My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

My daughter is going through terrible two's right now.Wow ! never heard of this term when I was in India and saw so many kids born in my own close family and going through the same age. I have no idea what goes into the brains of toddlers of this age that they are always at the verge of severe melt down and nothing you can do at that time to mollify them.They just decide to cry and cry and yes keep crying. Anytime I say "no" to some thing I am prepared to get the shrill crying for at least 15-20 minutes.This becomes even more horrific at night when I cant apply the policy of "cry-it-out". Oh My God ,I am going through that terrible situation right now.It is as if she disagrees with every thing and anything I say or ask her to do.Seems like she disagrees with her self too at times.Now there are thing she can do on her own and there are things which she cant do.Her problem is she has got a very independent mind(that is good to some extent) and wants to do every th...

Never in my life had I thought that I would ever love cooking. Yes before getting married I would cook things every once in a while just to flaunt my cooking skills (which I guess is ingrained in my genes ha ha: D). Over this weekend, here is what I made, and it turned out to be an absolute hit. Since early childhood, I happened to live with lots of Bengali friends and families and their sweets are well known all over India . Sweet, simple, elegant and delectably pure sweets. One of them is “Sandesh” or “Sondesh”.I remember my father bringing packets of these sweets and they would disappear overnight .However I never got to eat more than 2-3 being the youngest sibling and smallest tummy. Without going any further, I would love to share this recipe with all the sweet lovers who have the real taste for just simple milk based non-complex sweet. Here’s what you are going to need:- Milk – 8 cups Lemon juice - 4-5 tablespoons Saffron Sugar -1/2 cup Cardamom powder- ...