Everyone-home-except-me bug

When I was dropping my 5yo in school I noticed a classmate of hers very hesitantly making his way to his classroom. I just thought it must be the Monday blues. His dad started consoling the child "Son, no one is home today, mamma has gone to office, even I will be going to office …

TV and kids

You might have heard the old adage "TV is bad for kids". Well, it is not very old and I don't know if that counts as an adage but I disagree with it. It is like saying 'food is bad for kids'. We can agree that good food is good for kids and junk food …

5 minute tasks

One of the biggest learning in my ongoing parental leave is lot of things take 5 minutes or less. Lot of the household chores, I mean. For example, it takes couple of minutes to put a load in the washing machine, it takes less than 5 minutes to dry those clothes. It takes less than …

100 piece jigsaw puzzle

I introduced my 3yo to jigsaw puzzles when she was 2 I guess, we started with 2 pieces (alphabets and images) and then 3, then 10. Now she can do up to 30 pieces on her own. I wanted to try out the 100 pieces with her and she was very overwhelmed. Best way to …