If your preschooler is at that wriggly wiggly, thousand-questions-a-minute stage, then you know its time to get out of the house and playground, and explore the world beyond. And this doesn’t just mean visits to those “compulsory” places like the zoo, natural history museum, planetarium, or even the railway museum. Your child, and you too,… [ Continue Reading ]
Beat boredom: Take along plenty of games and toys which your child can play with in a bus, train, car or plane. Magnetic boards that double up as blackboards are great. So are small 4 to 6-piece puzzles. Crayons and felt-pens are great for do-anywhere, anytime activities. Remember to take along plenty of used-on-one-side-only paper… [ Continue Reading ]
It’s that time of the year again. Hot, hot and hotter. And humid to boot. Two months of summer holidays stretch endlessly with nothing more exciting than sitting indoors with holiday homework, the same old puzzles that have been done to death a gazillion times and blocks that really ought to be put away forever…. [ Continue Reading ]
For about a million moms ‘out there’, the most dreaded time of the day is mealtime. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, the litany starts: Mom: Come and eat. Kid: What’s made? Mom: Rice, dal, beans, salad, curd. Kid: Yuck. I’m not hungry. Mom: What? You just said you were starving. Kid: If it’s dal and beans,… [ Continue Reading ]
‘Guests are no longer welcome.’ That’s a sign that sooner or later will go up at the entrance to our home. Why? Because our home has a tendency to resemble a battlefield at the best of times, and a litterbin at the worst. I might just add a small sign just below that, explaining in… [ Continue Reading ]
Love is a strange thing. I thought it was just a saying when parents said they loved their children to death. But, something in the news the other day reminded me that love really can drive some people to death. A newspaper reported that a class XII student shot herself to death with her father’s… [ Continue Reading ]
It’s that time of the year again — when thousands of children in Indian cities go through that mind-numbing sieving process called “school admissions”. Parents get nightmares just thinking about it. The thought of being tested, interviewed and judged, so many years after escaping that ordeal in school, is enough to drive most moms and… [ Continue Reading ]
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