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Beating the Holiday Blues
Categories: Parenting Perspectives Tags: Childrenfunholidays Holidays are fun – fights are fought, memories are made and good food is devoured. Holidays involve breaking the rules and being lazy. It...
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Worrywart
Categories: Parenting Perspectives Tags: motherhoodparentingpreschoolers Thump! Thud! My heart skips a beat. I wait for the yell, the scream, the agony, tears that will follow. In that split second,...
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The No-No Toy List
Categories: Parenting Perspectives Toddler Tags: giftsselecting toystoytoys The number one reason why I prefer to hit the shops without my daughter – I don’t want to be dragged through the toy aisle,...
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Deepavali Scrooge
Categories: Parenting Perspectives Tags: celebrationsDeepavalidiwalidiwali dhamalDiwali SpecialholidaysScrooge Around the world, the last couple of months of the calendar year bring in festivities. It...
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New Year Promises
Categories: Perspectives 2014 is almost over – Are you panicking yet? Or are you looking forward to 2015? Do you plan to dance the night away? Or will be having a date with your pillow as the clock...
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Chennai Book Fair
Categories: Children's Books Event Review Tags: book reviewbooksChennaiChennai Book FairChildren's bookchildren's book reviewChildren's bookstulika books Chennai has been making its rounds on the list...
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Lessons for my Daughter
Categories: Parenting Perspectives Tags: daughterLessonslifemomparentingteenager I have 397 weeks, a few days and hours before I become the mother of a teenager. I have a countdown ticker reminding me...
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Chennai Puthaga Sangamam
April 23rd is celebrated as World Book and Copyright Day by UNESCO to celebrate books and their power to change lives. Chennai Puthaga Sangamam is organised to celebrate the day. Book shopping is my...
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Book Review: Messy Penny by Roopa Weber
As a parent, I always seek books and toys that send the right message to my daughter. I want books and toys to guide her along as she discovers herself, the world and her role in it. I want her to...
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#7BillionDreams
June 5th is World Environment Day (WED) and it is a great time to remind children about the burning need of the hour. Sadly, I find these talks rather depressing. Oil spills, dead plants, burning...
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Raising a Little Traveller
Amma, for my 7th birthday can we go to Holland and see the tulips? The ones that spread out like a magic carpet? Red and pink and yellow and blue? My 5 year old daughter’s questions made my heart...
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Talking About Tragedies
As my daughter grows up, the more I feel protective about her. The world around her seems to be morphing into this big bad wolf ready to pounce on her. To eat up her freedom, gobble her free spirit...
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A Mother’s Turmoil – Schools under Threat
It was a dawn like every other. The forecast called for a cold day and I had planned to send her favourite mushroom soup in a thermos to warm her up during lunch. I had put out the clothes the...
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Play Alone Time for Kids
I love my daughter and have spent quite a lot of time “playing” with her. We have cooked pretend and real meals, crafted ships and cards, coloured bunnies and unicorns and more. I love spending time...
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Are You An Anxious Parent?
We parents are a special breed. We pile guilt and stress upon ourselves. We melt at a gummy grin, cry over a fallen tooth and stay awake to watch our offsprings sleep. We cherish these moments. We...
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Amazing Way To Use Strawberry! Make This Yum Strawberry Syrup!
When life gives you strawberries, you make this strawberry syrup! Spring is a time for celebrations and memories- for family traditions and joy. One of our family traditions is to visit a local farm...
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Finding The Motivation To Fitness
I am not a gym-freak or a health nut. I exercise because I don’t have an alternative. I also don’t believe that I should deprive the foodie in me. I have made fitness a part of my life the past couple...
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Raising Empathetic and Kind Children
Hardly a day goes by without me groaning in despair about the world around me. Intolerance, hatred and violence seem to take over the inherent goodness of people. It is a sad place to be and a hard...
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What is in your Cool Mom Jar?
Every day is a battle and half or at least that is how it seems. I am usually a bundle of nerves and emotions and stress a couple of times a week. Somehow on the days when I feel the worst are the days...
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Book Review: Ravana Refuses to Die
Ravana Refuses to Die by Rustom Dadachanji, illustrated by Priya Kuriyan and published by Duckbill Books is a collection of short stories targeted at young readers aged 10-12. We often talk about a...
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