when he falls
In general whenever he falls, we usually don’t pick him up immediately when he falls. This looks a bit harsh initially. It is also a bit more harder on us parents because first impulse is to rush and comfort him when he’s hurt himself. But he’s learnt to a certain extent to rely on himself […]
flashback: his first friend – sharing
This is based on a comment left on Shruthi’s post on Sharing… Abhinav’s first friend – a German baby Adrian. All kinds of different reactions by the two babies were just amazing. Though I’ll never really know to what extent they were able to identify what was going on – there was definitely a lot […]
role playing for encouraging better behaviour
He can sometimes be pretty posessive with food or toys, and then he shouts at other kids if they take anything. Of course – food that he likes like chocolates or chips, he’s quite liberal with his regular meals! One thing we sometimes do: Appa comes to the hall with a bowl of chips. And […]
change in behavior
Usually if Abhinav isn’t eating something, one of the techniques occasionally used is to say ‘Appa yella thinbuDuthe, ninag koDode illa’ (Appa is going to finish all your food, won’t give you anything!) And then he gets real wild and angrily shouts at Appa and then snatches his plate and then gobbles the food. He’s […]
how to feed him – some solutions
One sweet solution to this perennial question, someone had suggested this earlier but somewhere we had forgotten, and remembered again later – was to get him to abstain from sweets. No more chocolates, gems, or poppins. This of course didn’t go well with him – but we had a story – ‘a rakshasha (daemon) came […]
patterns – breaking free from them
If we look at our adult life, we find that we’re engrossed on a daily basis on a variety of patterns – routines – like brushing teeth to excercising to eating and working and so on. Of course this might be an inevitable part of a common man’s life, but once they start becoming mechanical […]
can television add value to an infant's education?
Abhinav has learnt quite a few rhymes and vocabulary from watching videos, so I used to think the answer was yes, to a certain extent of course. But this article from Time magazine was quite surprising. Television often helps as an alternative babysitter or maid, but there are claims that it can add value to […]