My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

When I decided to have another child after the first one became almost 3 years old,I thought they will have a good company to each other.The main reason behind it was the sense of insecurity and absence of family in the U.S.Far ahead when I look I do not see any chance of my kids going back to India and settling down there. Even if they have to  ,I do not think  my kids will  even know their  immediate family members very well .It is very difficult to keep the kids stay in touch intimately with family while living in the U.S. I show to them the family photos ,they get emotionally connected but the moment the pictures are gone from in front of the eyes they forget about everyone.They talk to each other over the phone but the feeling is as if talking to an nonexistent person.It is even more difficult for small kids to understand that the world is very big and there the other side of the world too.One moment I will explain to my daug...

These days my daughter is learning  more about god and Jesus.I do not know how she relates God to people but she is developing a strong faith  upon God ,which is in a way good and in some ways not good for her development.Good in the sense that this faith in God is always preventing her from doing the wrong thing for her age.I believe this, because every time she is mean to her sister ,the fear of God's punishment stops her from doing that.The believe in God is bad in the sense that these days to complete every task she relies upon God or seeks help from God.Even for the small things she starts calling God to help her.For example yesterday she was not able to find her shoes and she started calling for help and was very confident that God will whisper in her ears as to where to look for her shoes. At her age it is hard for me to explain to her that God is just a faith.If I try to explain to her, she encounters so many new words that we get hung up on learning n...