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Winter Activity Camp Kalyaninagar Pune Superindiankid.com Kids, Toddlers, Teens

Posted by madhuriesingh on December 7, 2010

Winter Camp Kalyaninagar Pune Superindiankid.com

10 days winter/ Christmas camp for your kids for Rs 975/-only.

Time Slots: 10 am to 11 am, 11:00 am to 12:00noon, 5:00pm to 6:00pm

Date: Starts from 13th December to 15th January 2011. (National holidays and  Sat/Sun off)

Age 2-5 years and Age 5-10 years.

Painting, Craft, Dance, Music, Gymnastics, Basketball, Virtual Baseball, Virtual Car racing, Virtual Judo, Virtual Table Tennis, Virtual Bowling, Virtual Skating, Virtual Archery.

Enroll early to get a free intelligence assessment of your kid.

Visit www.superindiankid.com

Call 9890036569

Venue: Kalyaninagar, behind Bishops schools, Pune.

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St Mary’s Pune – Diwali Vacation, Christmas Holidays, NewYear 2010 School reopen.

Posted by madhuriesingh on September 29, 2009

St Mary’s Pune – Diwali Vacation, Christmas Holidays, NewYear 2010 School reopen.


St Mary’s School, Pune will be working on all Saturdays upto the Diwali vacation for Girls and Boys sections.

Half Yearly exam will commence on the 10th Oct 2009.

St Mary’s School will close on 14th October 2009 as scheduled, but will re-open on read more…

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How to Handle Complains from School, Society, Friends?

Posted by madhuriesingh on September 19, 2009

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Complaints are very odd situation for any mom, especially when it’s about our own kids ! 😦

I am not going into the thesis of handling complaints as I believe it’s differently handled with different situations. What works for one school may not apply to another school. So the best way is to be open, be guided by the one’s own set of values and never attempt to please others or reprimand your kid in front of others to satisfy them.

I had a parent who came up with a silly complaint about my son telling her daughter, that he does not like to play with girls!

Now, what do I tell her?  So I kept quiet and told her I will handle this later with my son who is only 4.5yr old. 🙂 I did ask him the reason as to why he said so to her daughter. He answered ,” It’s because she not play what I want to play!”.

So, what goes in a child’s brain is something we will not know unless we discuss it with them. Hence no point reacting when someone comes with a complaint about my kid.

I am not one of those parents who do not think about the behaviour of the kids in public or private.

A few months back my elder son started crying whenever he had to get ready and go to the school! He is one child who loves to study. So when for a week he did not go happily to his school, I tried to find out his problem click here to read more.

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Five Hygiene Habits for Kids !!

Posted by madhuriesingh on September 16, 2009

  • 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…

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Sanskruti, Pune – The Ethnic Getaway for Kids!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 30, 2009

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A few months back my school mate arrived home with her daughter from Bangalore.
It’s fun to see one’s school mate after a few years married, with changed views about the world, with profession that was never ever imagined and so on.

But obviously, the best is always to meet their kids. 🙂

My friend came to Pune with her daughter who is older to my sons. So she instantly became their didi.
My sons were enjoying making tea and pakoras with their new didi :), which we had to sip, eat and also made sure that we praised their imaginary food. That’s time I realised, how I might be irritating my hubby by asking him, how was the food even before he swallowed the first bite :P.

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With any extra kid in the house, even a normal day becomes very tiring, somehow. So we decided to go out in the evening to some place where the kids can play around freely, eat happily and also just be relaxed.

Whenever we go out, my first intention is to have a gala time. No hassling for food or toilet!
Since we had a good number of hours to spend, I decided upon Sanskruti. It’s my first choice whenever anyone comes to Pune from abroad.

Sanskruti is little away from Hadapsar with very spacious location, ethnically decorated and designed. The theme is Rajesthani folk look and feel. It’s a peaceful place to hang around with kids and friends.

