“Why am I thinking about it? I cannot do this!” Reena said resignedly as she fell in a heap on the bean bag, the only clutter-free furniture in the room. Focussed and deliberate, Rahul egged on. There could be a way he could get his point through. Her wish was final but he yearned to… Read More The Choice #FridayFotoFiction
Making simple decisions like what to wear to work, what to prepare for dinner or which movie to relax with over the weekend, repeatedly, can be exhausting and dizzying, can’t it? Wouldn’t life be much easier if all this was done magically and everyone was happy in the end? Sigh! Life is a little more… Read More Should our kids know the truth? #Parenting
Harried mothers clenching their fists. Long serpentine queues. Designated counters. Questions and answers. Confusions and confirmations. Anxiety all around. Kids dragged and/or saved from being crushed. No, this isn’t the picture of any fish market or any teeming railway platform; however admittedly, it is reminiscent of the two to a great extent. The first time… Read More Why mothers are called the first teachers
“These belonged to me, but you can have them now.” said A Jr and generously offered Angel his big cd folder which had every single cd he had owned (or I gifted him?) ever since he was a year old. Nursery rhymes, prayers, stories, alphabets, numbers and what have you, it was all there! It… Read More Make your kids enjoy learning with #AppyStore
A Jr’s vacations will start in a couple of days and since we aren’t going anywhere before picking up his results this month-end, I and he were exploring options on what he/we can do this time round that will both be fun and (although slightly boring) useful. Swimming classes have long been on the agenda… Read More To blog or not to blog
Handing A Jr an encyclopaedia that was way too heavy for him to even hold in his tiny hands and taking him to the Nehru Planetorium, Worli when he was just about 3 years old was entirely my doing. While a reluctant A kept elbowing me unremittingly for burdening him with too much information, I… Read More To Space and back! #ColgateMagicalStories
The other day I was writing an article and, as is my habit, was referring to the Dictionary app on my phone to be doubly sure about the context and usage of difficult and/or confusing words in it. A Jr was observing me closely and after waiting for an impressive five minutes his barrage of… Read More Finding a new word