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For a parent, few things are more unsettling than watching your child stand at the edge of a playground while everyone else seems to have someone to run towards. You may wonder whether your child is simply shy, whether other children are excluding them, or whether you should step in and help.But how much help…
The biggest mistake is buying furniture before deciding how the space will be used. A balcony that measures only a few feet across cannot comfortably be a garden, office, dining room, storage area and laundry zone at the same time. Trying to make it all of these usually leaves the space cluttered. Instead, give the…
Not every relationship disagreement needs to become a relationship crisis. Sometimes, it’s just about dinner.That’s the idea behind a relationship trend being called a “food divorce” – a term Metro (UK) says it coined. Despite the dramatic name, there’s no actual divorce involved. Instead, it’s about couples who live together but choose to eat separately…
If you have ever looked out of a train window, you may have noticed the thick layer of small stones spread around the railway tracks. They can look like ordinary pieces of gravel, but they are actually an important part of how traditional railway tracks are built. These stones are known as ballast, and they…
Photo courtesy: @ck.bolado/Instagram There are few sounds that can test a new parent’s patience quite like an inconsolable baby. You feed the baby, check the nappy, burp them, dim the lights, rock them, walk around the room- and still the crying continues. Then, sometimes, something unexpectedly simple works.A recent Instagram video has captured exactly that…
Jeanice with her daughter Jordyn. (Instagram/@jeanicejperez) When Jeanice Perez became pregnant at 18, she was not sure what the future would look like. She knew one thing, though. She wanted her daughter to have a life that looked different from her own. Jeanice had grown up in Las Vegas and in poverty.“Being poor was just…
From Bastar’s forests to ramp: Surrendered women Naxals steal show at fashion event in Raipur What a difference a few years can make. At a National Handloom Day event in Raipur, a group of former women Maoists from Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region found themselves in a setting that would once have seemed almost unimaginable – walking…
Manager keeps employee on video calls for 8 hours a day: ‘She’s making me miserable’ Remote work comes with its own version of workplace pressure. Sometimes, it is not the workload itself that becomes difficult, but the constant expectation to stay available. One employee says their workday has reached that point after spending several hours…
5 things you should never ignore in the early stages of dating The early stages of dating can be a little confusing. You are excited to hear from them, you replay conversations in your head, and sometimes, you are so busy wondering whether they like you that you forget to ask yourself a more important…
Independence Day is more than a reminder of India’s freedom. For parents, it can also be a chance to think about another kind of independence: preparing children to become responsible, confident, and caring individuals. Children do not learn responsibility from one big lesson. They learn it through small things they do every day: putting away…
