Posts tagged with “parenting”
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01 Oct 2017
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A Dentist's Views On Children's Dental Care
28 Sep 2017 -
Finally, She Slept
13 Sep 2017 -
Bonding With Kids Through Games
20 Jul 2017 -
The Bamboozling Shenanigans Of Bum Biter
15 Jul 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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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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Peas In A Pod
10 Apr 2017 -
Rules, Flexibility And Efficiency
09 Mar 2017Rules and laws are the foundation of civilized society. Yet it is not easy to make rules. A system that involves a large number of people, like a school, or a housing society, or a community is quite complex, let alone a city or a country. Rules are necessary for smooth functioning of groups. But no matter what rule is made, there will always be a few people who are reasonably inconvenienced by it.
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Of Peenytails, Ghosts, And More ...
16 Nov 2016 -
I Do It Myself
13 Nov 2016 -
Bob Dylan On Parenthood
14 Oct 2016 -
The Knitting Needles
05 Sep 2016 -
Laughing Through The Terrible Twos
05 Sep 2016 -
Why Do Grown Ups Taunt Kids?
03 Sep 2016Today we were stuck in traffic for a while. Our driver was bored waiting for some movement in traffic and turned his attention to my 2 year old. He held out his fist and asked her if she wanted a sweet. He occasionally gives sweets to my kids, so that is okay. But today, I was trying to frantically signal to him that he should not offer one today as she had eaten a few in the morning already. His response baffled me. He laughed and said, “Don't worry I don't have any. Look my hand is empty.” He said opening the fist.
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Tips-For-the Sex-Ed-Talk
29 Aug 2016 -
The God Talk
22 Aug 2016 -
Hero Worship Is Not Harmless
01 Aug 2016 -
What Do I Teach My Kids?
24 Jul 2016 -
The Everyday Insecurities Of A Mom
16 Jun 2016 -
I Think I'll Raise My Daughters To Be Nice
14 Jun 2016 -
Happy Mother's Day
08 May 2016 -
The Invisible Age Gap
24 Apr 2016 -
Exploitation Of Parental Love
05 Apr 2016I recently read this interesting article about how advertising is effective. To summarize it targets our deepest insecurities, and then tells us that having such and such product can solve our problem. By pinching where it hurts most, it makes us worry or feel bad about our selves, and then capitalizes on our desperation or misery.