Thoughts that keep me going!

We are living through times where we have been forced to encounter death in more ways than one. It seems to be coming closer to us making us feel cornered. There seems to be no way out. There seems to be no place to hide. Simply speaking, it has scared the shit out of a lot of us. It used to scare me too until …

I once read that the easiest way to overcome fear about something was to understand…

Yog and me discussing Jobs people do (aka Professions as per his EVS text book).

Mama – So what do you think is my profession?

Yog (instantly rattles off) – You are a cook. Papa is a Worker and Tatha (Grandfather) is a Builder because he loves making houses.

Mama – So what do you want to become when you grow big?

Yog (beaming from ear to ear) – I want to be a TV watcher.

Mama (bursting out with…

Search for the Ultimate Destination

I run.

I pant.

I cease.

I wonder what was my destination.

I meet Death and realize it wasn’t what I had thought it’d be.

I run but do not find either Heaven or Hell.

I run. I pant. I cease to be dead.

I meet a new life.

More determined this time…

I run fast. I pant less. I live a little longer and then I cease.

Wondering still, what was my destination meant to be?

I meet Death but not the…

Parents are constantly planning for what skills to introduce to their children for the future. Since the last Industrial Revolution focus has been on the STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Lately, parents have become more liberal and willing to accept Arts, Literature, or even Sports as the chosen career for their child. As long as the child is passionate about…

In the heat of the moment today, I asked my teenage daughter how many times in the recent past, had she shown her appreciation towards me. She and I both knew the answer but I just wanted to say it out loud. I just wanted her to feel bad. I just wanted her to fee guilty because she had make me feel bad. Having spit the poison out at my family, I stepped into the kitchen drowning my tears into the…

Five Reasons why we Chose Homeschooling

To any outsider, who has never done Homeschooling before, I can vouch that Homeschooling seems like a pretty daunting task. Most people are not able to cross the line into the Homeschooling world because Homeschooling seems like a lot of work. Plus, there are not many clearly documented resources to help along the road. Most thoughts about Homeschooling remain thoughts, until there are a few,…

Homeschooling Parents, like me, get a lot of questions related to Homeschooling. Most of these questions come from parents who are new to Homeschooling and want to know more. I love sharing my experience about Homeschooling and hence love these questions. However, given the increase in the frequency of these questions, and my limited time, I decided to create a series of blogs addressing these…

Holding On, Moving On

There are some things in life which are very dear to us. Like the first College T shirt or the first black boots or the broken vase in the corner of the living room. Even though these items have lost their materialistic purpose long ago, they still serve a very emotional purpose for us. We understand the thing and it understands us. Whenever we come face to face, we tend to give out an inward…

How do we prepare for Tomorrow? – Making our children Future Ready

Image Credits: Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians, Pixabay

Fourth Revolution is real and irreversible. As we see advancements in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines will continue to take over more and more labour-intensive jobs. This is good news for mankind as this will free us from drudgery and toil. With machines taking…

If you are reading this blog, you are either a parent, caregiver, teacher or a student yourself. You already understand that the world is rapidly changing, and it is only prudent to change along with it. We have covered this premise in our last two blogs which you can read here (Are Todays Education Systems Ready for Tomorrow?, Tomorrow that Starts Today) . In this blog, we will take the premise…

Are Todays Education Systems Ready for Tomorrow?

Ever Changing Employment Landscape

Times are changing fast. We discussed the nature of change in our previous blog – Tomorrow that starts Today. We have deduced that machines would take over more than 30% of human jobs in as soon as 5-10 years. This shift towards automation does not mean that our children will lose all jobs to machines. This only means that our children will face different jobs…

Gifts from my kitchen to me

Two burnt fingers

Three chopped nails

Dozen blackened scars

Two aching feet

Some gifts from my kitchen to me

Baking powder that always runs out

Yeast that never fails to expire

Brown Sugar that’s always wet

Butter who forgot to be soft

More gifts from my kitchen to me

Failed cakes

Burnt cookies

Bitterly bitter chocolate

Crystallised ice cream

Sigh! Gifts from my kitchen to me

Hundred giggles

Tho…

Boredom is a Gift

One late evening I was talking to a mother about Homeschooling. Like most good parents, she was concerned about providing enough stimulation to her 2.5 and 4.5 year olds. I could sense pride in her voice when she told me how she was learning carpentry so she could redecorate her children’s room. She walked me through her plan of laying brightly colored peg boards and cozy spaces in the room so…

Why do we Love to Hate Our Lives?

I wonder at what stage during the human civilization, we completely accepted –

1. Hating Monday’s because we had to go back to work

2. Loving last day of exams because we could stop learning

3. Happily sending our children back to school even when we know that they hate going to school

4. Day in, day out keep doing things that we hate but have convinced ourselves we don’t have an alternative

If…

Homeschooling Topic – Digestive System

Yog explaining importance of digestive system :

First I will drink milk. It will go in my stomach and then in my intestines. From there the energy will go in the blood. Then the blood will get the energy into my arms. Only when energy comes into my arms, can I start doing my homework.

Mama, you have to learn to wait for energy to travel in the body.

P.S. _ Yogs drawing of the Digestive System

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