Nuts are plentiful in grocery stores around this time of year. They are good for our health and contain high levels of antioxidants and omega-6 fatty acids. The science of Ayurveda also says that nuts warm our body from the inside and that’s exactly what we need during the long cold winter months. So I…
7 food additives that may be harming our kids
It’s confession time – candy is popular in my house. We seem to always have enough to power a small town of starved kids at any given moment. And none of this stash of candy is actually *bought* by us. It just seems to appear on the counter every weekend. Every so often and after…
10 Weird Things I Miss About India
I live in Canada and happily so. At the same time I miss India especially when there’s a special day coming up. With colour and lights and decorations on every corner, it feels like home. Can a girl have two homes? I’m living proof she can! Weird Things I Miss About India The idiosyncrasies that I’m…
Inside Out Movie #Review
Like so many other parents, I also took my daughter and her friend to see Disney/ Pixar’s latest movie, Inside Out. No, this is not a review because if it were…..it would be really short.“Watch Inside Out. It’s excellent.” The kids loved the movie, no doubt about it. As did I. But what I loved most…
11 Practical Tips for Travel-Happy Kids
I just got off what seems like my 200th plane ride. Perhaps it was, for the life of me I can’t remember. My husband and I have lived away from India for almost 17 years. And where ever we lived, Dubai, Calgary or Toronto, we made the time to visit our extended family back home in India. Over…