Parenting & Relationships

Power of Healing Yourself: How To Transform Your Life

I was watching an interview by Dr. Anita Philips on the Oprah show. I love the Oprah show. Maya Angelou and Oprah were my earliest role models for women empowerment. The guest of the day, Dr. Anita, a scientist who successfully stood at the intersection of science and religion explained a lot of scientific things […]

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Relationships are hard

Why Relationships Are Hard – What Needs To Change Right Now?

Last month, I was in charge of a kids’ dance routine. Two spocs (me and X for our team) had to coordinate with the executive board. To cut the long story short : X had previously been rude to the board. At the general meeting, which X evaded cleverly, the disgruntled board members publicly bullied

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Life skills for kids

List of Life Skills For Kids That Will Make Them Exceptional

Life skill training is absolutely necessary to lay down great fundamental values in life. They are popular in different forms today – blogs, workshops, podcasts disseminating information on how you can be what you want to be. But when it comes to children, we are distracted by a lot of unnecessary hype that we miss

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Meaningful Social Connections And Happiness

Usually on Diwali we go to our hometown to celebrate the occasion with our extended family. But this time we couldn’t go. Chennai is a beautiful city and we do have a great social circle here. But being away from family for important festivals just did not feel right. Predictably I was not exceptionally thrilled

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Good Communication is the key to strong relationships

Good Communication – Foundation of Strong Relationships

Good communication is supposed to be a basic skill but is a skill that requires good amount of patience and practice. It should be one of the foundational pillars on which relationships should be built upon. There is a general lack of interest in today’s fast paced life. Research has shown that our attention spans

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Parent Tips – How To Manage Online Class For KG

Online classes for my kids started a week ago. It is already making me wonder how I would get through this academic year. My elder one, Han is in primary school. He can manage things on his own with a little support from me. While my younger one, Kay attended lower KG last year sporadically

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How To Make Learning Fun And Interesting For Kids

Periodic assessment is going on for my elder one now. Everyday is a rush of household chores, teaching , learning and play. Play is an integral part learning. Research has established that it an important factor for parent-child bonding too. So don’t discourage kids from playing even during exam times. Instead set a time limit.

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Wedding Day Ideas For A Unique And Exciting Celebration

Last week my little sister got married. With the ongoing pandemic, we did not want to take any unnecessary risk. The wedding was a low key one, with just the close family members. Even then we had to cut back on so many relatives who lived in other places. Their transportation and accommodation posed added

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Couple Goals: Beautiful ideas to make your love soar

Couple goals are a proven method to build a good rapport with your partner. Different couples choose different goals for their relationship and all relationship goals need not be the same. You can analyse your common ground with your partner and start from something simple. In other words, couple goals are romantic relationship goals. I’m

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Online Classes For Kids:How to Support As Parents

When my seven year old son started online classes little did I know the new reality I was embarking on. Full time online classes for kids were new but seemed manageable. The school contacted me with his new class time table and it looked pretty straight forward. Two hours – one in the morning at

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