Category: Family

  • Happinetz Ensures Internet Safety For Kids

    Happinetz Ensures Internet Safety For Kids

    Increased screen time in kids has become the reason for mothers’ sleepless nights. During and after the pandemic the kids are using online learning resources more than before. It has also pulled our kids into a whirlpool of addictive virtual reality. While family time and reading time take a back seat, internet safety for kids has slithered into the minds of mothers, occupying their thoughts. There is a dilemma of not being able to monitor kids enough and at the same time, not wanting to be a prying mother when it comes to internet usage and screen time. That’s when Happinetz became the 2 a.m. friend to the mother who can share this humongous burden of guilt and helplessness.

    Internet Safety For Kids

    No two kids are the same. While my sons love to play Roblox, my daughter likes K dramas. On one hand, the thought of whether they meet strangers through interactive games gnawed in my mind. On the other hand, the worry about whether the series my daughter was watching was age-appropriate was overwhelming me. I wanted to have a check on all these without pressuring them or invading their privacy. So, I didn’t want to go about blocking all browsers, on all devices. I wanted some space where I could monitor them in one place.

    While I was thinking about a solution for my never-ending worry, I got hold of  Happinetz, which provides safe internet for kids and helps with screen time management. It was a huge relief. 

    Stress-free monitoring

    Being a Happinetz parent, I feel empowered to get a solution that’s easy. The installation process is very simple. All you have to do is connect your Happinetz Box to your home router, download the app on your phone, and add the devices that your children use. You can set screen time schedules as per your child’s age and need.  

    Additionally, the content the children can now access is age-appropriate and secure. After I installed Happinetz my kids could open only age-appropriate games on any device. By default, they are not able to open certain inappropriate apps that they tried earlier. I can also check the Insights of their internet usage at my convenience without the conflict of telling kids what to use and what not to.

    As my kids have ADHD, controlling their screen time was much needed because as their doctor told me, screen time and hyperactivity are directly related. The first step of the ADHD therapy, their doctor said, is to keep a check on their screen time. This is because the fast movement on the screen would force their brain to run faster. With Happinetz, I am able to enforce screen time rules with ease and without any arguments.

    Easy Management

    With Happinetz, the advantage is that I don’t have to log into each device to check what they are accessing. I am able to check Insights for up to 10 devices in the household through one parent app. With this, Happinetz has created a new benchmark for internet safety for kids.

    What touched me is that it is designed from a parent’s point of view. They know what we need and provide it in a single place. There’s only one app installed on the parent phone and nothing is installed on your child’s devices. They just need to be connected to Happinetz WiFi.

    Internet safety for kids across devices

    As I said before, my kids have different likes and dislikes. With Happinetz I could ensure internet safety for kids with ease as it is applicable to all browsers, devices, and even TV. This was the most promising surprise for me because, with the onset of smart TV, it’s difficult for parents to check what children are watching. But with Happinetz, I can be stress-free about what they’re watching.

    No more unsafe content 

    Every day, new social media platforms, unsecured websites, and apps are sprouting. I am not even aware of many of them but my kids are so curious that they want to see and feel everything new. However, so much of this content can be age-inappropriate and unsafe.  With Happiness, I don’t need to worry at all. More than 110 million websites and apps are being monitored and tracked as per the system and more than 22 million adult and unsecured websites and apps are blocked by default by Happinetz.

    Multi-level filtering technology

    We cannot take our kids out of the world of the internet in the name of internet safety for kids. They need to explore, do assignments, and independently handle their tasks with the help of the Internet. It is unfair to say that using the internet is bad for our kids. With Happinetz we can let our kids explore the world of knowledge without even accidentally stumbling upon inappropriate content. With multi-level filtering technology, Happinetz has ensured that all popular and well-known methods of bypassing the system have been taken care of.

    Privacy

    While using any app, infringement of privacy has been my highest point of worry. But  Happinetz doesn’t collect any personal data on kid’s devices. This is the most important highlight if you ask me.

    No judgement

    While the thin line between gentle parenting and unmonitored parenting has started to blur and social media talks about excessive parental control,  I was worried about being judged. But with Happinetz I feel supported in my journey to provide internet safety to my kids.

    Happinetz

    Ease of use

    The only thing to get internet safety for kids is to install Happinetz and download the app. Once the app is set in your phone, the rest is sorted.

    With exhaustive filtering, a customizable internet schedule, and insights that enable the parent to check which websites their child used and for how long, Happinetz has transformed into my go-to friend and therapist who has the solution for the root cause of the problem.

    I have been trying to enforce a routine to keep my kids’ hyperactive brains on track but to make them turn off the devices after coming back from school was a stress inducer for me. But since the devices have turned off as per the schedule now, this chaos is also sorted. Now that I can schedule their screen time they have ample time to play with each other, read books, and connect with nature.

