Parenting Lessons from the Pros

Are you a parent or going to be a parent in the future? Or just someone that is bored and has nothing better to do? If so then definitely watch these videos for insights into motherhood, fatherhood and games to teach your children. Also thrown in the end are tips for children to make sure they get their way. The videos are by pros who really know what they do! ;-) Must watch videos. Pass these on to your friends as well.

Fatherhood Tips & Tricks


Motherhood - How to behave like a proper mother


Games for "Kids"



Childhood Tips

Clinical Trials

First let me say I am not expert on clinical trials and far from it. In fact this post is not anything about clinical trials. It is a comparison of life with clinical trials. It just came to me as a random thought so here I am blogging about it.

Clinical trials are consisted of several experiments and you never know how they are going to turn out. You have an aim and a hypothesis and often expect and want to recieve the results which support the hypothesis. However you know there is an element of risk involved and need to take into consideration all the variables.

Life is very similar to this. You take risks and never know how they are going to turn out. Not only risks, but decisions (which have an element of risk involved). The decisions can be compared to the experiments and life the clinical trials. You never know if you are ever going to achieve your goal or find out the meaning, but you keep experimenting to find what works best.

Some examples:

• Cosmetics used by women (Women generally have many many cosmetics and beauty products, because they are always trying to find the best one which suits them)
• Food, you try to find the food you like and which doesn't give you allergic reactions until you are satisfied with what you eat.
• Clothing, the way you dress you constantly experiment with different styles until you find the one you are comfortable with.
• Minor or major decisions, you take the risk and make a decision not knowing what the outcome will be, aim at something, having a hypothesis as to what may happen and hopefully getting the results you wanted.

Certain choices you make or decisions you take are very important and play a major part. To an extent you have to experiment and step out of your comfort if indeed you have not found the thing that makes you most comfortable or happy. You can never be certain of anything so you make a lot of assumptions and presumptions (hypothesis) and it can more than easily be that they are incorrect. However these assumptions and presumptions come from evidence you have accumulated through previous experiments or from common knowledge. Know your variables and the possibilities.

Moral of the blabbering: Be careful and try to make the most well-educated decisions and don't be afraid to experiment, ther may be failures but success is sure to follow as everything teaches you a lesson. Expect the unexpected!

Kids!

Kids are hilarious... Read the stories below and have a great laugh!

Story 1
There is a kid who is always the first to be associated with the words such as dumb, stupid, dull, etc etc. Lets call her Kid A. In the school the kids always play a Maths game where you have rounds and the answers to basic arithmetic have to be given. Kid A never won any rounds, let alone the first and easiest round. Therefore the whole class sympathized with Kid A and always felt bad for her (mind you Kid A never felt bad about it).

Now comes Kid B, along with his gang Kid B decides that there must be a solution to the problem and a solution he did find! Kid B told the teacher the plan (yes the teacher was in on the "plan"). So as set up the game started Kid A vs Kid B. The question was what is 5 times 6 to which Kid B purposefully answered 1 and hence the winner was Kid A. A bright smile came on her face as she was told she won and as the whole class errupted into claps and cheers.

Story 2
A kid was asked to write an impromptu 3 minute oral about school. For this the kid wrote about school as if it were a prison. Then the kid was narrating his story to his elders. Then one of the elders said, "do you realise if you had been selected to narrate your oral you would have got into trouble and people don't usually appreciate such honesty?" To this he replied with a sigh I know sort of attitude, "Yeah I know I know, they would want me to say school is heaven and the teachers are angels!"

Don't kids just say the darndest things? Hilarious seriously! I will try to get my hands on the written oral and post it on my blog as well.

Aaaarrrggghhh Facebook!

Facebook totally freaks me out.

Why you ask? Well its because your friends would appear on your list one day and then totally disappear the next. Then when you think they are totally gone, they are back. Today I was using a facebook application to buy friends and then all of a sudden there was a friends name, with no picture. I was rather confused, who was this friend who suddenly appears in my own friends list? Then I clicked on it to find that it was a friend who was back on facebook after almost 50 years. Well alright 5 months would be more accurate, still a long time though.

I agree its a good idea to be able to deactivate and reactivate your account. But perhaps some notification should be sent to your friends to let them know about their disappearing act. I know for one of my friends they wanted to delete a certain person so they looked for them in their list and they weren't there, so obviously the person was not there. Only then did they find out later that this person was using this feature of facebook to stalk this person, ever so secretively! Then luckily when both the parties were online she was able to delete and block this person.

Also another odd thing with these social networking sites. I think of features which would make them better and somehow the next day itself they are there on the sites in full functionality just as I wanted them. ***sigh*** If only my wishes in life would be granted the same way as my wishes for social networking sites.

The Vanishing Act

Hey all,

I know its been almost a decade since I've blogged (ok slight exaggeration there). Did I vanish? Not completely, I'm still here. In the time I've been away so many topics to blog have come into my mind while I am not at the computer and usually just before I am going to sleep. Then next day when I am at the computer I have a billion other stuff to do (another "slight" exaggeration) and the topics completely just disappear. Those things must be in the sub-conscious mind of mine and waiting to be written to just vanish out of my mind and onto the net once and for all.

Yes thats what happens to me. If I write or am asked to talk about something, soon after the topic totally vanishes out of my head. It becomes like I never knew about the topic and have just transferred all of my knowledge about that topic onto others. I promise this is a true story. In high school, chemistry (one of my not so favorite subjects) I knew I understood the subject. That was proven as I used to teach others in the class all the concepts. Yet when it came to tests or exams for some odd reason exactly what I taught my friends would have disappeared out of my head.

However I would know very well that just the other day I had clearly explained every nuance about that particular topic to my friends and in the end they would end up getting full marks in those sections whereas me, half if I was lucky. How is this possible? Beats me! I have not heard of anyone else having this problem and it seems rather bizarre because I know for sure the knowledge used to be there. Perhaps I just suppress it deep deep deep down in my mind, making it too difficult to find when I am under pressure. Can anyone think of any other logical explanations for this? Or has anyone had this happen to them? Bizarre is all I can say!

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I'm a survivor!

When I was much younger, I guess until the age of 12 mainly I had some very very strange views! Read and be prepared to probably ROTFL!

Oddity?

1) I used to try to limit the amount of water I took.
2) I used to always eat less and be able to go for a long time without eating.
3) I would always have cold showers.

Why?

1) So just in case I was faced in a situation where, there was a scarcity for water I was able to survive!
2) This was for a similar reason to the above, in case there was a situation where no food was available or to “try” fasting!
3) To get used to cold water!

Imagined Scenario?

1) I used to always somehow imagine myself having to face a situation in a desert.
2) (a) Fasting (inspired by hindi movies and all the Karva Choth scenes)
(b) In case we suddenly became poor and there was no food or a lack of.
(c) In case a tornado or some natural calamity or war hit and we had to go into lock down without much food.
(d) general scarcity of food.
3) (a) In case I was having a hot shower and the water turned cold (prevention is better than cure ;-) )
(b) In case I somehow fell into a cold body of water (inspiration TITANIC)
(c) In case I was stranded somewhere where there was no option but to bathe in cold cold water.
(d) This scenario is crazier than most of the others, well I used to feel that the hot water was totally just scalding my scalp, even if it was mild, whereas I used to feel that cold water was able to moisturise somehow! Hmmm.. LOL!

These are just a few... Many many more are there! But not enough time to write all of them! Hehe...