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  • Growth & Development,  Reflections

    Happy & Healthy Kids: A Blessing

    I consider myself extremely fortunate and even lucky to be the mother of two healthy and happy little kids. I am their keeper. For now and forever. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

    November 7, 2016
  • Growth & Development

    Stop Comparing Kids. Now!

    “She is so tiny,” said the random woman holding a baby. Just seconds before she said that, I had said, “I already miss that stage even though I am excited for what comes next” referring to the baby in her…

    September 7, 2016
  • TJ,  Toddler Days,  Years are short

    The Inscrutable Exploratory Missions of a Young Mind

    I am trying something new today. Recently, I was thinking about how our kids’ universe is so full of exploration and then… I decided to stop thinking, and actually start writing about it: Here is how my 2 year old…

    August 19, 2016
  • Baby E,  Growth & Development,  Health,  Second Child

    My angel baby takes her 4m shots #likeagirl

    My darling little angel baby girl got her 4 months shots today as well as an oral vaccine and she took it #likeagirl . I was so proud of her! I scheduled the appointment for today so TJ could be…

    July 26, 2016
  • Baby J,  Big Changes,  Growth & Development,  TJ,  Toddler Days,  Years are short

    Please stop growing…not really…yes, really…no..

    TJ will be 2.5 years next month. Yes, my little boy whom I can still remember holding as a newborn, is going to be two-and-a-half years old!!! My other little one, my munchmuffin will turn 4 months this week…the kids…

    July 19, 2016
  • Growth & Development,  J and E,  Lists,  Parenting,  Second Child,  Toddler Days,  Uncategorized,  Years are short

    5 Challenges of being a Firstborn

    Most people, myself included, will be forgiven for thinking that firstborns have all the advantages over their younger siblings. After all, they got their parents’ undivided attention for a while before the next one came along. They were fussed over,…

    July 15, 2016
  • 2 year old,  Growth & Development,  TJ,  Toddler Days,  Years are short

    Just a quick note: No more Choo Choo

    TJ always used the words ‘choo choo’ to mean a train or trains. That changed two days ago. He now calls them, well – train. A little part of me cried over the onomatopoeic death of a baby word. As…

    July 14, 2016
  • Growth & Development,  J and E,  Motherhood lessons,  Okay mom,  Parenting,  Parenting Stereotypes,  San Jose,  Things to do with kids,  Uncategorized

    Concerted Cultivation: What Middle-Class Parents do for their Kids

    Note: Using ‘middle-class’ is not my choice of word here. I use it as conceptualized by Annette Lareau in her explanation of the term, ‘Concerted Cultivation’. If popular media, public commentary, and recent articles on parenting are to be believed, …

    June 22, 2016
  • 2 year old,  Growth & Development,  TJ,  Toddler Days

    What a fun 2 year old!

    People always talk about how the moment they laid their eyes on this newborn child, they felt an intense love-at-first-sight kind feeling, the butterflies and stars feeling of falling head over heals in love with their child. Honestly, I don’t…

    March 18, 2016
  • Growth & Development,  TJ,  Toddler Days,  Years are short

    Paci go bye bye

    Just like that, TJ has given up on his pacifier. I was one of those moms who was very firm that my child would not use a pacifier. I hadn’t done much research on this issue to come up with…

    February 24, 2016
  • 1-year old,  Growth & Development,  India-Canada,  Motherhood,  TJ

    Toddler J (TJ) personality on the upswing

    My little TJ is all over the place these days in terms of exploration. After all, with a nearly two weeks visit to Canada where we stayed at three different places and did an entire road trip from Toronto to…

    July 30, 2015
  • 1-year old,  Feeding,  Growth & Development

    Adventures of a boy wonder – The Food Chronicles

    Toddler J or TJ is going to turn 17 months young next week and already he is a nonstop bundle of energy who only stops his active learning and engagement during sleep times. At all other times, he is either…

    July 22, 2015
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