Five Hygiene Habits for Kids !!

• Hand Wash

Believe it or not, about 80% infections are spread only by hands !  So does that mean, if we all wash our hands regularly, we can avoid those 80% of infections? Well, logically yes. But we all know it’s impossible. Reason being the several other modes of transmission of any infection. Since infection by and large is by virus or bacterias and to some extent fungi, they can be washed off by a good soap and water. Kids, if left alone, like mine, they take a drop of liquid soap and even without completely scrubbing the palms, run their hands under the water and scoot off with incomplete washing. I know, it’s not always possible, whenever they are back from outside the house, I make sure I wash their hands myself. Then dry their hands thoroughly with a clean towel.

A hand that is not dried completely, will catch more germs as compared to a dry hand !

• Regular Warm Bath

Bathing is an obvious process to keep the kids clean. But, when to give bath is something we moms do not think about much ….read more…

Natural multivitamins – made at home!

Let me warn any one reading this post at the onset.

This experiment is my own brain child and has not been scientifically tested or proven. But since I value my logic and gut feeling a lot, I find it 100% safe and it’s efficacy too is excellent.

So what is the experiment?

Well, this was three months back when, the swine flu fear groped all of us. I do not much believe in the multivitamins available in the market, especially after a doctor friend explained to me about the negligent tiny quantity that is present in each tablet.

But being a mother, not boosting my kids with supplements was also not easy on me. So I kept thinking of how my kids can get unadulterated multivitamins. And when it’s anything to do with respect to my kids, all my six senses are at their peak alertness!:)

The first sure shot food that improves immunity is … read more…

How to test purity of Milk at home- Chitale, Amul Failed !

I am disgusted !

I feel guilty and wish I had listened to my elder son’s plea that he did not like the taste of the milk. I would coax him with all kinds of stories. But even though he has stopped drinking milk since last one and half years now, my younger son loves to drink only milk !

I wish I had done this simple test easlier which I do now, then all my guilt would have gone.

I wanted to make paneer out of the excess milk I had at home. It was Amul toned milk. This is 4 days back story!
I first added half lemon juice, but there was no change in the milk. Then added one tablespoon of lemoneez. Still nothing happened. Another two table spoon of lemoneez and the milk refused to curdle!

I was very shocked. I called my husband from another room. Discussed with him and that took around 5 more minutes. When we reached back to the kitchen, the milk had changed its consistency only where lemoneez was added. It looked like a rubbery white lump. So I mixed the whole thing in the milk with a spoon and gave a vigourous stir. And guess what, there was no change in the rest of the milk!

Next I tried the same testing with Chitale milk. That too refused to curdle back !

The last brand I tested was Katraj. Thankfully, read more…

I wish anyone  reading this page, tries it randomly if not everyday, to drink pure milk and not the poisioned, adultrated milk.

Teaching Virus and Vaccines to 4 -6 yr old !!!!!

Thanks to swine flu, I have loads of information that I can share with my kids as they are 24X7 at home !!!!

They are always fighting for the same stuff, be it the TV remote or the laptop, or their transformers or even the same set of crayons !!!

So my younger son suggested that we goto Mc Donald’s. Before I could answer, my older one told the younger one that because of swine flu its closed down. Then I found him showing the McDonald’s empty entrance from our window.

This is how their conversation went.

” There are swine flu’s there so we can not goto the Mc Donald’s today.”

“Bhaiya if we go there , swine flu will kill us?”

“yes”

“What if we wear our jacket and then go and kill the swine flu, then we can go to McD.”

“Yes we can try that. Mumma is superwoman, we will send her there at night. She will kill all the swine flu.”

“ok, come lets ask mom.”

“Mumma will you go tonight and kill the swine flu in the McDonald, you can wear your special dress.”

” Ok, I will have to first get one special injection, which will make me stronger, then I can go and fight all the swine flu virus.”

“Do you know what is a virus?”

“yes, friends of bacteria!”

“why should we be scared of virus?”

“Because they make us sick.”

“Where do they live?”

“They live in dirty places.”

“How do they come to us?”

“They come to us through cold water, nosey, cough, sneeze and dirty hands, mouth and legs.”

“And also if we do not brush our teeth.”

“What do the virus do in your body?”

“They kill our body parts.”

“How do we kill virus.”

“By injection and medicines.”

“Good”

“Do you know how that injection is made?”

“No”

“The doctor uncle takes out little blood from a person who has fever because of the swine flu virus.”

“One bucket?”

“No, one small syringe”

“Then that blood is mixed with lots of water”

“To bathe the virus”

“No, to make it weak”

“Then the doctor takes little virus-water that has some weak swine flu virus and puts it in your body through an injection.”

