(This article “Zoo Visits With Kids Tips and Tricks” is a reblog and was written especially for Kelloggs Chocos and MyCity4Kids.com. You can read the article at its original source at my parenting blog at MyCity4Kids.com here.) 6 months after my daughter was born, we …
Recycling folding wooden hand fan was another long due project for me. Little B has a beautiful wooden fan with intricate carving. The fan has been with her for the last few years and so it has stopped appealing to her. I was thinking of …
Little B often gets confused as to what her city is and what her country is. Her confusion is not with the names, but with how these geographical entities are related to each other. For example, she would often wonder if India is in Karnataka …
That one party every year that I am always the most excited about is Little B’s birthday party. It is almost my raison d’être for a quarter of a year. The first thing to be decided for a birthday party is the theme. Theme is …
It is summer vacations for my daughter and they go on for two months (yeah, I am not joking – a two-month long summer vacation!). The task for me for these two months is to ‘entertain’ her, from morning all the way to night. Little B is a toddler …
Little B loves weaving stories. Almost every time she has to say something, she would make a story out of it, inserting expressions and her assumptions here and there. Just a couple of days back, we were at Delhi’s iconic Qutub Minar trying to find …
In 2015, we started going to the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bangalore regularly. We found out about a lecture that takes place at the planetarium on the first Sunday of every month. The lecture titled “Know Your Stars” is aimed at helping people get acquainted …
I have done my graduation in Elementary Education. I was part of this amazing course at Delhi University – Bachelors of Elementary Education – that changed me forever. To call it a course would be wrong; it was in fact, a movement. The course was …
Sometimes I don’t want to eat at all in summers. The weather is hot and most meals are served hot. It just gets me irritated. Especially the snack time. For me snack time means hot tea with hot fritters or samosas. But in summers, even …
Mr B, my husband was traveling when he informed Little B and I about the then upcoming solar eclipse (that later took place on March 9th). He knew we were going to love it! Isn’t that such a nice feeling when your husband is thousands …