Category: bringing up mother

  • Getting my Hands dirty

    Here I am working my morning pages. Strangely the things that come in space are gardening, trekking and swimming in the river and not what I thought were my standard hobbies that are theatre and dancing. Strange isn’t it. Even as a child when I was very upset a walk in the garden or sitting…

  • Helping our kids learn pedestrian skills.

    Helping our kids learn pedestrian skills.

    We do our morning walks very purposefully before the traffic. If we do reside at place where the traffic does not let up then we drive in our SUV’s to the  thata-paati park and walk, yet we have abandonded this in our daily life. maybe it is a good idea to teach our kids to…

  • Think like a girl….

    “I’m blogging for the India Today Woman Summit 2015 #WomenPower activity at BlogAdda.” The prompt began with the oft repeated quote it’s impossible to guess what a woman wants. Then there was reference to gender equality.  Yes we seem to be very confused on the stand a much needed discussion, do woman want to be treated specially or equally?…

  • When I was Young…

    #BachpanWithFlinto A legacy I received… I wish I could hand it down Do I remember the good old days, of course the time I we played hide and seek and how we played it climbing roof tops and tree tops, baking when our mothers were not around, waiting for the letters from cousins after holidays,…

  • Breaking family cycles

    Breaking family cycles is the start of change. Dealing with family patterns I realized is the important work during healing be itself or someone’s it is also the hardest. Though we tend to believe that in leaving our childhood homes and embarking upon the journey of adulthood we have effectively removed ourselves  from the harmful…

  • Leaving a Legacy.

    I found out that the month of   August had another interesting observation—what is your legacy Month. I was quite surprised, not only did not know about it, but neither could I comprehend it for usually legacy meant something that is received from someone who has died. I decided to research more about it and I…