2017
19/Nov
My Blog Posts
2017
8/Nov
It was a nice sunny November morning. Weather in Mumbai was turning into the slight cold that is actually a cooler summer by any standards. Rashi thought it was the right time to bring up something about Kumar, her husband, that was nagging her. ‘Good morning baby,’ she tried to sound excited with two […]
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2017
23/Jun
There is obvious discrimination between boys and girls in most Indian families. I am saying most but I believe that it exists in almost all families. In most it is open discrimination and in a small minority it is hidden discrimination. It is important to identify such instances, even in well-to-do families, before we address […]
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2017
5/Jun
Recently, I was forced to watch this movie, Grown Ups -2, by my kids. They are aged 10 and 12. I found the movie hilarious and thanked my kids for forcing us to watch it as a family. One scene that I liked and that portrays the modern parents very well and how they praise […]
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2017
14/May
Even though I am an MBA in Finance and Marketing, I must admit that I became financially literate long after completing my education. It was a process of trial and error. It involved making some mistakes and then learning from them. Few decisions turned out to be good for me. Recently, CNBC TV18 requested us […]
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2017
4/May
Today’s middle class parents are facing a severe problem of plenty when it comes to extracurricular activities for their children aged 3 to 13. There are all kinds of classes on offer. Some are offered within the school and others outside. These classes are for activities like reading, writing, speech, drama, elocution, dance, drawing, […]
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2017
24/Apr
This question is especially relevant in an Indian context. Parents in our society are notorious for maintaining a tight leash on children, even after they have left home or they get married. Today’s parents apparently work hard and try to provide the best for their children. If you think about it, it was always true. […]
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2017
12/Mar
While on my morning run, I heard this cute sounding ad on the FM radio. It has a series of statements from children, presumably in the age-group of 12-18 years talking to their parents. The statements go like this: “Papa, why don’t you let me meet my friends?” “Mumma, why can’t I play […]
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2017
24/Feb
As a response to my last blog-post on parenting, someone asked me, ”How do we explain the difference between needs and wants to children?” Tough question. Most of us are grappling with this problem ourselves. But it is a legitimate one. If you start giving in to the indiscriminate demands of a child, there is […]
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2017
13/Feb
As my wife and I were coming to terms with our own socialization process and frequency, we were faced with the same question for our kids. I must admit, we didn’t put in too much thought about strategizing this bit for our children. Things evolved and may rules were made as well as broken over […]
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One of my parenting pet-peeve is that I am constantly falling behind the curve. In simple language it means that as soon as I feel I am able to manage a four year old child my child is already seven. As of now I was just beginning to feel that I could handle my 8 […]
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