Indian Married girl in America

Christmas in western countries are not just a day of celebration, it is a season of joy. I was blessed to see their enjoyments in the form of decorations. Most of the people not just decorated inside the house, many has decorated at the front of the house, mainly with lights, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. There are many other houses with themes, cartoon characters and unique decorative items. I found everything attractive. The surprising and different thing, I found among certain group of people is their unity. Yes, people in same street/ area together made their independent decorations into an event by unity. I happened to see such street decorations in  Lubao Avenue and Oxnard Street of Woodlandhills, California. The home owners in this street collectively decided to decorate their houses for visitors and turns their street into a candy cane lane. This has been followed as a tradition by these street people since 1952. People of Woodland Hills are excited to drive through or w

#copy-paste #fbpost I generally don't copy paste in my blog,but doing it now for a reason. The reason is... It is IMPORTANT "'' Its not just A forward but a subtle message for us parents .... Time to think n react accordingly... Few months ago I asked these two questions to my students Ten things you want your parents to stop doing  and.... Five things you want your parents to start doing I got some interesting responses Things I want my parents to stop doing: ---Stop comparing my life with your childhood. Things were really different back then, so stop comparing. ---Stop using these words and phrases: use your brain, are you deaf? Can't you see? Useless, careless, good for nothing....etc.... ---stop showing off my skills. I don't want to dance in front of your friends. I don't like to do that. Why do you force me to sing/ dance or show my art work to our relatives or friends? ---Can you speak softly? I'm tired to hear you shout, every d

A day out with kids should be fun filled and never tiring one. There is always a difficulty in choosing a destination that makes both parents and kids enthusiastic in one spot. Fun box gives a solution to it. It is well designed and executed to entertain both adults and kids. It has 24 separations within the box(room). Each are designed with vibrant colors and themes to lift your fun mood and impulse you to give crazy poses. Yes, Fun box is the best place to freeze the crazy you in photos. What is in Fun box? Listing out the features of Fun box may affect the surprise that you get at the time of visit. Still, I would like tell some highlights that may give you hope on visiting this place. The attenders greet you into the Fun box with warm welcome and an instruction note. (Good to follow, what they say). The fun begins with the teddy bear tunnel, becomes colorful with giant crayons, attracts you more when you walk through a hanging garden and stuns you with giant emojis etc. Fun bo

Hi everyone... Hope all r happily ending your weekend. I love to read books, they are more like travelling to different world. I found something special while reading books to my kids. It gave a new experience and satisfaction of travelling together with kids in the journey of books. Now it's time to extend the joy of reading with more kids. As I already discussed with few of you, I will take your kids to a fantasy world in this Christmas holidays, by reading Harry Potter to them. The book has 17 chapters, I will read 2 per day. So it is a 10 days program. When and where? I'm gonna start the book journey from my home on tomorrow(12/17) at 3.30pm. Welcome home with kids. Let this sessions add everlasting memories to mom and kids. My review on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone book. ( click here )

There was a question arrived in a discussion forum of other educational site. It is questioned, " How long do we stick to "Baaba black sheep"?"  So the overall discussion is around the craze for giving importance to English in early education compared to our mother tongue. The following is my reply and I post it in my blog too, because, this is the same thought that runs in my mind in recent times.  "This topic is very interesting and of course, at the right phase of my life,I come across this discussion. My kids are below 5 years old and we reside in USA. Obviously, learning mother tongue from school is impossible here.  As I strongly believe that the language is the root to a culture, I made sure that my kids are capable of communicating in native language with no difficulty. Even before joining them in school, I teach them Tamil alphabets.  Even at their TV time, I add Tamil rhymes to their playlist.To my surprise, there are awesome Tamil rhymes co