As a parent, I have come to understand that it is impossible to teach your young children everything you know. So I live by the principle that I will let go of all the outliers and focus only on the fundamentals for now. If we nail the fundamentals of life right, I’m sure, our children […]
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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