My latest post on Mom's diaries is here. I tried to edit and paste but there's something awry with the formatting, so just posting the link for now.In our case, multilingual is actually trilingual :) But I think the same rules hold. I learnt a lot from my Brazilian friend in the US. She was a naturalized American and her kids spoke Brazilian Portugese, French, Spanish and English!

Anushka is into reading chapter books in a big way and right now her favourite is the timeless staple- Enid Blyton.She was helping me sort the picture books for our move and paused every now and then to read old favourites.She was so moved by Tulika's Beboo Bear that I found her sobbing when I got back to the room. I felt really bad for assuming that she is old enough to read all picture books herself. While reading them is easy, the content of some books can be pretty d

Y has been attending a baby ballet class in Gurgaon for the last four or five months. I enrolled her for a lark, because she loves dancing and because I thought performing on stage would make her more confident and less of a shrinking violet. She’s been bunking half the classes this semester thanks to our crazy travelling and weekend breaks, which, given how expensive ballet classes are, has made me feel very guilty indeed! Barring the first couple of classes, I did not get to see what she ha

Seven Wonders of the World. The Saptarishis. Sapta Swara. Secret Seven. Do you know any more?You turn seven today, my sweety pie. I am not sure how much you will recall of the year that went by, when you grow up to be seventeen. Here is a summary for the future:About you at 7: To eat: Bhindi 7 days a week is your idea of a great menu. You added mild Masale Bhaat to your list of likes, you eat almost all veggies and fruits , but still go easy on spice/ chillies. You are not much into ju

This one was a slapdash affair. Ads was asked to make some craft related to the bee, since they are learning about bees in school now. I wanted something that involved some basic gluing and sticking since Ads would be doing most of the work and his fine motor skills go for a toss when it comes to cutting and pasting :)So this is what I came up with. One clean and empty plastic Mother Dairy kulfi cone :) Cut out a circle, draw a smiley face and paste it on the open end of the plastic cone. E

I try to do some craft with the kids every week - but there are times when weeks go by without us working on something together, and I don't like that. We seem to get out a lot during the weekends and in addition, these two days of the week are the only time S gets to spend with the kids. I am left with the weekdays when it is hard to schedule anything between tennis lessons and homework and playtime.When S travels and is out over the weekend, that's when we are able to do crafty-artsy stuff tog

Ads was asked to make a model of a crocodile for some class assignment. I was halfway through making it when I realized I was making an alligator. Oops :)Normally, I never allow Ads to dump any assignment on me. But the school week has been extraordinarily full for him. He has had to read 2 books for a "Reading Grand Prix" that they have going, and compose 2 original poems for display (which means he had to compose, neatly write and then decorate the paper on which the poem was written), apart f

Aditi is very fond of ba (as she refers to balls). Scraps of paper and fabric get crushed and crumpled to become impromptu balls. In this pic a plastic bag t was thus honoured.I just teased her with a huge pumpkin/ squash my MIL gave us and it was so cute to see her have a go at pushing and lifting it!

Aditi enjoying a film glossy inside her palypen cot( hand me down from Anush)

Goosh’s love for aeroplanes continues. Here’s Goosh’s fleet of planes made from play-doh. Thanks Sands! Filed under: Mom Speak Tagged: crafts