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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 28, 20222 min read
Do children need to be ‘productive’ all the time?
“Whenever I watch Japanese Anime which I love, my mom says, I am wasting my time. She says, I should watch National Geographic and I...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
May 19, 20222 min read
Rote learning is not child abuse
Rote learning is getting a lot of bad press these days. Many schools and institutions advertise, ‘No rote learning’ without really...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
May 18, 20224 min read
Daily arguments over fans/lights switched on in empty rooms
Disproportionate responses to people’s behaviour around us cause a lot of unpleasantness. When we are on the other side don’t we feel for...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 22, 20222 min read
Teaching loved ones to carry their umbrellas
Like Helicopter Parents, there are Helicopter Spouses and Helicopter Siblings too. “I have to enter the kitchen to do something and my...
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Sarita Talwai
Jan 22, 20222 min read
Covert Patriarchy
. I am guilty of endorsing it. I promote it when I go shopping with my daughter and coax her to buy 'suitable clothes'. I foster it when...
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Sarita Talwai
Jan 7, 20222 min read
To survive, you must tell stories...
Carrying Tales. Life is really just stories strung together. If we stop and think for a moment, the most mundane of situations have the...
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Sarita Talwai
Jan 2, 20222 min read
Benign Negligence.
Laid Back parenting style Our parents stumbled into parenthood and then bumbled their way through it. For the most part, they left us to...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 2, 20222 min read
WHY IS MY CHILD Doing Such WILD THINGS? Have I Failed As A Parent?
I was talking to the mother of a teenage girl and the mother was very distraught that her daughter was doing things neither taught at...
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Sarita Talwai
Jan 1, 20221 min read
Fluent in silence.
We want our kids to succeed. At school. In the music room. On the playing field. On the dance floor. They should be adept in languages....
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