Category: Parenting & Random Musings

Category: Parenting & Random Musings

Does questioning necessarily mean disobedience?

It’s important to allow children to question the norms no matter how controversial it may sound; Just because we never questioned our parents and took it up as stated doesn’t mean our kids need to follow suit. Only in an environment where children feel safe, secure and get unconditional love,

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Gender sensitization begins at home…

Today morning while we were busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast alongside packing lunch for kids, my husband suddenly remembered something my nephew said to him a few days ago. It seems he noticed my husband working in the kitchen and remarked, “I have never seen my dad doing stuff

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Winning the Ultimate Blog Challenge

I’m so ecstatic today!  I was one of the three winners in “The Ultimate Blog Challenge” hosted by @ https://confusedparent.in/ which is one among the top ten parenting sites. Though writing for me has always been about expressing my thoughts, winning sure does feel great. And when it’s your first

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You need a break too…

I rush home after work as I was late today than usual. I drop my bags and head straight to the kitchen to make a snack for my kids and a cup of tea for myself. As I put multiple utensils on the stove and get busy stirring this and

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The gift of having a day with no plans…

There was a time when I remember being too busy, always, all the time. At any given time, there would be a hundred things running through my mind, about the immediate things to be done, things to be done later in the day, things to be taken care the next

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My first batch of class 10…

“A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops”– Henry Adams       I realized today how true this statement was…. Today being the last working day for my class 10 students, lots of things were on the cards.  First was a temple visit to get the

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My first All women trip

In one of my previous posts –  https://kalpavrikshafarm.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/breaking-the-invisible-barrier-2/, I had mentioned about this trip. This is in continuation with that, a part II series of that post, if I may say. Though I had decided to join the all women trip with my friends and colleagues, the weeks leading up

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Breaking the invisible barrier

I had a much shielded childhood. No… I wasn’t pampered. Just that even simple tasks like going to a bank, post office or doing anything outside the four walls of my house was always taken care of by my mom, dad or anyone other than me.  And no, my family

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Andaman – The Untouched Paradise

Come April and we start wondering about how are we going to spend our precious summer holidays. And by we, I mean I, because quite frankly I am the only crazy one who starts the feverish search for a perfect destination and that too only in the last moment. Being

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Lazy Parents Make Happy Kids And Happy Families!

Let me start by saying that I am guilty of being the exact opposite of what I am writing about, (at least for the first few years) and that’s what makes me the best person to talk about this. First and foremost, I want to confess that I was a

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