What we share about our past shapes their future.
Recently I was struck by a dinner time conversation at a gathering. A friend was recounting some incidents about his 'high spirits' as a pre-teenager. The incidents may have seemed funny to him as a...
View ArticleShame is an important emotion
Parenting books tell us not to shame our children and that this will harm their psyches. Of late I have realized that this is not a good idea. Shame is an important emotion. Shame is a self regulator....
View ArticleWhy do people do what they do? - A question that could reduce friction...
We often look at somebody's actions or the way they do things and think to ourselves - "how silly/stupid/illogical!". Many a times these thoughts come when the other person does things in a way...
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Shy? Here is a simple trick!!!!
I was very shy as a child. Now I am the opposite. There is a freedom that is euphoric when one conquers a horribly limiting emotion like shyness that is truly.....liberating. This is for all those out...
View ArticleIndians inveterate recyclers
Cut back to that time not so far back in history when the word recycle was not known to many and you will realize that the quintessential Indian was a recycler par excellence. I remember seeing cycle...
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Hormone imbalance - treatment and weight gain - you can never go back.....
Back in 2005, I spend my entire birthday I bed, unable to get up and with no interest in the 101 daily chores that were waiting for me. Reason? Bleeding of the sort that left me shaking when I stood...
View ArticleTreat Students like Customer? No way! I thought at first.......
Treat Students like Customers? A blog heading starting with these words caught my eye. As in - Customer is always right? No way! Or so I thought at first...... How can a student and a customer be on...
View ArticleEnvironment concerns and no Diwali crackers isnt something wrong with this...
Diwali has come and gone and this year the number of no-to-crackers citizens have touched a record high. Several denizens of our 600 families strong community shunned them this year citing child...
View ArticleMom to Mom-in-law The Transition
I was never the MAAA (the hindi film too-good-to-be-true) type of mother. In fact, even now, though I refer to my sons in conversation as my children I sometimes get an inner shock OMG :omg:I am...
View ArticleFor all unhappy women - how to be happy in spite of everything - Step 1
Every time I read threads by unhappy women struggling in their marriages and relationships with in-laws, I have that uncontrollable urge to turn the world around on its head. Not too long after that...
View ArticleIs it possible to break the MIL-DIL tussle?
My last but one post "Transition - from Mom to Mom-In-Law" was a personal one, where I recounted an unexpected, and much too early, promotion from Mom to prospective MIL and how I dealt with it....
View ArticleFor all unhappy women - how to be happy in spite of everything - Step 2
The Importance of Happiness In the first post for this series, I had mentioned my reason for starting this topic - to equip those women (men too!), who are in unhappy circumstances and sinking under...
View ArticleFor all unhappy women - how to be happy in spite of everything - Step 3
In Step 2 I talked about the Importance of Happiness and how it made us powerful in our daily lives. The logical step in the pursuit of happiness seems to be a deeper dive into what exactly happiness...
View ArticleFor all unhappy women - how to be happy in spite of everything - Step 4
Starting the Journey This series is an exploration I started some time back about human beings quest for happiness. Step1 could be called the Discovery, Step 2 the Importance and Step 3 Dive into the...
View ArticleFor all unhappy women - how to be happy in spite of everything - Step 5
Gaining Speed In this series of do-it-yourself happiness quest, this is step 5. Step 1 was Discovery, Step 2 the Importance, Step 3 the Dive into the meaning and need for happiness and Step 4 the...
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