Lovely parking space too so never go by an auto rickshaw as finding one back home will be a nightmare!

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Birthday Return Gifts for Kids upto 6 years!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 26, 2009

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Birthday Return gifts are on my hate list.

I abhor whoever came up with this idea. It’s more like a bribe to make your kids’ friends come to the party !
We teach kids from the very tender age what is greediness, bribing and teach them how to spend money on what is not important at such an early age!

We teach kids how as parents we can be blackmailed into buying what is expensive and beyond our budget as return gifts.
Parents too get into the useless show off mentality, forcing themselves to keep up with the trends, lest they be labelled stingy.

In my opinion when giving a birthday party, if you do have loads of money to spare, do give something valuable and usable as a thank you gift. I am gonna do away with this word RETURN GIFT and make it Thank You gift. At least that way we teach our kids that they are lucky to have friends who share their happy moments and promise to share the sad moments too.

SO if it’s a Thank You gift, that your child must give, let it be so.

Some really valuable Thank You gifts are ;
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Birthday Party Place for Kids in Pune!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 23, 2009

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Birthday Parties are very important for all kids.
Now a days kids don’t just want to have the cake and eat it too. They want to call as many friends and send away loads of return gifts too. They want junk food for sure in their birthday party.

I have given my kids’ first birthday party at The Corinthian’s Club. This is an awsome place with mouth watering food. I still remember their ‘Stuffed Button Mushroom” :). Located at the NIBM road, Pune, it’s a mini replica of a Roman Palace. There are humungus statues of romans, lovely pool side area. We chose the large banquet hall as the entire office people and friends were invited. That time I had arranged for a magician and a cartoon character with loads of ballons in the hall. Our friends still remember that birthday party. 🙂

The second time too we chose The Corianthian Club for my second son’s birthday party. Obviously it was again a big hit. The banquets are normally free if you place food order with them. It comes to Rs 500/- 700/- per head with drinks extra.

Now obviously every year its not possible to spend such huge amounts on a birthday party. Now I have come up with an alternate year celebration of birthday parties.

One year if the elder one’s birthday is celebrated outside, that year the younger one’s will be celebrated at home.
Though of late it’s more convenient to celebrate the birthday parties out side in a place that is equipped for the same.

We have had lovely times at Pizza Corner thrice. They used to have a kiddies room, full of small colourful balls. The kids would go there and spend hours leaving us adults to talk in peace :). Pizza Corner closed down at Koregaon Park this year.

The other place where we have gone and celebrated birthday party is the Empress Garden. That was a major hit with kids and parents as the parents were happy to see their kids enjoying themselves on several swings, slides etc.

Some of the other places where we have been invited for the Birthday Party celebrations I am listing along with a short review.

