Finding your child’s passion

One of the important responsibilities of a parent is to help the kids identify their passion and to support our best to bring that dream to reality. Some people are never happy with their jobs and are never satisfied with their career achievements because they are not doing it with all their heart and they…

Five tools that I use to teach my toddler at home

Keeping a toddler busy at home is no easy task. They need constant engagement in some activity and if you can teach them using a variety of interesting tools, you can see it for yourself that they absorb everything you tell them, like a sponge. I teach my 2.4 year old toddler using different objects…

What does your kid really want?

The first and foremost duty of a parent is to let the child understand and grasp the world by itself rather than forcing it to learn things that you already know. So what if your child knows the alphabets? Do you think this is your child’s greatest talent? The biggest mistake we do is, we…

Let them make messes!

I love it when my daughter is busy making a mess. Yes, you read it right! The knowledge they gain when they are allowed to make a mess is immense. She learnt to name the fruits and veggies by exploring the fridge and while grocery shopping. I don’t sit and teach with flash card and…

How to keep your toddler occupied while you are busy

Children just love to copy everything we do and most of us know this. But what many don’t know is, how to use this as an advantage and help them grow and learn things, while we are busy. I make my daughter do whatever I do. Of course, only age appropriate activites. I let her…

Positive Parenting Lessons

I realized something beautiful as a parent a few days ago. My daughter, Ishaana, is now in this stage, where she is so curious about pens and papers. She can recognize alphabets, numbers 1-20 and few shapes. She started scribbling on papers and now eventually she has started writing on walls and other surfaces. I…

“So you are just a full-time mom?”

“So you are just a full-time mom?” How do you guys feel when you hear this question? I get this question often from various kinds of people in varied tones. I am sick of being constantly judged for staying at home with my daughter. “Don’t you want to do more than just being a stay…

Babies and emotions

I slowly opened my eyes and reached for my phone to check the time. It showed 11:25 am. I still felt very tired. I could feel that my neck pain has grown worse than the previous day. My shoulder was hurting too. Why wouldn’t it? I had walked for almost 40 minutes carrying my toddler…

Do you listen to your kids?

This is a very important topic I wanted to discuss for a long time. This is also a very sensitive topic and I request the parents to self-analyze to make sure that you are not making the mistake of not giving freedom to your kids to voice their opinions and suggestions. Because, most parents don’t…

Parenting : Illustrated with crappy pictures – Book Review

I had borrowed this book, Parenting : Illustrated with crappy pictures by Amber Dusick from our local library few weeks ago and I finally read it yesterday. This is a very hilarious parenting book and I could relate to most of the situations illustrated. This book immediately caught my attention as I entered the parenting…