Parenting

During recess, K was having his snack with his usual group of friends in school.

I guess there are limited tables so they had to share table with another group of students – who were not part of K’s gang.

There was a vacant seat next to K.

But one student refused to sit.

He reasoned, “Oh no, he is Indian and I am not going to sit next to him.”

Obviously he was referring to K who is a little tanned, as the Indian boy.

K overheard and related the story to us. We took it as a joke – especially on his skin color.

But it is NOT a joke if you look deeper. [Read more…]

Heard a joke on the radio.

It goes something like this:

After dinner, mother and daughter are doing the dishes in the kitchen while father and son are in the living room watching TV.

Then comes a crashing sound from the kitchen. Someone obviously breaks a plate or something.

“It was mom,” the son says confidently.

“Why are you so sure it was mom?” the father asks, puzzled.

The son replied, “Because I don’t hear any scolding.”

Father: “………” [Read more…]

It’s a rare scene. At least in my country.

While I was slurping my noodles at a coffee shop, I saw a mother with 4 children. The eldest one is about 12 years old and the youngest is about 4.

She had to take care of not one but 4 kids by herself – without a maid. It’s no easy task.

“Impressive,” I thought silently.

The Supermom was buying ice-cream for the children. You can tell the excitement on the children’s faces.

This is when the ugly episode unfolded right in front of my eyes. [Read more…]

Read an interesting article in the paper recently.

It’s a survey conducted in the UK about the skills learned by children.

Want to know what those skills are?

Here they are at random order: [Read more…]

After getting home from seeing my folks out of town, we reached home quite late last Sunday. Upon reaching, to make way for the car to go in, we reversed another car. Without seeing a neighbor’s car behind, we hit and scratched it.

Since it was late at that moment and nobody was around, no one saw what happened. We had the luxury to keep the incident swept under the carpet. Or we braved ourselves telling our neighbor the truth. [Read more…]