“Ok”

“When our body police sees one weak virus, they make more police who have to fight this weak swine flu virus. They wear caps too. And all cap has swine flu police written on them !”

“wow”

“Then whenever any strong swine flu virus comes inside your body, all the police with swine flu cap jump and kill the virus !”

“Yippy !!!”

Why Eat Curds before Exams / Interviews !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exam times for kids are stressful, not just for the kids but more for the moms !!!

I remember my mom used to be ready with a bowl of homemade curds mixed with sugar while I was getting ready to leave the home for any of my exams.

I used to wonder why curds with sugar was so important, but never refused it as it used to part of the Prasad offered to the goddess Saraswati. Mum is very religious, so I would just gulp the yummy curds and scoot off.

But that need to know WHY behind any ritual / act had to be satisfied.

And guess what, I got hold of that real reason just this morning when I was forwarded an article on foods for brain by my SIL.

I am copy pasting the portion that is mentioned in the book  “Eat this, Not that “ by David ZincZenko  !!!!! The unbolded paragraph is an extract for the above mentioned book.

It clearly solves the curiosity as to why curds is so important just before doing anything stressful or important!

CURDS CALMS us down !!!!

 

Nuts also have the similar calming effect, to be consumed before any stressful activity !

Thanks MOM, now I know why all the MOMs do just the right thing, knowingly or not.

 

TO CALM DOWN
Eat This!: LOW-FAT YOGURT OR MIXED NUTS

Scientists in Slovakia gave people 3 grams each of two amino acids—lysine and arginine—or a placebo, and asked them to deliver a speech. Blood measurements of stress hormones revealed that the amino acid-fortified guys were half as anxious during and after the speech as those who took the placebo. Yogurt is one of the best food sources of lysine; nuts pack loads of arginine.

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The ant and the juice !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My elder son is only 5.5 yrs and is such a cleanliness freak that I wonder why did I ever have to tell him about washing up !

 

Yesterday I gave him  a glass of chilled orange tang. He looked inside the glass, only to find a small red ant floating in the juice. He promptly showed to me the ant in his juice. I dipped a finger and took the ant out, then gave back the glass to him.

He again looked inside the glass but returned it back saying that the juice was dirty now. I knew this would happen so was prepared for the same. So I  told him that the ant is very tiny and now its out of his glass, so he can drink it off.

But my son being my son, refused to digest this simple act that removal of the ant out of the glass meant his juice was now clean enough. He had his reason too. He told me what I normally tell my kids once they are back from outside in the home.  He said ” Mamma ! this ant must have been walking out side without any shoes. So when it came and got into my juice glass, all the dirt from its legs have washed into the juice ! So all the juice is now dirty too!!!!!”

Needless to say , I had no answer but to make another fresh glass of juice for him

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My Kids and food !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My babies made my day yesterday. I normally have to sit one hour for each meal with both the kiddos every day. There are days when I am sitting patiently, telling them stories or they telling me stories. There are days when I am screaming like a witch at them, especially when there is vegetarian food on the menu.

My kids think food means chicken, mutton, fish, prawns or eggs.  Paneer is also acceptable by the young HHs. The days I make veggies only, I have to make sure I have no meeting lined up, no workshop to attend or take and definitely no calls. I am shouting screaming threatening for an hour ! At the end I do manage to make them eat what I wish but at the cost of their lov for me and my guilt towards them !

But today was different.

My friend Arun, forwarded a mail to me. I had tears in my eyes watching a kid eat from the garbage ! There was another picture of a kid drinking water along with a dog from the same puddle !

I thought of making a positive impact and use of this mail by telling a story .  So once we were back from school, my kids one 5 yr old another 3.5 yr were too eager to hear and see the picture of the boy who did not eat food ! And the kid who threw food and wasted water.

After watching the powerpoint presentation, I could see my kids watching seriously, with their expression changing. They felt sad and my elder one was convinced that no one should throw food or water, and that he will not trouble his mom any longer. I don’t know how long it will last.

At the dinner time, I was hoping to see the effect of the mail on my kids eating habit and change .

My elder son ate his food with one coaxing. I was mighty pleased and glad that the expectant result was seen.

But I was not prepared for the effect on my younger kid !

He ate a bite and threw away the whole food into the dustbin !  Shocked and angry, I was upset that my younger son was so not sensitive ! Anyways, I had to question him and make him understand the effect of bad deed done by him. So I called him and made him sit with me. We call this type of sessions as “Talk Time”, where they have to talk out their problems and anything in their minds, without me judging them! 

So I asked him the reason for his throwing away the food into the garbage bin! He answered, ” Mumma ! I threw away all the food, so that read more….