Tania Tells A Story
21 Feb 2022
Tania has written a fantasy story based on a scientific article. She narrates it to Sonia.
Posts tagged with “growing up”
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Fudge Series
28 Jun 2021 -
Tania And The Mystery Smoker
08 Jan 2021
Sonia is burned by a cigarette butt that falls in to the balcony of her home. Tania is determined to find the person who hurt her little sister and put a stop to their barbaric behavior by publicly humiliating them. But how will she catch the culprit? Read on to find out.
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Tania Is Confused
07 Aug 2020
With so many different religions, philosophies, theories and gods, Tania is utterly confused. A discussion with Mama paves the way for a lifetime of exploration.
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Tania Gets A Shock
02 Dec 2019
One day in school, nine-year-old Tania suddenly notices blood stains in her underwear. She realizes she is bleeding, and it won’t stop. Where is the blood coming from? Is she sick? What’s going to happen? Read on to find out!
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
31 Jul 2019 -
A Practical Approach To Cultivating Discipline, Empathy And Independence
12 Mar 2019
Cultivating discipline, empathy and independence with a single practical idea, is that even possible? Read on to find out.
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Charlotte's Web
24 Feb 2019 -
The 7 Year Journey From Baby To Buddy
21 Jan 2019
7 years of motherhood has certainly been an interesting journey as I have watched my baby slowly evolving in to my buddy, and we are less than half way there but it's magical.
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Round 2. Some Things Are New
07 Jan 2018
We sometimes think of parenting techniques as if some are better than others, but we forget how much the merits and effectiveness of these techniques depend on the personality of the adults and children involved.
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The Betrayal
20 Nov 2017
Today, I found out that the person I trusted beyond all others, for the last 12 years, has been lying to me. Am I mad? What do you think? A flash fiction piece based on a photo prompt.
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Torches of Freedom
17 Nov 2017
Sometimes we unwittingly exchange one devil for another. A flash fiction piece inspired by a photo prompt.
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Learning Disabilities And Behavioral Disorders In Children
16 Oct 2017
What is dyslexia? How can it be detected? What can be done, to help children with dyslexia make satisfactory academic progress? What help and support is available for children with dyslexia in India? What is ADHD? What are the treatment options? What are the risk factors for oppositional defiant disorder, and how can it be treated? These are some of the issues I am going to delve in to, in this post.
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When The Clock Struck 18
26 Jun 2017
Anu 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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The Journey
17 Dec 2016 -
What Do I Teach My Kids?
24 Jul 2016
Someone had once asked me “Did you not always want to be a queen?” I replied “I did not even want to be class monitor.”
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The Many Faces Of The Girl Child
09 Dec 2015
Traditionally there have been activities and interests, that are associated with a specific gender. For example sewing, cooking, embroidery, were considered feminine activities, while carpentry, sports, battle and engineering were considered masculine activities.
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Tania Loses A Tooth
25 May 2015
This is book 23 of The Tania Series. One morning Tania wakes up and finds that her tooth is shaking. She is terrified, but Mama calms her down and tells her it is quite normal. Mama teaches her about the different types of teeth and explains that the baby teeth get replaced by permanent teeth. Reassured, Tania enjoys waggling her tooth and showing it off to her friends and grandparents. All is well, until Grandpa suggests a horrifying way to remove the shaking tooth. Tania starts worrying again. Read on to find out what happens to that tooth.
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Tania's Discovery
05 Sep 2014
This is book 12 of The Tania Series. Tania and Tanisha are at the garden digging up some mud to fill the pots for Tania's mother's tomato plants. Just as they finish digging up enough mud, they find something strange at the bottom of the hole. Out of curiosity, they dig further, and to their amazement, they find a red plastic box. What is in the box? Why was it buried? Who buried it there? Read on to find out.
