That Which Matters
Ephemeral thoughts on eternal ideas
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Baptism of a Boy Miss!
The buildings were the same. So were some of the faces. The Nagalingam tree with its deliciously fragrant flowers, the majestic banyan tree and the large neem tree guarding the slide near junior school were all reassuring memories. It seemed as if things had not changed much, that this was the same place where I […]
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101 Conversations with My Daughter
At the breakfast table A: M, we are going to have a surprise in 3 months. M (mouth wide open): “What surprise?” A: A baby is going to be born. M: Yeaaaaa! A: The surprise is that we don’t know if it will be a boy or a girl. We will know only after it […]
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Response to ‘The Art of Parenting’
This is a response to the article titled The Art of Parenting by Raji Swaminathan, which appeared in Issue 15 of the Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools. As I read the article, I felt the impulse to relate it to my life’s particulars, and hence this rather disjointed response. **** While on the face of […]
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Daily Parenting: More Montessori…
Montessori speaks of three external circumstances that may constitute the principles of her method of education: 1. Suitable environment 2. Humility in the teacher 3. Scientific material At first glance, it seems that it is possible to create these at home as well. The environment can be pleasant and ‘child-friendly’, in that things are accessible […]
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Daily Parenting: May Contain Nuts
Read a wonderful book a couple of months ago – May Contain Nuts. A must read for all parents I think – a novel set in England about extreme parenting. Though some of it was TOO EXTREME to be realistic, I paused often to recognise similar patterns of thought I had. It was also a […]
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Daily Parenting: Magic of Shadows
M discovered her shadow a couple of days ago. What joy! It grows long, it grows short, you cannot step on it and it won’t leave you alone. It is there, and now it is not. I loved chasing my shadow as a child – the game was to try and detach from it – […]
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Daily Parenting: Montessori Comes Our Way
So here I am – a good year and a half later to renew the Daily Parenting blog! M has started school – actually today is the last day of her school term – she started school a couple of months ago. Montessori. Did not realise what Montessori was all about until M joined the […]
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Daily Parenting: The First Entry
So here I am, starting a blog. Having taught about them at ACJ for a while I have finally created one for myself. With an internet connection that is barely faster than modem speed, I never thought I would start a blog. But here I am. In the same week that I have joined Facebook […]
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Fathers and Daily Parenting
The article “Daddy Cool” (The Hindu, 1 June 2013) spoke of the significant role of fathers in the upbringing of children. It mentioned the emergence in recent years, especially in western countries, of stay at home dads who look to be equal partners in parenting. As a father who has worked from home for eight […]
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DNS: The end (10/10)
18 Jul 1999 Hi, It has been a long time since I have written. Much has happened here in the meantime. As I mentioned in one of my previous emails long ago, I was having difficulty with the approach of this institution. Over the past year I have tried to work around the difficulties but […]