    A small gift from me

    Now that you know the ins and outs of the benefits of Happinetz, I’m sure you can’t wait to ensure internet safety for kids. While you are at it, you get a special discount by clicking here. Get your Happinetz Box and say bye-bye to your worries because they have got you covered with their Safe Internet for Kids

  • Attain Emotional Wellness Through Relationship Goals

    Relationships/marriages are the eternal bonds made in heaven! I have never heard a stinkier BS. Relationships happen and sustain with an immense human effort which accompanies perseverance, adjustment, understanding, and lots of love and care. As easy as it sounds, it is equally tough to sustain a connection that begins with dopamine, develops with adrenaline, and concludes with responsibilities and economic, occupational as well as social commitments. Hence a few relationship goals could help you attain emotional wellness.
    The pandemic has seen unforeseen variations in the relationship graphs of many families – positively and vice-versa. Nonetheless, a healthy relationship and sometimes lack of it is much needed for emotional wellness. Let’s address a few points that we could take care of to rekindle the lost love or give wind to the one that’s being ignited.

    Relationship Goals

    Emotional wellness and relationship goals

    Communication

    An open and unconditionally occupiable conversation is inevitable in any relationship. It could be an impromptu vacation or a drive or even a coffee date on your balcony. But the topic should be the both of you. Would you keep in mind to reserve your mutual belittling session for another time? (I’m sure there would be many of these sorts 😀)

    Have a couple journal

    A couple journal is a short notebook or a diary wherein you enter the best moments or the toughest challenges. You can read this out for each other weekly or monthly. Always make sure to give each other a little surprise in the journal. It could be as small as a rose petal or something grand.

    Relationship goals - Couple journal

    The massage time

    Give each other a massage. This need not be a coital experience. You can simply give each other a head massage or hand and foot massage. You can incorporate this during your communication sessions.

    Relationship goals - Couple Massage

    No gadgets or together gadgets

    There should be a daily ‘no-gadgets’ session in your relationship. Read books together or water plants together. You could do any hobby that both likes or take turns for each other’s passion. Also, if nothing, have your gadget together for a brief OTT session. You can also bring youe interests together like reading books near your partner while he watches his show or vice versa.

    Practice Respect

    You might not be living the same life as your parents. Respect your partner’s choice and understand that you are living in a different social setup than your parents. Never compare!

    While these are a few tips to rekindle the love and passion in your relationship, there are some relationships that are not made or mismanaged in heaven – The toxic ones. No amount of rekindling works in such traumatic situations. Take help when needed, and if no help can help, step out! Because emotional wellness is the primary goal of a relationship. If it is emotionally draining instead you know better because relationship goals don’t mean that you have to cling on to something. It also means your goal is to attain emotional wellness.

  • Traveling With Kids During COVID Times

    Covid time have been scary for adults and kids alike. syteeping our with kids is a nightmare. More so, if your child is a naughty little brat. I can understand your. I have been there. I have three little hellions who were ready to burst out at a drop of a hat. And so we were travelling with kids during the COVID times. Not 1, not 2 but 3. Can you beat that.

    Travelling with kids during covid

    The planning nightmare:

    If you have been following my posts, you might know that I don’t plan my trips in advance. But this time, I had to. Ww researched on a plethora of options and finally ruled out the option for a stay over. We started early in the morning and reached the property a little late for breakfast. So, what are the precautions that we took?

    Travelling with kids during COVID:

    We have taken the following precautions while we set out.

    Travelling with kids during covid Tip 1

    Keep spare masks ready

    Kids play around and tend to drop the masks everywhere they run around. It is extremely risky to keep it back. This applies during the non-COVID times as well. Always keep a spare mask.

    Carry sanitizing wipes

    Kids always touch everywhere. It might not be feasible to make then handwash every now and then. we cannot make them sanitize their hands without cleaning them. So we are left with one option – Wipes. Keep sanitizing wipes handy while travelling with kids during COVID or otherwise as well.

    Keep sanitizer spray ready

    The place where we went had swings, slides, and what not. Kids were uncontrollable after months of jailing them. But how can we trust these swings? Would other kids sit there? I was getting anxious.The sanitizer sprays came to my rescue. I kept on spraying all over the places where my kids might play and touch.

    Book private properties

    The one I booked was not a private property. Rhis property named Vagamon Heights had separate cottages that were way apart from each other. Hence idea of social distancing was applicable.

    Carry trash bags

    This is applicable in all times. You must make your child accountable of keeping their country clean and preventing litter. Let them inculcate the habit of carrying a trash bag and take accountability of their trash.

    Travelling with kids during covid Tips 2

    Avoid Long Trips

    Try to keep the trips short so that you don’t have to have many pitstops. Lets exposure the better.

    Keep first aid kit with medicines handy

    This tip is applicable in all time but especialy during COVID, try to avoid hospital visits in unknown places. Hence keep your first aid kits and medicines ready. I even had a nebuliser, just in case.