  • McDonald : These joints are favourite of all kids if not mothers :). Kids are in love with McDonald’s . Though the food is sub standard, still I find a big smile on any kid’s face with just the mention of the name. There’s McD joints now in any area of Pune you can think of. They have Rs99/- and Rs 120/- package with a Happy meal and a return gift (lousy ones at times ) included. Thankfully tha happy meal has a good toy. You must remember that they book only on the weekdays for Birthday Parties.
  • Pizza Hut : These are also cool places for celebrating Birthday Parties. But their package is rather unattractive. A 120/-per child package includes only a birthday cake and the venue with a dance. Food is not included in the package. Also the return gift is as bad as the McD’s . The Pizza hut at Kalyani Nagar, does not have the permission to host any Birthday Parties. So the closest Pizza Hut is at the Kakade Mall, Camp. But the space is small and can be suffocating.
  • Yo-China : This is a great place to celebrate Birthday Parties, even adult’s. They have a spacious area which they cordon off during birthday party, to avoid kids from getting out of the main door. They organize for their own magician, tatto, hair braiding and decorations. The package is Rs 99-/ head to Rs 120/- head. They have lovely chinese food and yummy starters with cold drinks too. I have always had lovely time there.
  • KFC : They suck ! Please avoid it for birthday parties. They have staff that keeps changing every week. They do not have any birthday pacakge. They made me cry when I hosted a birthday party there. They offered me a package of Rs 99/- which included a tiny burger, an icecream, french fries and cold drink. They promised to give ice cream, but the their softy machine broke down! They replaced it with a five star! 😦 . They had such a tiny burger that the kids were hungry. So I had to reorder burgers. They forgot to arrange for any decorations or a magician, even though they billed me for that. Well , apparently, I deducted for the icecream but was too bugged with them that didn’t want to see their face any longer. There was no music and the door to the hall was broken. I had tough time trying to keep the kids in the hall and not get wet in the rains. It was a nightmare for me. Thanks to my friends Ayesha and Sarika who along with my hubby jumped in to manage the scene.
  • I think the from next time will book my society club house at Lunkad Sky Lounge, which is a lovely place and arrange for a caterer.
  • Another good and economical way of celebrating Birthday Parties are by arranging at home terrace or balcony or the living room. I personally avoid this, as I don’t wish to see my living room getting messed up. But I have seen the kids enjoy it at home too. My friends call Pav Bhaaji wala, Dosa wala and Chaat wala who charge per 100 plate. You can order the burgers from the McD or Pizza’as with french fries and cold drinks. The cake also is better managed at home. Disposable plates and glasses are a boon for at home parties. I have a pool table at home, which the kids go crazy playing. But there are loads of other birthday party games that one can organize. You can call the magician and tatto guy at home too. You can have music as per your choice. In all if you have help to handle and manage the crowd of kids at home, this option of Birthday Party at home is the most inetresting celebration.
  • Some interesting return gifts for the birthday parties are set of paints, colour crayons, pencils box sets, piggy boxes, key chains, cartoon cups, books, cds, games and masks. I wish we could do away with the return gift idea completely. Sometimes the return gifts are such trash that I wonder what was the need of spending money on them! Big Bazaar, Lifestyle are great places to shop for return gifts if you do not have time. Else Camp area and Laksmi road is great for very economical return gifts.
  • Another great way of celebrating kids birthday party is by celebrating with the less fortunate kids in your local area. We have Preet Mandir, an orphanage. I donate there clothes or goodies there. My kids too love to spend time with them, learning to be sensitive and sharing their toys with them.

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Pune Schools Closed till 30th August – DPS,ST Mary’s,Bishops,Vibgyor..

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 23, 2009

Thankfully all schools will remain closed till the 30th August 2009.
DPS School has decided to open on Monday 24th August, but has cancelled off the monday test.
The following guidelines to be followed by students risking to go to school on 24th august to DPS .


The school will now reopen on Monday, 24th August, 2009.

Second set of Practice Sheets for all classes are available on the school website under SCM Section.

There will be no Weekly Assessment on 24th August, 2009. New dates will be intimated later.

Students to wear masks and carry small bottles of hand sanitizer liquid for maintaining personal hygiene during school hours.

Students must carry clean handkerchiefs.

Students exhibiting flu like symptoms to avoid attending school.

Students to reach their designated bus stops ten minutes early.

Like I had mentioned in my last 2-3 posts, looks like better senses prevails our schools and the governing bodies.

Dear parents, it may seem that everything is cool and things have returned to normal in Pune, but it’s only because the media has been instructed not to continue focusing on the Swine Flu 24 by 7.

So just because you are now not bombarded with continuous updates on the H1N1 flu, do not start to relax. Continue avoiding crowded public places unless very important. Leave your kids in the house or with friend’s if you must visit the malls for grocery etc.

Again a reminder , Swine flu is dangerous to younger kids who have still not strong immunity, and dangerous to people who already have respiratory, pulmonary or any other problems.

You can definitely visit your friends if no one in their house has any kind of flu.
Similarly, your kid’s friends can also visit you.

