Summer Camps 2011

Every year I will find new summer camps and some of them sound really interesting. Summarizing it here for others as well as my needs in future, since i often search on KV first 🙂 and often due to various reasons it so happens that you find out about something …

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KV cooks for pathshala kids

We’ve been talking about taking a turn for pathshala cooking like we did last year. Are KV folks enthusiastic to volunteer their time for pathshala cooking this year ? The Kutchvalley Master Chef 2011 contestants can do the menu selection for this event. And the Kutchvalley Masterchef 2011 finalists will …

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Ardenwood Monarchs

Ardenwood Historic Farm is holding monarch butterfly tours every Satureday & Sunday at 1.30pm thro’ Jan. 30. Participants tour Ardenwood’s monarch overwintering site on a stroll of less than a mile. Ardenwood’s tour will culminate with a Farewell to Monarchs Day with arts, crafts, walks and a slideshow on Feb. …

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Teach Kids to speak in Kutchi (Kachchhi)

Our mother language (Matru Bhasha) Kachchhi is a part of  our identity and all of us would definitely like our kids to speak fluently in Kachchhi better than any other language they may know. How to ensure that our kids speak in Kachchhi fluently irrespective of the pressures to learn and speak other languages especially since lot …

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Excellent Video tutorials for all

I stumbled upon some excellent video tutorials covering everything from Arithmatic, all the way thru Calculus III; and also on other subjects such as Physics, Biology, Banking, Economics, …etc. Khan Academy is run by an entrepreneur who is a MIT graduate. He started off by tutoring his cousins, nieces and …

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Overparenting

overparenting

The article “The Case against Overparenting” appeared in Time Magazine in Nov 2009. But I got around to reading it only now. A quote from that article appealed to me. Here it is:
“With children they need that space not to be entertained or distracted. What boredom does”

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