movie: bal ganesh
Here is a movie I probably wouldn’t have watched if not for Abhinav… Bal Ganesh had Ganesh’s story wonderfully animated with some snappy music. Conceptualisation is amazingly creative with the combination of ancient mythology with some modern concepts. Here are some videos on the net… Shiva’s Tandav dance… Well it did look like Abhinav’s first […]
sleeping habits of a baby
Sometime back we had dinner with a German couple with their baby at our house, it was really a lovely evening. And first time I heard anybody who has tried the Ferber method… they said they were pretty succesful at it… I had read about this earlier, but read it again. It may not be […]
FW: children are from heaven
Nice email forwarded by Sudhee… Children Are from Heaven Positive Parenting Skills for Raising Cooperative, Confident, and Compassionate Children By Gray, John Quill Copyright © 2004 John Gray All right reserved. ISBN: 0060930993 Children Are from Heaven All children are born innocent and good. In this sense our children are from heaven. Each and every […]
art tutor for a day
Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas. Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in… only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush. first paint […]
Appa's chat with customer
This was when I was in Munich. An excerpt below. Marienplatz is the beautiful old part of the city, in the center in Munich.
wwf baby makes peace
my homework videos
As a welcome relief for all your poor readers (in case there are still any left) subject to my Dad’s ignorant perceptions, this is Abhinav managing to get a word in. You might be wondering what an easy life it is for a baby. But here you will see the how hard I have to […]
a for apple, b for bat … r for revenge…
This is a very common scene… when a small baby falls down and starts crying, one way to console him (or her) is to exclaim “BAD floor!!” or “BAD table!” or whatever he bumped against, in a very angry tone. This kind of brings a pause in the crying… Then distract the child further by […]
two ways to bring up a child
Recently someone from America had come on a visit to India. She has two granddaughters in the US, elder one she has brought up with more attention in her own way, compared to the younger one. And there on the phone was her elder granddaughter, wailing away and completely miserable not able to eat properly […]
how to teach silence?
comment here [Note: I’m not trying to explain what Suresh means, I’m just sharing some incidents in my life that seems to be a bit along similar lines] Usually when I interact with an infant I see I have this tendency that I always want him to do something. I want him to smile when […]