Tag: parenting

  • Mothers On The Mom

    Mothers On The Mom

    It’s Friday so breakfast is with mom, over telephone of course. My mom is commenting on the new advertisement of some refrigerator, the tag line is,”maa hoon” this has made her angry. Amma’s stand is very clear, she says the advertisements work on  subconscious, kitchen mom is incharge, so much so women have become territorial…

  • Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Healing the Mother on Mother’s day

    Its mother’s day. What can I gift my mother for mother’s day. We have been fed with amazing stories of mothers, Kunti, Jijabhai’s and Kaikeyi’s. From our tradition. Coming to independent India we have the all we have that lady I forget her name, the abused sacrificing doormat mother. I think her name was Sulochana…

  • Travel and Kids!!

    Originally posted on Parwatisingari's Weblog: with my daughter at Husainsagar Traveller Kid, Before I even tackle the questions posted in the happy hour, what  would be a vacation. To me, a period of suspension of work, study or other activities. It is usually used for a rest, recreation, or travel and of course a…

  • Ethical Will-passing on values

    Long ago I had written a blog on Ethical will, an ethical will. An Ethical will (Hebrew: “Zava’ah”) is a document designed to pass ethical values from one generation to the next. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I had found the entire concept very intriguing. I cannot find the blog…

  • Second Time Round

    Second Time Round

    Miracles do happen, and Grandmothers, are the guardian angels of their grand-daughters. If my second daughter is all popular young lady today, I have my gynaecologist Dr.Kasturi Nayak to thank, I had gone for my monthly check up just before we left for the parking slot, she said let me listen to my grandbaby and…

  • The Real Heroes

    A lofty call, how will I teach my kids to press Ctrl+S   for nature? Well I will not, teach them. Simply because kids cannot be taught, they learn through imitation. They imbibe values that we can hand them. We are destroying forests, we are destroying wild life, we have come to a stage where we…