Make sure the hands and face is washed with soap whenever the kids are back home or before they eat food.

Make them use sanitizers if washing of the hands is not possible. ( Sanitizers should not be overused!)

Those kids who have any kind of flu, must wear a mask and avoid going to their friends place. Call your friend’s before you send your kids to their homes.

Eat healthy nutritious food and drink lots of water.
My kids are freaking out on chicken and chicken soup. Another very healthy complete food is Palak / Spinach soup for vegetarians. Make your kids drink lots of drinks like tang / rasna ( I have not researched them yet ). Make them drink tender coconut if they like it. Do not try to make fruit juice at home or buy juice. Give fresh raw fruits, if you want your kids to get all the nutritions in a fruit.

Be happy and keep your kids happy. I have still not started to send them to any of their extra curricular activities yet. I will start only in the middle of the September month.

Since my intuitions are working in sink with the current situation is Pune with respect to the schools and kids, I will continue to follow it and keep you all updated.

As per my intuition only, I would say 31 August our kids should be ready to go to their schools in a safe and healthy Swine flu free environment. So till then take care and be happy. 🙂

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/schools-in-pune-to-re-open-on-24th-august-2009/

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-all-schools-close-down-in-pune-till-16th-august-2009/

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/swine-flu-precautionary-move-st-marys-school-pune-closes/

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I am a bad mom, are you?

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 18, 2009

Ask my sons between mom or dad who is good or bad?

And within a fraction of a second they will tell you it’s their mom who is BAD :(!

Earlier I used to be hurt. I would get even mad at them and make them sit and understand how I am a good mom. Poor me. 😦

As if they want to know that from ME ! Don’t they have their own judgement?

Now its been a couple of years now since I have given up on making them register that I am a good mom, like their good papa !

But occasionally I itch to find out if any small feeling towards me has changed. 🙂 So, I asked my sons again the same question but in a different way. ( MBA degree has not gone waste :)) And this was while watching the movie “Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic” just after the parents of the four kids pass away in the movie.

First I asked my elder son, making sure the younger one was not around.
I asked him ” What if something like this happened to me, would you like it?”
My elder one is very sensitive and hugged me instantly. Then without looking at me he , ” Thank God papa will be there. But mumma I will not like it without you!” 😦 🙂 Well I was sad and happy.

Then I called my younger son. I asked him the same question.
He said with a big smile, ” Bad mummas should !”.
I asked him why does he think that I am a bad mom.
“Because you scold me, you make me eat food, you put soap on my head, you make me sleep early, you shout when I shout and you love bhaiya more than me ” … Phew !!!

Well this was asking for more than I was prepared ! Meanwhile my elder son had entered into the room again. He said ” If mumma doesn’t scold us, we will become bad boys. And then other people will scold us and hit us when we are alone. And when we grow up like papa, no one will talk to us.” 🙂 Now I bless my son for understanding my role so well.

I really do not know how much was my younger one satisfied by this answer, but he just left to play.
As usual I started looking for him after 8:00 pm in my society. All the watchmen I asked, said he was nowhere to be seen for quite some time! My heart sank !…read more …


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All About Kids, Education, Products and Schools Moms Want to Know!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 16, 2009

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This site is dedicated to all moms and dads.

Parents are like Gods to their kids. Kids look up to parents as their superheroes and emulate every move they observe.

They will copy you when you are aware, but they will surprise or shock you when they mimic things that you wish you had never said or done!

They are innocent bunch of love filled souls who will make you cry with their selfless tiny deeds, bring tears in your eyes with their angelic talks, express unbounded love for you when you least expect !  🙂

Well, there are also days when they will make you cry with their demonic deeds, brings tears in your eyes with their blunt statements or make you look like a fool in front of others especially 😦 🙂 !!!

We try so hard to provide the best for our kids all through the year 24X7.  I read somewhere that Asians are the best researchers and spend their money very judiciously, but when it comes to their kids, they take decisions through their heart only 🙂 . I loved it. But, let’s add to that research NOW a new result.

