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Tag: parenting

  • Fa diz th’ grottie linen?

    Who does the dirty linen?   I have a dirty battered superwoman cape for the cleaners. It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. Laurence J. Peter Have you been handed the superwoman cape, mine is kind of battered yet it is very much there.…

  • The Safe Zone

    My nephew Sharad is extremely good with hands, and loves to fiddle around in my grandpa’s carpentry workshop. My aunt who is school teacher and I were observing him in one of his activity.  I casually mentioned, may be “Ajja should teach him carpentry”  response from aunt and my cousin’s wife so spontaneous, ”definitely not,…

  • Powers of disengagement, Playing mind games.

    Powers of disengagement, Playing mind games. Listening to a patient I realized how much we tend to live playing mind games and going on power trips disengagement might be useful to come out of this, yet disengagement is becomes an escape route if we fail to face and resolve. When I say disengagement I mean…

  • At the Museum.

    Somewhere the definition  of public spaces and private seems does not seem exist in our culture. I am not talking about the shomeall social network nurtured culture. I am talking of people who in their 50’s too. Just look at our temples, we are so noisy so crude and me first. we don’t even attempt…

  • Public spaces

     A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness, bad manners, and lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, this is more significant than a riot happening. If we were go to by these symptoms we are dying. The way 12+ something’s, call them adolescents…  the language they use…

  • The Road Ruler..

    3,505 road accidents registered in Goa till October 2013, of which 209 people died, out the 209, 127 were on two wheelers. We scream our concerns for road safety, we have the road safety week from 2nd to 7th January candlelight marches, street plays, banners, seminars and god knows what but do people really care?…