Category: Parents Corner
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Is Your Kid Getting Bullied?
How do you recognize if your kid is getting bullied? Is it just something that kids do to other kids and eventually grow out of it? When should a parent or an adult intervene? Sometimes you do have kids who are extremely sensitive and cry at the drop of a hat. So you as a parent…
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I did not write on the wall, I just wrote behind the Couch!
My son loved to scribble on the wall. No matter how much I told him that it is a wrong thing to do he kept doing it. Even when I caught him writing on the wall with a pen in his hand and questioned him, he argued that the writing on the wall was a…
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Daddy! It is Easy, Use the Plastic money
The kids of this generation think that parents have a money machine and getting money is as easy as pulling cash out from an ATM or charging it on a plastic card (that is a credit card for grown ups). We as parents often observe that our children don’t appreciate the ‘value of money‘, so…
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For a Very Special Daddy
Hey, today is Fathers Day! So what if you didn’t buy fancy things to impress him! Material things are not important at all. What is important is to show how much you love him. While we should love and respect him every day, this day particularly gives an opportunity to show our love for him…
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My Daddy Dearest
This Father’s Day I want to honor my father who is probably peeping through the clouds and still watching over me. Five greatest lessons out of a thousand good things that he taught me without even saying a word. The greatest gift that you can give to your kids is unconditional love. Just give your…
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Mother Knows The Best!
All of us as kids at some point of time have told our mothers (when she would correct us for something) – “Mom! you think you know the best?” Well, kids take a long time to realize that parents do know what is best for them – only when they themselves become parents is when…
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Mama, I’m feeling sick
My experience says that kids have an uncanny knack of falling sick when you absolutely don’t want them to. For example when you are getting ready for that much awaited wedding, or for their own birthday party, or for the vacation you had planned after a long time. I find the last one – the vacation…
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What’s The Use of Nooze?
Do we even need to make our kids read the news? All the parents ask themselves this question sooner or later. But after taking one look at the newspaper we realize that it is probably not a very good idea to disturb them as the newspapers these days are full of either failure stories or…
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Daddy ! Can you Please be a Helicopter?
This is a very hillarious but insightful incident that I remember happened 3 years ago. My daughter, 6 years old then, was in a deep discussion with her father about what she wants to be when she is a grown up. My son, 2.5 years old, was playing quietly with his blocks nearby. I did not…
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Eating Sugar? No mama
What do we have teeth for? I asked my daughter and quick came the reply -” For crunching candies? For biting?” Whaaat! I said in complete disbelief. Its high time, I thought, to let her know that other than being a self-defense tool and catering to her sweet tooth, teeth are also very useful for other things. Here’s…
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With or Without You
Being a mother of two it is quite a challenge sometimes to stop the wars between the two siblings. My older daughter once got so upset that she wanted to return her two-year brother to the baby shop where we got him from ;). She said she was “sick and tired” of him touching…
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Hunger Pangs
My eight year old said to me, ” I want to eat something.” I asked, “Something what?” She said, “Something nice.” I said, “What is that?” She said, “I don’t know” and walked away. As mothers we deal with this problem every day. If only we could get to crack the code behind “something”, both mothers and…