That ‘New Asian’ parents are very wise and research everything they provide to their kids, including food, medicine, schools, education, entertainment, sports, clothing and even pets. The research is not limited to the cost but goes into the ingredients, actions, side-effects, feel, future benefits and bonds offered by any product they buy. 🙂

This site is my way of doing so for my two beautiful kids. Since they were 5 yrs and 3.5 yrs old when I started posting here, all my posts will grow with them :). I will be providing all the researched data on anything that worries me, along with my honest personal views.

By the good wishes of many parents, this blog has become quite popular and has created it’s own dedicated moms group. I wish the readership grows and provides me with the encouragement to research and write more.

There are honest school reviews, food for kids reviews, teaching things fun ways, product reviews and movie reviews for kids, places to visit in Pune.

Reviews I am working on…

School Reviews

Product4kids Reviews

Teaching-Kids-Fun-Ways

Places4Kids-Pune
Go to my reviews and posts.

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Admission time for DPS, St Mary’s, Vibgyor, Loyolla, Bishops in Pune!!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 14, 2009

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Admission time is a big tensionful time for all parents looking to get their kids admitted to the schools of their choice.

I remember the two years I had tried to get information on the internet , from parents in my neighbourhood and from the websites of the schools!

So this is for those parents trying to get dates of the admission for each school. A lot of hardwork has gone into making this information available with surfing the sites to making calls to the school offices. But even after all that hardwork, there is still a chance of the admission dates being changed by the school authorities. 🙂

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Pune schools closed due to Swine Flu – How to keep kids busy !!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 13, 2009

All schools in Pune will be closed till 19th August 2009, in view of the current spread of the Swine Flu caused by H1N1 virus.

A lot of schools are fumigating their premises.

Both kids from St Mary’s Boys have recovered from the swine flu infection that they got in the last week of July 2009.

A request to all parents.

Keep your kids at home and do not send them to any coaching class, activity class or sports class.

I am allowing my kids to go to their friend’s place by making sure the family has no cold, cough or fever. Similarly my kids friends are also visiting my home. It’s important that kids are able to interact and play in safe environment. I plan activites for all the kids before they reach my home.

Scrabble, Word Ludo (my innovation), online games, good vcds, carrom, chess and story telling are a few good way I am keeping kids around me engaged. It’s still very difficult. 😦

I draw pictures for them and they have to colour these pictures within a time span as neatly as possible.

Another messy activity that they love is cutting aphabets and pictures from old newspaper. Then they have to make a story out of these cut outs.

Another interesting activity that I am planning is mixing the three primary colours to make secondary and tertiary colour right on the paper!

I found a set of very very informative and interesting books which keeps my kids and their friends glued to me for hours. But the only trade off for that is my time.

I would recommend all parents to get this set of books. Its from Time-Life-Warner . I will be publishing a review on it shortly.

There is another fun and engaging game, where like dumb charade, an object is drawn on the back of a kid with only a finger. The kid has to imagine and say the name of the object drawn on his back.

There are many more such avtivites that we mothers can think of and keep the kids busy at home.

If there is any interesting suggestion, you can send it to me or write as a comment.

Happy bonding ! 🙂

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Must visit place for Kids in Pune – Empress Garden !!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on August 9, 2009

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The Empress Garden is my favorite and my kids go gaga with just the mention of it’s name.

Kider Brook, the playschool where my kids were doing their kindergarten, took them to this lovely garden 3 years back. My darling hubby took the responsibility as I had another appointment on that Saturday.

They took a few dry snacks and fruits, though the school was ready with biscuits and cold drinks. ( Three years back I was not aware of the dangers of these aerated soft drinks).

Once back from the garden after 3 hours, my kids kept telling me of the swings and slides they played on, the trees all around, the tiny stream flowing through the garden and the pink candy they ate there !

