Parenting Column

Celebrate Motherswork’s 24th anniversary with great deals on your favourite brands like Stokke.   To celebrate Motherswork’s 24th anniversary, enjoy up to 80 per cent off on participating brands from 14 April to 3 May. Additionally, spend a total of $900 (after VIP and sale discounts) and earn up to...

“The depression can be real. It’s long over now, but the memories are as vivid as I reflect on them.”   2 April is World Autism Awareness Day and in this series of Motherhood Diaries, professional musician and mum of three, Dawn Marie Toh, sheds light about her childhood, love...

This World Health Day, take steps to create sustainable habits such as watering plants with leftover drinking water.   Commemorate World Health Day this April 7 by building healthy and sustainable habits to keep you and the planet healthy. These might include eating healthily and reducing food wastage, being physically...

“Nothing will ever trump the place that biological parents have in their children's hearts, and you must be okay with that. It's the hardest part I have to deal with.”   From the glitzy life of a fashion editor to being a floral designer with her own atelier, Yilian reveals,...

Delve into the best mummy and baby membership in town, and avail of exclusive member perks with Motherswork’s carefully curated partners. Learn how you can earn points to offset your future purchases, get additional discounts, and even receive a goodie bag upon qualification as a Platinum member.   Benefits  ...

My mum and I at Whistler Mountain, Canada after my first ski lesson.   This International Women’s Day, Nicola Wong interviews her mum, Sharon Wong, founder of Motherswork. Sharon shares her thoughts on motherhood, life lessons and her book (Wo)Mum.   About (Wo)Mum Donate to the #JustOneThing campaign and receive...

The holidays are here! Time to let the kids expend some energy and play, play, play!   The first quarter of the year is nearly over and soon the March holidays are upon us! There’s lots to do both indoors and outdoors. We’ve scouted the top picks for this hols...

“Sexuality forms identity - when you are secure in your identity, that builds innate confidence, and confidence is what empowers women to ask for a salary raise, stop doubting themselves, pursue a male-dominated career and ultimately go out to change the world.”   In our second feature of The Motherhood...

Create novel experiences with your partner and fall in love all over again.   Remember once upon a time when your stomach was in knots and your legs turned to jelly every time you gaze into the eyes of your significant other? Falling in love and experiencing that honeymoon period...

Strike a balance between looking after baby and still carving out time for self-love with some of our favourite intimate lifestyle products that are perfect for mums.   The fact is, parenting changes everything and that includes how we as mums feel about our body and sexuality. It’s true that...

Let your child see how you show your love for each other through affectionate gestures like G-rated pecks on the cheek.   As your child grows, they begins to form ideas about romantic relationships from watching adults, you, and through the media. Toddlers and preschoolers might equate being close to...

Celebrate your love on Valentine’s Day with these awesome gifts from Motherswork.   Stocking up on essentials for your children? Shop for your mum’s or wife’s Valentine’s Day gifts at the same time under one roof at Motherswork, whether online or instore. Here are some of our top gifts to...

For some, having a child may require some medical aid, such as IVF procedures.   If you’ve blocked tubes, or endometriosis with small cysts, you may want to consider in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) to conceive a child. Here’s what you need to know about doing the procedure in Singapore.   What...

“There are no handbooks for successful parenting through this chapter, perhaps we will be the ones to write them one day. We are all learning as we go.”   In the first article of The Motherhood Diaries, Tjin Lee opens up about her emotional motherhood journey during these Covid times...

With some assistance from you, perseverance and specific goal setting, your child can master life skills like reading books on her own.   Help your child make this year a meaningful one by setting goals, to accomplish and build skills that she can use throughout her life. Follow this step...

Making resolutions as a couple allows both of you to reflect on the past and set up goals for the future.   2022 is here and if you’ve yet to plan for the year, now it’s as good a time as ever. New Year resolutions have always had a bad...

One essential you’ll need for meals is the BIBS Overall Bib, which fastens down the front so your baby’s hair and clothes don’t get caught.   As we welcome 2022, here are the latest must-haves from Motherswork. Some of these include Milton's sterilising and cleaning essentials. Additionally, make meal prep...

Whether it’s indoors or outdoors, there’s lots to see and do with the kids.   Singapore is never short of family-friendly activities to engage and entertain. With new facilities opening up ever so often, there’s plenty of things to do with the kids. Whether it’s indoors for a virtual reality...

As we round up 2021, let’s be thankful for all that we have and look forward to the upcoming year ahead.   In the blink of an eye, we’re in the final stretch of 2021 and welcoming the next, and hopefully less disruptive 2022. It’s that time of the year...

Decorate your house for the Christmas season with some of our favourite ideas - and rope in the kids to help.   Dress up your home for the holiday season with some of our favourite festive decorating ideas, with items all found in store at Motherswork.   Glitz & Glam...