Timeouts

So we dont spank or give timeouts to our kids. Rather we try to work through their emotions to understand whats going on.
This takes time and tests your patience, but it brings out a better person in you and your kid and makes your kid wants to co operate.

The other day, i was trying to pretend as if I give timeouts to my elder one. I was keenly watching his face as I pretended as if Im angry and asked him to go to a corner. Its amazing how his face reacted as I was shouting commands at him.  His face turned red to uncertain to a puzzled look to finally abandonment, before I told him I was pretending at which I could clearly see relief in his eyes.

Homeschooling Planners and Resources

       I will continue to update this page as I find more relevant information.

• http://www.amblesideonline.org/ - Free Year-by-Year planner for homeschooling parents. Follows Charlotte-Mason  Technique.  Also features forums, support groups etc..
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• Homeschool Planner - Provides templates for different schedules, ages etc...for a nominal fee.
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• http://homeschool.mardel.com - Never used it myself, but it claims to provide free planners for organizing your family around homeschooling. 
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• http://www.montessori.edu/homeschooling.html -  Homeschooling resources following Montessori technique. 
• http://www.live-education.com/ - Provides planners and resources for Homeschoolers following Waldorf Method.  Its priced around $450 for every school year. 

Programmer's Dilemma..!!

Cool Design for a new house

I found this from one of the facebook posts.
I like how they converted the staircase into a book library.

http://www.archdaily.com/357131/panorama-house-moon-hoon/

Wish our schools were more interesting..

So,  I was listening to an interview on radio about Anne Frank. The guest was a cousin of Anne frank who knew her intimately. As I recollected reading about her in my high school syllabus, it was so exciting to listen to some one how knew her so well.
I am sure most of us have read about her diary in school or atleast heard about her extra ordinary story about
survival and hope. As I was reading, I was taken back to my high school days when Anne frank's diary was part of our syllabus.
I remember it was a 2 page chapter and was more of an summary of her diary. So, most of us just skimmed through it
and answered a few questions about that chapter in the exam and promptly forgot about her.
As I was listening to the radio program, it struck me suddenly, what a fun it would have been to have read her complete diary at that time or listened
to such programs as we were reading through that chapter. Suddenly, a boring 2 page chapter would become a gateway to a glorius book to know about an interesting
person. Additionally, it would have got us thinking , which I believe is the crux of education and schools.
 As an added bonus, the questions in the exam about this chapter woudl have been a breeze :) .
Extrapolate similar activitiy for all subjects and chapters and wow, every year of school would be so refreshing, informative and fun.!!!

I can go on and on , but you get the idea.  Education could be made so much more interesting and enriched. 

Car museum in Oznard..

Carnegie museum ( canergieam.org ) - unusual art exhibits

Mullin Automotive museum - mullinautomotivemuseum.com

Valley of Flowers in South India.. !!

Kaas Valley in Maharashtra is famous as the valley of flowers down south..

Here is a short snippet