They took promise from me that I will take them the next weekend again to the Empress Garden.
My hubby was also looking very fresh and happy, after meeting so many teachers obviously 🙂 as all the teachers later told me how sweetly my hubby helped them in managing all the kids and driving a few teachers and kids back to the school.

This garden sounded too good to be true. So I planned the next weekend with just my family.
From the moment I landed in the garden, I was mesmerized by the …. read more…

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Baby Einstein for brain activity !!!!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 22, 2009

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Its 12:30 pm, I have a meeting that is unavoidable and time bound hence cannot be postponed!
My kids already back from summer camp! All energetic and want my 100% attention like always!
SO the best I cud manage is keep the meeting at my house…..don’t like it much (Interruption …kids…phone…maids….door …friends….uff !) But beggars can’t be choosers! …So Multiprocessing is already happening… All are set to work that will leave me undisturbed for 2 hours!(…as if…in my dream huh! ) …………Meeting over, only 2 calls, and one interruption from my elder child to change over from MSEB to Generator …..that’s some achievement …!!!!!

Am I glad? No I am mighty pleased with my POA (plan of action) and its success !
Now the secret of keeping kids silent…not into Mahabharata mode….not into want attention…plus getting them creatively informed in my absence …. it had better be something I completely trust with my kids….( maids ….no way….can’t trust them…not even day care…)
I was looking for something on Amazon.com when I happened to discover this amazing stuff that changed my life pleasantly and brought a lot of peace to my maternal questioning , precisely 5 years back in Mumbai !
It’s called BABY EINSTIEN! A set of educational CDs / DVDs / VCRs. These one hours videos can manage to keep my kids singing , repeating after the voice over, dancing, learning..not fighting,….what a boon for any mother …!Baby Einstein was conceived by a mother who could not find appropriate educational videos in the US market !
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Uncomfortable questions asked by kids !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 16, 2009

Recently I was put in a tight spot by a friend. All thanks to my darling 4.5 year old’s ever so curious and imaginatively exploring mind.

My friend was a little uncomfortable when my son showed interest in her daughter. Like any curious boy he did not want to leave the room when her daughter was changing.
Her hubby scolded my son and asked him to leave the room! My son came home crying with the complaint. But he never mentioned the exact reason but mentioned that he was not allowed to stay in the toy room, ’cause for him it was the toy room that was more important than his daughter! I talked to my son and made him understand that since they were expecting guests, they did not want the toy room to be dirty and so the uncle had scolded him. Which was enough for the innocent little mind. He left happily to play again. I too forgot the incident as it was a no-brainer.

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DPS MANAGEMENT is Excellent !!!

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 7, 2009

DPS school, its management and the staff never stops to amaze me !

The DPS bus which comes to Kalyani Nagar to pick and drop my child would stop at a very filthy place. At the garbage dump, right after the bridge ended . It was not just filthy but was a nuisance to be standing amongst ragpickers, truck drivers and scrap collection shop. My kid started only this year, so I was trying to bear untill the rains started this june 2009. It became a nightmare to stand in the rains, with cars splashing water, flies tickling and men staring at buffons like us waiting !
That’s when I decided, no more bearing this unwanted trauma everyday in the scorching sun or pouring rains.
I spoke to a few parents if they wanted to get the bus stand shifted to somewhere decent place. Everyone obviously nodded. SO I went to the school and spoke to the office lady, who asked me to get a letter from all the parents who wanted the same. Then my hubby darling spoke to the transport head too. He said if there was a good number of students from my society, they will defintely consider the change.
SO I again made a letter describing the situation, took names of all the kids who would come to the bus stop and gave it to the principal. I also showed the management pictures of the area in the rains with the garbage.
The principal without a single word approved the change of the stop from the shabby place to my society Lunkad Sky Lounge. Now that’s what I call quick decision and appreciate the DPS school even more.

