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26 Aug 2017
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Eclipsed
24 Aug 2017 -
The Story Telling Game
21 Aug 2017 -
The Moment Of Truth
08 Aug 2017 -
Censorship Is A Double-Edged Sword
06 Aug 2017Recently, social media has been flooded with angry posts about some TV show called Pehredaar Piya Ki. Seeing so many people agitated about it, piqued my curiosity, and I read a little about it. To me, it seems somewhat silly, but again, I have not actually watched it, so I am going to refrain from judging it any further.
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The Happy Ending
01 Aug 2017 -
A Review Of Mambi And The Forest Fire
24 Jul 2017 -
Bonding With Kids Through Games
20 Jul 2017 -
The Bamboozling Shenanigans Of Bum Biter
15 Jul 2017 -
Have You Met Caillou
12 Jul 2017 -
Phobias & Fortitude
05 Jul 2017 -
When The Building Opened Its Doors
05 Jul 2017 -
The Stalker
28 Jun 2017 -
When The Clock Struck 18
26 Jun 2017Anu was agitated. She had barely slept last night. Not even the sound of the waves soothed her today. Did she have her contacts on backwards? It certainly felt like it. No agitated was a mild word. What she felt was furious. What a sham her 18th birthday had been. Her parents had offered her a glass of champagne and welcomed her in to adulthood. What did that mean to them?
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Keep Calm And Mommy On
22 Jun 2017I was excited about reading this book, because Tanu is a blogger, whose posts I have been reading since my earliest blogging days in 2015. Tanu's blogs always stood out in the mass of parenting blog posts on the mycity4kids website not only because of a her progressive outlook and knack for zeroing in on important parenting issues, but also because of her writing style. Her posts are a pleasure to read, because the writing flows easily as she escorts you though a spectrum of emotions without getting dramatic. She has strong opinions and a dry wit tempered by sensitivity and empathy.
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Taking The First Step
15 Jun 2017 -
Monthly News Publication For Kids
10 Jun 2017Some time ago, I received my first copy of My Paper, a monthly news publication for kids. My 5 year old daughter was so excited she wanted to read all the articles at once. Frankly in today's internet age I did not see any point in getting them a subscription to a newspaper. After all information is at their fingertips. They can look up anything they are curious about, and for fiction or activities I buy them books. So what purpose does a monthly news publication serve?
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The New Kid
05 Jun 2017Neha has just returned from a long vacation. Her friends give her a warm welcome. But in the time she was gone, a new family has moved in to the housing society and her friends have issues with the new kid. Neha wants to be friendly with him, but will her old friends tolerate that, or will she lose her old friends in making a new one? Read on to find out.
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Who's To Blame For My Pain?
31 May 2017I have noticed in various places, when a kid gets hurt and starts crying, sometimes, the grown up in charge rushes to comfort them but does so in strange way. For example if the child has stubbed his toe on the table, they beat the table and say, “Bad table, bad table!” Or if the child has banged their head on the wall, they sternly wag their finger at the wall and say “Bad wall!” Sometimes the child is encouraged to participate in punishing the offending inanimate object.
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Navigating The Relationship Maze
27 May 2017In modern relationships, terms like space, boundaries, communication and secrets are often used to assess a health of a relationship. We want to have open and honest communication with our partners, and yet we want space and to set boundaries. Are these demands incompatible or can they all be satisfied in harmony?
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The Mysterious Uncle Uh-Oh
25 May 2017 -
A Review Of The Dark Prophecy
20 May 2017I was all set to go to Kolkata on a family holiday, when this book arrived. As a Percy Jackson fan, I couldn't be happier. It had been a while since I did a review for PlusMinus'n'More but the timing was perfect. Now I had some exciting reading material for my week long holiday. And the book definitely lived up to my expectations. For a detailed review of the book click here.
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Is the Internet Isolating Us?
09 May 2017A decade ago, I lived in a foreign country. That was when I started using social media. For a few years, it was about catching up with old friends, sharing pictures and gossiping about what had changed. It seemed like our forgotten friendships could be revived through the magic of the internet. If anyone had then told me, that the internet would eventually be isolating people, I would have called them raving loons.
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The Caterpillar And The Butterfly & Other Poems
05 May 2017This is a set of 9 poems I have written to match 9 paintings done by my 5 year daughter Pell. The poems are, imaginitive, quirky, funny and adorable, and there is something for everyone. One poem is about Halloween, another about snowmen and a third about sea life. Read on and enjoy the colourful, vibrant paintings.
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Setting Boundaries In Relationships
29 Apr 2017A blogger friend of mine recently wrote an article about being an over enthusiastic newly wed. Being ambitious, she always aimed high and marriage was no different. She took it on as something to excel at. So she was eager to tackle everything from being a working woman to running the household like clockwork. Being highly competent, she managed just that. Well at least until the couple was blessed with a beautiful bundle of chaos and then the expectations she had built up back fired and caused marital issues that required a lot of work to fix.