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Best of our conversations comes out mostly when I am driving with Tim, it's either on ferrying him to classes or picking him from school or going to parties. So this was about a month back while on way to drums class and then way back: Drive to class:  So mumma in me preaching about how Tim can excel in things he is learning by doing them with full concentration and focus. Me : So Ishaan ( name I call when we have a grown up talk), I think if you focus and try to be fully in the moment you can get much more out of different things you do ..be it soccer, drums, robotics or even playing.  Tim ( little annoyed ) : I know mumma, but  " I am doing the best I can" Me ( displaying customary parental " we know it a''" tone) : Yes Ishaan, but you know we never reach our best. Our best is always yet to come and more we try and put in effort we amaze ourselves by how we can keep outdoing our best. Tim : Hmmmm... ok ok Drive back from class:...

It seemed she could never meet her standards. The high levels that always seemed so far fetched. To outside world she was great, an independent thinker, an achiever, value creator. But to her own self she was so ungenerous, stingy and demanding. One day standing facing the mirror, her inner girl demanded an explanation. An explanation for missed appreciations, an explanation for unexplained coldness. And she had no words to say in her defense, for once and all she felt ashamed.Ashamed of having failed to please her own soul, ashamed of depriving her of all the love. She looked into her eyes and made a promise! A promise to give her the due credit she deserved, a promise to nurture and celebrate her and make her feel proud. Since then, they have been  Best Friends !

This day Timmu seems to be too much interested in stamps while mumma doesn't seem to be Timmu -Mom, can you get stamps for me from your office Mom - Mein kya koi post office mein kaam karti hun? (Little disappointed, Tim goes to Papa.) Timmu - Papa can you get stamps for me from your office ( Papa decides to score points and agrees) Papa : OK beta, I will get for you for sure. Timmu - Papa...AAP kya post office mein kaam karte ho ?????

Timmu is four years now and till now have been thinking to let him take things easy and let him indulge in free play. But somehow feel that now is the time to introduce him to more serious reading.. my experiments with making him read have not been quite much successful.. can't nail a particular reason but I guess its combination of - My own laziness to set up a routine for him - He finding it more interesting to tear books than read it - he is still not comfortable recognizing words  Now what ever is the reason I want to now give it a serious thought so my first steps I took today are: 1- Ordered some kids books online - Junior Kumbhkaran - This is written by my ex-colleague( Arundhati Venkatesh) who turned author with this :) I feel excited to read out a story written by a person I know closely and below ones going by recommendations on blog of another friend Simran ( need to acknowledge to her) http://chipsnchutzpah.wordpress.com/ - Goodnight Moon -...

Tim is 3+ and already a seasoned actor as he knows how to throw a well thought tantrum act or when to butter his mom dad telling them " aap kitni sweet ho mumma ek dum toffee jaise". But this is about his first experience with professional camera.A friend was doing a video advert for his entrepreneurial venture and wanted kids to act.So he asked if Timmu could play role of Hanuman.I was not quite sure how is he going to respond to this whole acting thing so was ready for surprises on day of shoot.But to our pleasure he really cooperated and nicely acted  the lines and scenes for this age.I actually found my kiddo more patient and professional than the guy paid for shooting the video. Timmu happily changed the costume and behaved like a nice boy throughout the whole thing that took around 2-3 hours with occasional bribing of chewing gum. The final advert turned out quite nice with all kids really making it a nice watch.Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGKdN...

Hey There!! Before I start getting into details of the admission process I would like to share the reason why I am writing this post. While researching about the schools for my boy I reached out to friends who have kids in schools, read through blogs and posts, requested feedback on FB forums where people have shared their personal experiences and I really thank them all in helping me out with information. So I feel obliged to do the same and share mine. I had not gone through process for many schools since we finalized quite soon so below are schools I would be talking about 1. Lotus Valley International School- Nirvana County, Gurgaon 2. Scottish High International School - Sushant Lok, Gurgaon 3. Suncity World School - Suncity, Gurgaon Lotus Valley - Forms were out in last week of August and you could fill forms over a period on 2-3 days and submit at school reception. - Advertisements are put up on school website and newspapers week ahead so keep checking, ...