    Carry toiletries, towels etc

    You should avoid using the towels of the properties you stay in. This is advisable in all time. I used to even carry bed spreads because of this fear. Sounds crazy, I know but this makes me rest assured. Why lose sleep over silly things?

    Educate your child

    Travelling with kids during covid My kids

    This is the most important. You child is way matured than you think. You child need to take an effort educate your child abour sanitizing, wearing mask the right way, not eating out and many more simple facts which they could take care of themselves.

    So, set off with your littles ones for a safe, rejuvenating and exciting travel experience.

  • Lockdown and housewives

    Housewives is an outdated term. More fancy word would be homemaker though the life they live is just the same. It might have improved over the period of time due to the upsurge of electronic equipments and facilities. But does their life change? I have been mulling over this topic for sometime when my daughter told me that she wanted to be a homemaker and somehow I was not happy. There is no other better time for this post as it is lockdown and everyone is having a chance to have a first hand witnessing experience of a homemaker’s life. Atleast 60% of the judgemental world, which include men and working women, would understand that “simply sitting at home” is not easy, that lack of social life is frustrating, that living a life of a proverbial frog in the well is humiliating, being called jobless is unfair and holding it together amidst judgement is disheartening.

    Coincidentally, I watched two women centric movies back to back. They are more homemaker centric. Panga and Thappad. This is not a review of the movies but they need to be referred here so as to put forward the point.

    Thappad and Panga. photo courtesy, imdb.com

    The life portrayed and the message conveyed by the movies are similiar like the actresses who have stark similarity in their looks. While Panga sketches the life of an ex Kabaddi player who left her passion to take care of her son, Thappad tells the life of a woman who left her passion for dance to take care of her husband and mother in law. While Kangana’s character did all household jobs and managed her railway job, she is blessed with a husband who takes care of her and understands her. But Thappad is a whole different tale on that front. I might be the only woman who opposes the message conveyed by the movie.

    While I second the argument that slapping is not done in a relationship, a slap being counted as a reason for divorce is immature. Nonetheless the screenplay justifies the protagonist’s actions by developing the circumstances where her husband is proved at fault. I wonder why the movie was promoted as a mere message against slap. From my perspective, Taapsee’s character is unjustifiable from the moment she decided to be a mere homemaker just because her mother told her to be. In the current scenario keeping one’s desires aside and brushing it under the carpet is not so done. If one should take home anything from the movie, that’s the message that never compromise on your passion.

    While Kangana’s character in Panga has all the right reasons to choose her family over her passion and later go back to her life. Taapsee’s character is shrunk down to a name sake feminist, for the sake of being tagged a feministic movie. All the male characters expect Taapsee’s father are chauvinists in the movie.

    Now, coming to our real life homemakers. The message one should take home is not that a single slap should end up in divorce. Communicate well with your spouse but don’t be silent to domestic, emotional and psychological abuse. Realise them and work on them.

    Girls, there is nothing wrong to be a homemaker. Being a homemaker doesn’t make you jobless. Find your passion. Pursue it. Use this lockdown to prove that you’re not “simply sitting at home”. Let this be a blessing in disguise. Let’s see more passionate home makers after the lockdown. Identify your passion and develop it.

  • Alphabets

    My first attempt of #BlogchatterA-ZChallenge starts today.

    Since the theme is Family, everything that I write about would be invariably related to my family. For a family life to be happy and peaceful , it is important to know the alphabets. Alphabets of understanding, love, and trust.

    Speaking of these three the faces of two lovers or spouses come to our mind. Why is it so? Why is understanding and trust reserved to lovers. Why not parents, grandparents or other relatives in our family.

    Being someone who has witnessed two families fall apart in the name of mere ego and misunderstanding and the same history repeat in the next generation, I ought to write about the alphabets of understanding between the members of the family. This need not be immediate family members. It could be the extended family as well.

    We have seen relations fall apart and the reasons we hear are as silly as ” She didn’t attend my birthday party”, ” He wished her child, not mine”, “She didn’t pick up my child first”, ” he didn’t message me personally” so on and so forth. If we read it as a blog post we will understand that it is as silly as it sounds but if we retrospect, we will realise that at some point of time, we all have been a part of this ego trip atleast once in our life.

    Why is it imperative that the other person should be the first one to take the first step to reconciliation? Why don’t we take that first step and be the bigger person. You can nourish your ego thinking that you are better since you decided to let go.

    If you have been in a tough situation with any of your family members and have reconciled with them, you know how liberating it is to hug them and squeeze out the remaining grudges if any and laugh out at the folly of doing “you did, I did” drama.

    But make sure you do it with the folks who respect what you do to keep the relation going. Some exceptions would be there, who come under the toxic personalities who are the eternal too good to be true victims. Stay away from them. The less importance you give them the better because no relation is above your self esteem.

    You have the discretion to distinguish both. Use it and stay happy.