My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

One day out of no where both my children said they dont want to wear dresses anymore, as it feels very hot.I suggested them to wear tie-dye t-shirts and they happily agreed.Every summer we do this as it gets very hot where we live. This time instead of doing the regular tie-dye patterns we decided to do something different .Few weeks back I saw this kind some where and decided to do it ourselves at home. With  little bit of my help ,they did the most part on their own. My children were so happy because the finished product was very pretty and they had the sense of accomplishment .The painting was very forgiving and there was no right or wrong way.Simple use of some fabric paint and a template is all we need. Here is the picture.

Condition:- You bought a house today for 20 lakh,10 years from now if you sell the house you get 40 Lakh. Premise:- A box of thing which you could have bought today for 20 lakh, 10 years from now you will buy the same box for 50 lakh. The question:- Did you make a profit in selling the house? The condition and the premise are interrelated and in order to answer the question you have to relate both of them If you understand this question and can get the right answer you will understand the meaning of inflation which is a world wide situation now.  One can make the right decision while investing money on assets or just simple buying and selling things in day-to-day life. Answer:- You made a loss in selling your house. Why? you ask; It is because of inflation.In  layman's terms purchasing power of money is called inflation.The value of money has gone down and so purchasing power has also gone down. What you could have bought for 20 lakh 10 years ago  you can buy i...

After two years of long gap I am again going to India to see my aging parents.But this year things are not the same.I don't feel the happiness and the excitement at all.As the day of departure is coming closer ,my heart is sinking deeper and deeper. I have no excitement for searching for appropriate gifts for everyone, or buying cloths and shoes for our travel or making lists of things I have to buy from India.None of those.It feels like lifeless,listless, enthusiasm less .I wish the time stops and everything remain the same.I want the time to become still, because in this time I can still feel that my parents are alive,I can talk to them,I can talk to my mother when ever I want,day or night.She is going through memory loss but at least she remembers me and able to  recall every moment we have spent together. Being born as the youngest sibling can be so frustrating and mentally agonizing,this thought never crossed my mind.I was rather happy that I am the youngest.But now that a...

No one in this world is without stress.Even small kids have stress ,just that their stress type does not fall in the category of stress from our standards.Also kids have their fun ways to cope up with stress which becomes more like an amusement and entertaining bussiness  to us. For me when ever I am in stress I always turn to watching cooking shows or stitching. Stitching is not always possible because you can not just randomly stitch.You have to plan ahead ,design ,get materials etc-etc. On the other hand with you tube, watching cooking shows is very easy and conveniently assessable.There are professional cooking shows and also home cooks and bakers who as a hobby upload their cooking videos .I like both of them .As for me both are stress reliever.When I am under pressure or getting bored or when I am exercising The only thing I do is watch cooking videos.I forget my worries and time flies just like that.I can exercise for hours watching these videos. The shows don't necess...

Recently my husband bought a car for me.It is 2018 Toyota Camry.I love my car ,everything about it.The color,the interior the design ,the comfort,the safety and above all the feeling when I am driving. One thing I did not like was the sun visor.Since the height of the car is about 1 inch smaller than the older model ,I have also come down 1 inch  in my seat. Since I am only 5 feet tall the length of the sun visor is not enough for me.Every morning when I go to drop off my kids to school the bright sun and its almighty glare is right on my eyes. I can not see a thing even with my powerful sunglasses. That makes the driving so scary .Same thing would happen every evening when I had to drive to pick up kids from school.That bright glare was right in front of me making it impossible to drive.So all the time I would hold the steering wheel with one hand and use my other hand to shade my eyes. I searched up a lot ,asked around people but no one gave  me a right solution which...

Few days back I was standing outside the school's gate to pick up my daughters.An Indian grandfather approached me and started talking to me.He was standing with his grandson. He just asked me if I live near by the school and then he explained to me his home address.Until then I had no idea he was in so much grief and pain.His face was still very calm and smiling. After few seconds he asked  if it is possible for me to pick and drop off his grandson for few days as his son is sick and had surgery.I thought that it is just for 4-5 days and his house was on my way,so it wont be any trouble for me to pick-up and drop-off his grandson.I asked him for his phone number and home address.As we were talking his son came walking to me very clumsily.With in few seconds I found out that this is the son who just had surgery and is unable to walk properly but still had to drop-off and pick-up his son. I was still not aware of the painful condition the whole family is going through.Then as t...

I feel very sad today.Not that other days I am very happy.Yesterday I got the score card of COGAT test my both daughters took. The younger daughter did ok, still not in the 97 percentile.The older one did really bad ,especially in math.At grade 1 and grade  4 the tests will be so difficult ,I have no idea.When they took the tests, I thought they would pass with flying colors.I was so wrong. Most of it was my fault.I just made them take the test without making them prepare for it at all.They had no exposure to the  kind of questions they were asked in the test.It was not the academic testing.It was more of critical thinking ,quantitative analysis and verbal analogy tests. They just got one day notice and next day  they were taking tests.I should not have done it .I regret now ,because I am judging their ability based on some thing I have not prepared them for.And now being a human being I can not stop my self from thinking that how poorly they did in the test.That th...