way of life, in the school, outside the school and even in our adult life.

How do we achieve this without making our kids life stressful. We as parents have to think and act smart to make our kids smart. This website is created for all those young parents who may need help on many of the topics that keep arising everyday. For the rest who think they know everything, please help us (the young parents), with your inputs. Our aim as the developers of this site is to provide all the possible information at one point.