For every time we as a parent, knowingly or unknowingly, pass on a stereotype to our daughter or son, this is the video we should try and remember. We ignore what kids play saying its “meaningless” or “innocent” or “just child’s play.” IT IS NOT. …
(The following article is written exclusively for Kellogg’s Chocos and was originally published at MyCity4Kids. This article is an attempt in breaking gender stereotypes propagated by toys.) Sometimes, I hate being in a toy store. I hate the overly-pink and overly-blue aisles that toy stores …
The whole thing triggered about a couple of months back when we took my daughter for shopping. We finalized a nice yoga pants for her, the only thing was to try it on her. So I took her hand and accompanied her to a changing …
(This blog was first published at my parenting blog at MyCity4Kids) The day my daughter was born, the comparison started. Her forehead was compared to my husband; her nose was compared to mine. As time passed by, her activities were scrutinized and were connected with …
Reblogged from I Don’t Like Teaching Moral Lessons, There I Said It at MyCity4Kids.com. I hate teaching any sort of moral lesson to my daughter. I absolutely don’t see any purpose that moral lessons can serve in the life of a 4-year-old child. My problem …
I am down and out with flu. My body is bearing the brunt of the obvious, and yet, my mind is free to do what it pleases. So I read the book that has been lying on my shelf for a week now – ‘Losing …
I am not going to ask my daughter to stop dreaming because she might get a few nightmares along the way. I am not going to ask her to stop hiking in woods alone because she might find a stranger there. I am not going to stop her from picking up bees in her palm because one of them might sting.
My two and a half-year-old daughter is obsessed with ‘Wreck it Ralph‘ at the moment. She loved wrecking, she loves fixing. How she complements me “Ma you one dynamite gal.”
