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Wish every kid on the planet a happy children’s day! 🙂

Experienced the gist of this poignant song… though in a lighter way, this morning…

When I first saw this video tweeted by @charityfocus, I wondered how sensible these children are. But then I had to remind myself from my own experience interacting with kids, that any child can be so, as long as they’re treated with respect. This video is really the perfect living world example of the earlier […]

There is a children’s program I came across by chance while looking for something for my son. The “Word on the street” is “practice”. Happened to find the video online as well. They define practice as “practice means you try something again and again to learn how to do it better“ Whatever we practice, its […]

I’ve heard this song countless times over the years. But somehow after my three day workshop for chilren’s camps last weekend, it makes more sense than ever. Here are the lyrics:

Finally catching up with a long-procrastinated tag by Destination Infinity for Kannada… This was a real fun excercise I did along with my mom… hope you enjoy these Kannada song selection! 🙂

Today I received a handwritten letter. Its been a long time since I got a handwritten letter in the mail, many years (I don’t even remember when the last time was!) So it was a good surprise to find one today. The contents had a photo of a little girl, and a copy of her […]

Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas. Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in… only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush. first paint […]

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