Open Ended Toys!

🧸 Open ended Toys!

🍴 I recently learned about these and love the whole science behind it. These toys have taught me lessons as a parent that I wouldn't have practiced otherwise.

🧸 Best part of open ended toys is no set up is required. These toys dont have any batteries, they dont light up or make any noise. These types of toys allow the child be the explorer and make the play happen. There is no right or wrong way to play with these toys. It is completely on your child's imagination.

🍴The hardest thing for me is to be patient and not interrupt Krish's play and provide him direction while he is playing with his regular toys where certain things need to be done in a certain way. The most important lesson these open ended toys taught me is to TRUST that he can direct his own play.

🧸 Sometimes all we need to really do is take a step back and observe our kids without interjection. Trusting them that they are perfectly capable of deciding and directing their own play and learning.

🍴It needs patience and is very hard, but it is definitely worth the end results.

🧸 I gave Krish these masking tapes and didnt tell him what to do. I took a back seat and observed him come up with 3-4 different ways he was involved with them and busy for quite sometime.

🍴This is the probably the reason why kitchen utensils are all kids favorite at some point during their toddlerhood. Because they are open ended and kids figure out numerous unique ways to play with them.

🧸 Share what open ended toys/things you have tried with your little ones and give me more ideas to try with Krish.

💜 Thanks to Sejal from @sageness who gave me this inspiration of not interrupting Krish while playing and letting him direct his own play.

Courage is Contagious!

🌟Courage is contagious.
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🌟Today, I took courage to post about my dad whom I have never talk about here. He is our true hero. What we are today is all because of him. I got courage to talk about him from my younger sister @dr_chandniwadhwani and I will post her words. No words can express our gratitude towards life which has given us a second chance
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🌟"June" - a cancer survivor month.
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🌟Dilip Wadhwani - a businessman, working since 45 years, a loving father to his three daughters, a husband to a very strong woman, a commenably courageous man who fought oral cancer in 2011.
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🌟Thanks to his dentist Tashveen Singh, surgeons @drrajivbhatt Rahul Thakkur @dryogeshbhatt who did the surgery and reconstruction for him! A surgery that lasted 10 hours. .
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🌟Not only this but adding years to his life and life to his years 😍
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🌟This is a very sensitive topic..Thanks to @hcg.vadodara , for bringing this out in a beautiful way!! Yes, the struggle after the surgery is real. It's an everyday fight to be able to talk, breathe, laugh, eat, drink, cough, sneeze, yawn, brush.. everything! More so after the oral surgeries..we need to be patient to them and provide a helping ear to them!
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🌟Writing this post is incomplete without mentioning an extraordinary person who is little in age than my dad, yet too big in her courage and strength Raina Joshi @raina.joshi - Fighter of cancer!! who set a never-ending example of hope and strength for us and our family in these hard times.
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🌟There is definitely the existence of a supernatural power that gave immense courage to my mom to handle this situation and many thanks to our entire family, extended family who have been with us through the thick and thin of this every single day. 

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🌟 Happy Father’s Day, each day, every day 🙏

2020 Quarantine come back!

Hello everyone, Hope you are doing well. It's been a very long time I have been away from blogging. Time to come back :)  

This is an art we did together with our little one while shelter in place 2020.