Sunscreen for kids

 10-15 minutes before you swim, ensure that your kids apply sunscreen (50 SPA PA+++) on all areas. This time is for lotion to sink in, settle and penetrate. 

1. La shield fisico gel

2. suncros soft cream

3. Z block

4. Bio UV soft

Homemade nutella

 

hazelnut, ooty plain dark chocolate, Himalayan pink salt and pure vanilla extract :). We use hazelnut butter and molten chocolate to bring it all together.

Hazelnut butter : Make it from hazelnut. Roast hazelnuts till they smell good or are evenly brown. Then mixer mein daalo for a minute or so poora uska butter ban jaata hai.

Activities for 2 Year Old

1. Transfer of liquids/ solids

2. Picture books/flash cards/foreign language

3. Playtime with transports. Get some big size trucks and take him to the park with it and ask him to collect Soil/stones and put them in the truck

4.summers are here so you can do a lot with water

5. Stacking

6. Introduce diffent concepts in language/vocabulary like colours, shapes, animals n babies, develop as much vocabulary as you can. Flags of the world, inventors, Dinos, wonders of the world etc

7. Sorting of things

8. Pair puzzles (tea-cup, shirt pant,  hen egg)

9. Story cards

10. Show and tell

11. Different forms of painting (comb, sponge, flower, earbud, roller etc)

12. Stickers /stick and paste/ using scissors/ 

13. Food preparation (banana peeling, orange peeling, pomegranate peeling, cutting veggies, pea peeling, potato peeling) 

14. Magnatiles

15. Make straight lines with animals/transport

16. Run and grab the item

17. Catch and throw ball

18. Bat ball

Idli podi/powder/

 

Dry roast them and grind.

An alternative approach:

For dal powder try this 3 ingredients only - chana dal, zeera and Dry red chillies. Quick and jiffy way for making idli podi - Take 30-50 GM's of roasted chana dal , 1 tablespoon of zeera  and few red chillies around 5-10( depending on ur spice levels)

Dry roast the chana dal and keep them aside, dry roast the zeera and red chilies together and keep them aside. Take care not to burn any of them. Then add a pinch or two pinches of hing to the roasted zeeera and red chillies and turn off the flame. Hing burns quickly so ensure u add hing only after the stove is turned off. Finely grind them and add salt according to ur requirement while grinding. Entire process takes less than 15 min max. Do give it a try ( it's called Kandi podi that's used for idlis and dosa)

Rasam in 5 mins!!

Soak a amla size tamarind in water for 10 mins, take the pulp out of it.

In a mixture jar take:

1tsp pepper( not powder)

1/2tsp jeera(not powder)

5 garlic pieces

2 medium size tomatoes cut into 4

Grind these 4 ingredients without water

For tadka:

Oil, sesame seeds, 3 dry red chillies, curry leaves

Then fry the mixture in the oil for 3 minutes and put some turmeric and salt .Then add 2 to 3 glass of water(including the tamarind pulp). Put the corriandor leaves at last.

I generally don't allow the rasam to boil. When you see only the foams and the moment when it start boil I will switch off the stove.

Process of prep takes only 5 mins

This how I make rasam at my home. I put more curry leaves at last.

25 Points for teaching children moral values

 I want to be 

1. Be Brave

2. Be Charming

3. Be Fit

4. Be Friendly

5. Be Happy

6. Be Honest

7. Be Kind

8. Be Obedient

9. Be Patient

10. Be Polite

11. Be Proud

12. Be Responsible

13. Be Smart

14. Be Thankful

15. Care

16. Control Anger

17. Forgive

18. Have good habits

19. Have good manners

20. Help

21. Learn All I Can

22. Remove Jealousy

23. Be Safe

24. Share

25. Be a Team Player

What to talk and what not to!!

 Avoid talking on these lines:

Try to inculcate these thoughts, so that people will want to listen to!