“What should we do to make Christmas different this year?” Jillie thought as she sat waiting for the husband, John, to come home. “We always have family dinners every year and the kids love meeting their cousins and play with them.” She further pondered and...
Meera had always dreamt of making her way into a big IT firm in her city and she excitedly applied to companies and IT firms for obtaining a good job opportunity. But there was just one problem, which was making her nervous about stepping into...
Children learn better by observing. It’s true. But, if you want your child to learn faster and develop their language skills, there is no better way to do it than with rhymes. Nursery Rhymes have been around us for years now and are a part...
Rain, Rain, Go Away - Childhood Monsoon Memories and More I clearly remember my childhood, when the rains poured down heavily and I had nothing to do except play with my dolls. I kept looking out of the window, wishing for it to stop. I just...
वाह वाह ! दिवाली शब्दोंवाली प्रतियोगिता के विजेताओं की घोषणा हो गई है जैसा कि हम जानते हैं दिवाली प्रकाश और उत्साह के बारे में है और इसीलिए हम सभी नए शब्दों वाले जादू के साथ अपने सभी छोटे से दिमाग में प्रकाश डालते हैं। दीपों के भव्य...
Diwali is about light and sparks. So are we! We are all about sparking and lighting up your little one's mind with the magic of new words. Weeks leading up to the grand festival of lights, Diwali. We started something challenging and illuminating for our...
"Nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, smoke, ozone" are what your kid is breathing in with every single breath! That's right, if your kid is in Delhi-NCR, they are enveloped in a dense smog catastrophy. How we wish we had the power to make the air cleaner! Sadly, there is...
I was helping my daughter study for a general knowledge school test one night and one of the questions was, “Who is known as the father of the nation?”. My daughter was a fast learner and of course, she excitedly answered, “Mahatma Gandhi!”. I was...
You master words, you complete challenges, and that's how you win the OckyPocky Summer Learning Challenge! This summer of 2019, we knew kids will have truckloads of free time to do things (apart from wreaking havoc) 😜! That's why we wanted these months to have a touch of learning too!...
It was an incredible sight when my niece, who was one and a half years old recognized colours and shapes and named them fluently. It amazed me even more that she could now speak full sentences like “Hush a bye baby” or “Mama, don’t go”....
