As the mother of Niranjana, who recently got married, I have the experience of parenting a young adult! Further, being the faculty in an engineering college, that too dealing with the first year students and their parents gives another dimension of experience with young adults! I can see, parents are very much anxious about the
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We went to our favourite restaurant here this weekend. We ordered the starters, paneer tikka, baby corn fry and one soup. That’s all, eating that itself made my stomach almost full. Then came the garlic nan. One piece of that with mutter paneer made my stomach full. One of my friends ordered veg fried rice,
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What is Mindfulness? How can you be Mindful? And Most Importantly, Why be Mindful? Before knowing ‘What is Mindfulness?’ and ‘How can you be Mindful?’, we need to know why we want to be Mindful. Once we are clear with ‘why’ then ‘what’ and ‘how’ will be derived from that, this is not only for
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Why Don’t We Remove ‘Should’ and ‘Shouldn’t’ from our Vocabulary and Be Kind to Ourselves and Others Too? If someone tells me ‘You should not do this’, the immediate thought that arises in me is why I should not do it? What if I do that? In the same way if someone says ‘you should
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We, Aruni, and I visited his cousin’s house in Coimbatore. His grandson was playing in the hall, where we all were sitting and sharing good old memories. His daughter-in-law joined us after preparing some coffee for all of us. She then called her son, who is just two, and asked him to tell her the
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