Category: The ParenTales
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Animals, Colours and Ganesha by Sree Aadya
A very normal day while I was completely engrossed working on my laptop… This little soul of mine, Aadya walks up to me tells me .. “Amma .. I will tell you something .. you type on your computer”I was taken aback .. What does a 5 year old who uses the PC only for…
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Lockdown .. Unleash ..
I want to do things mindfully .. It’s a luxury that I am completely deprived off .. and its sad that people around me just don’t get it .. Yeah .. sometimes I wonder .. if .. they get .. it ..themselves! But .. are they aware of mindfulness .. in the first place? The…
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Hope
I have been on a sabbatical for so long on the blog. Rather than the block or extreme fatigue from the challenging job of handling three under 6, I would attribute it to my lack of clarity. I was just searching for the right platform to reach out to more people rather than simply write…
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When your preschooler teaches you about compassion!
Manasi and Aadya might want anything and everything under the sun .. otherwise.. but when they are sleepy, they just want the warmth of Amma touching them .. just my hand would do! It is such moments when they put their hands around my neck .. that I call … 😍 Complete Bliss! ❤️❤️❤️ So…
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How motherhood transformed me!
I am finally breaking my blogging sabbatical with this post of the blog train -2 hosted by Pooja Kawatra of Mums & Babies. Thanks Pradnya for the warm intro .. Well moving onto “How Motherhood Transformed Me” .. I have to move back to 24 years back … Oh yes! .. I was…
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No-cook Edible Play Dough
I am constantly on the run for simple .. DIY activities for lil A 🙂 Though there were many versions of DIY dough on the internet .. I found this extremely simple and effective 😀 This is completely edible as well .. Ingredients: 1 cup flour (any flour will do) I used wheat 1/4 cup…
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An ex-skater’s take on skating for children today
I was asked to post about skating for kids on one of my favorite parenting groups and I did an elaborate post on it. So decided to share the same here and would be editing more in a while 🙂 I have been a national skater .. Roller hockey player(more precisely) I was introduced to…
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BFF
We generally drift off to sleep with me patting the little one to sleep by putting her on me and Aadya sleeping next to me. It is generally a story and when Aadya decides to sleep, she asks for Krishna’s story 🙂 Well who doesn’t love little Krishna story or rather stories 😀 So we…
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Matching colors – a rainbow wheel
Well, well after this colourful popsicle sticks, lil A definitely took to learning colours and now she can name almost 10 colours 🙂 I really did not have time for more activities, but that did not deter her enthusiasm 🙂 She loved mom colouring and she took to learning the names (of the colours) of…
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2 piece puzzles
I wanted puzzles for little A since long but as soon as she turned 2 I just had to get them .. See the haul for both of us 😉 But A was clearly irritated seeing she couldn’t solve them .. Then I realized she needed something simple to start with to get her interested…