Holiday blues
by Zephyr • April 10, 2011 • Little People • 44 Comments
Teachers take fiendish glee in setting loads of homework assignments for the kids during the holidays. Don’t they have kids, I wonder?
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Cyber Nag
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Little People
A bundle of ‘No’es
by Zephyr • February 4, 2011 • Little People, Relationships • 43 Comments
He gave me one look with all the anger his four-year-old eyes could muster and sputtered, ‘In this whole world you are ……’ I could see him searching for the most indicting word to describe his heartless mother; ‘….the baddest mother!’ he finished and burst into tears.
Read more →Children in TV ads – cute or insolent?
by Zephyr • October 1, 2010 • Little People • 21 Comments
The latest KBC ad features kids who are boisterous, but mouthy nevertheless. At a time when many of the values are either being discarded or frowned upon as being ‘old-fashioned’, TV ads are adding their mite to the problem by featuring insolent kids.
Read more →Cute nursery rhymes?
by Zephyr • May 8, 2010 • Little People • 35 Comments
The one good thing about nursery rhymes is that they are taught to very small children who don’t ask you the meaning of the words but happily sing them!
Read more →Coaching or choking classes?
by Zephyr • April 22, 2010 • Little People • 22 Comments
A retired professor of IIT Delhi once said, “On the given day, the student who manages to retain his or her cool to answer the paper well, is the one to be selected. There is no magic formula.”
Read more →Where is the magic?
by Zephyr • March 31, 2010 • Little People, Nostalgia • 34 Comments
One need not have oodles of money to have fun. All it requires is imagination and some effort.
Read more →The invisible workforce
by Zephyr • March 4, 2010 • Little People, Society • 4 Comments
They are small and often only as old or younger than their 'masters', for whom they fetch and carry..
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