What a SCHOOL you have madamjee ! Hats off !

Moral of the story …. When you want to get something, all you have to do is ASK ! 🙂

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“Bring me an Orange Phone”

Posted by madhuriesingh on April 17, 2009

Airtel advertisement made me realize something very profound.

I was talking to a friend who lives in Delhi. My sons were playing around me when my younger son heard me mention delhi while I was conversing.

After a while my son wanted to talk to my friend urgently. He took the phone and after a general talk I heard him say … “Bring an orange phone” !!!

“no not red only orange color phone..”

“ok bye..”

Now my friend was quite amused with a very specific request of item being asked by a 4 yr old. But I told him definitely orange was not his favorite color, it was red that he preferred. And never has he shown any keen interest of phones. He is a die hard 4 wheel lover !!!

And that’s when it clicked to me….!!!

The new Airtel advertisement. Yes that was it!
The ad showed a small kid of my son’s age being reprimanded by his mom for being naughty. She had scolded him and not allowed him to play outside with other kids. The kid then sneaks out of the home with something in his hands and goes up on a terrace. He finds a secured place and sits down to reveal an “orange phone ” . He picks up the phone and say ” Papa aap dilli gaye, Mumma ne mujhe daanta. Aap Mumma ko daantna ” . Then he rushed back to his chair where he was asked to chill out by his mom.

His mom comes up and says ” Doodh pe ke baahar khelne ja sakte ho ”

He asks his mom ” Papa ka phone aaya tha ?”

And the mom just smiles…

The kid thinks for sure that his dad had called back and scolded his mom and asked him to send him to play 🙂

So there was the clue that we needed… for my son’s special and specific request for “an orange phone” …

Btw he is still waiting … for his “Orange Phone “

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

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 28, 2008

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….

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Yippy my son got through ST MARY’S SCHOOL Pune, India !

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 23, 2008

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Feb 24, 2008

 

I am a very proud and free mom today..Why? ‘Cause finally my elder son got through the St Mary’s School in Upper KG ! I should have hunted for schools and admission when he was to go to LKG.
On the day of his written test (imagine that for a 4.5 yr old) and an oral test, I was quite sure he will do well as he is a brilliant learner!
U know, he likes to learn about everything and anything! Such intelligent questions?

One question in the interview was what objects do u use in a rainy day?

He told me all that he cud think of including umbrella, raincoat, gumboots….and then he added ..” teacher u can use newspaper also if you don’t have anything else   !”

I knew I don’t have to worry.

So on the  parents’ interview day , my hubby and I waited for one hour for our turn with butterflies in my tummy!…

  Mrs. Mathew, the director of St Mary’s was smiling and looking through her spectacles. She asked me, “So you are Shourya’s Parents?”  And we replied “Yes”. Not forgetting any of our etiquettes, we pulled the chair to sit down.
Mrs. Mathew who was beaming said with a lovely smile ….” Oh your son has done very well, he is brilliant child! 

Then she asked where my younger son goes. I told her as of now a playschool called Kidder Brook, but will be here after one year to join his brother in St Mary’s.

Hoping to see any change in expression or an answer to counter my far fetched thoughts, I looked into her eyes. read more…

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Schools in Pune, India DPS, ST MARY’S, BISHOPS, LEXICON, VIBGYOR…..

Posted by madhuriesingh on July 23, 2008

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Admission time in Pune is harrowing experience for all parents trying to select a school for their kid. I made the blunder of not taking admissions for my kid in Jr kg = nursery.

So when Nov 2007 arrived, I was all geared to get my kid admitted into Delhi Public School, Pune. Its a Co-ed school and CBSE board is followed there. Having done the same board made sense.

The website dpspune.com did not display any information till the first week of November 2007. Then the website mentioned that admissions for all classes except above 1st STD were open.

 The forms were available in the office of DPS School, in NIBM road. When I went there sharp at 10:00 am, click here to read more

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