February 14th is an exciting day for young and old lovers alike. It can be a day of celebration of love. Love of all hues and colours, with all its grandness and simplicity. It gives me great pleasure to greet you all on the occasion of Valentine’s Day and say that I Love You All [...]
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This Valentine’s Day, Love All !
Posted in Love, adding dimensions, empowering, food for thought, greetings, our mind, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adjustments and compromises, commitment, commitment phobia, common interests, connotations, emotional closeness, emotional drifting, everlasting love, greetings, infatuation, intimacy, limitless and unconditional, Love, marriage, passion, physical attraction, proximity, roses, sharing and caring, spiritual, valentine's day, youth on February 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
High heeled shoes to up women’s libido!
Posted in fashion, food for thought, life's dilemmas, people, psychology, research, science, sexuality, society, thoughts and emotions, women, youth, tagged breaking bones, fall, fashion, high heeled shoes, Italian scientists, junk research, pelvic muscles, podiatrists, research, sex appeal, sexuality, walking with high-heeled soes, women-libido on February 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I read an interesting (read nonsensical) piece of Research result, in New Indian express, bangalore Edition, dated 7th Feb 08, found out by the Italian scientists. I call it ‘junk research’ as the results of such researches do more harm than good to woman-kind!
They have found out that wearing high heeled shoes can boost a [...]
BELCHING COWS & GREEN HOUSE GAS
Posted in diseases, environment, food for thought, from TOI, pets, research, society, tagged belching, cows, europe, grass eating, greenhouse effect, mad cow disease, research funding, sweden research on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following is the letter to the TOI editor that mr vidyaranya bellur emailed, but unfortunately the letter was highly edited and published on 28/01/08. since he had emailed a copy to me, i thought of publishing it here unedited so that it might interest my readers and they may write their comments on this:
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Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 5
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged auditory discrimination, dyslexia, figure-ground perception, reading difficulties, short term visual and auditory memory, visual and auditory closure, visual discrimination, visual perception on January 19, 2008 | 16 Comments »
In my last post I had written about the various difficulties that children with LD face while reading. Most of these difficulties occur because of visual and auditory perceptual problems. Let me explain.
Children will have normal vision, normal hearing ability, but may have difficulty in:
visual and auditory discrimination – they may be unable to discriminate between similar [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 4
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, learning disability, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, tagged dyslexia, learning disability, reading difficulty, coding and decoding letters, phoneme, grapheme, phonetic way, whole word approach, figure-ground perception on January 17, 2008 | Comments Off
We will continue with the identification features of Learning Disability in Children. Many of these features may be present in a child below the age of 8 as part of their developmental phase. There are developmental norms in various domains of child development and children differ in their pace of attaining these norms. If they persist [...]
Dyslexia or Learning Disability – 3
Posted in adding dimensions, children, counselling, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged emotional immaturity, emotions, laterality, learning disability, memory, reading expressions on other's face, right-left confusion, sequencing, spatial ability, specific learning disability, symptoms of LD on January 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let me once again make it very clear to all that the intention of my posts on Learning Disability is early identification and early intervention so that most of these kids will come out of the problem or the damages are minimized or intelligent kids are helped to make their own strategies to overcome the issues bogging [...]
Safer India
Posted in empowering, life's dilemmas, notice to readers, people, society, spreading awareness, youth, tagged crimes in india, Kiran Bedi, Safer india, tell your friends on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hello all,
this is the information that I received from Vandana through email. I am sure it will come of use to any of us or our kith and kin. Thank you, vandana.
This is very imprortant information about a web site called as www.saferindia.com .
This is a site of an NGO started by Ms Kiran [...]
Taare Zamin Par and Dyslexia
Posted in children, counselling, disability, education, empowering, food for thought, life skills, life's dilemmas, parenting, people, psychology, research, society, spreading awareness, suicide prevention, thoughts and emotions, tagged depression, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyslexia, learning disability, low self-esteem, low self-worth, sensitizing parents and teachers of school going childr, suicidal ideations on January 12, 2008 | 17 Comments »
By now most of you readers would have seen the movie “Taare Zamin Par”, directed by Aamir Khan. I am sure it has touched the viewers’ hearts and has been successful in bringing awareness about a condition called “dyslexia“. But many cinema goers forget the whole message once they get back to their other pressing [...]
ADOPTION and related issues – 4
Posted in adding dimensions, adoption, children, counselling, empowering, food for thought, life's dilemmas, our mind, parenting, people, philosophy, psychology, society, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, youth, tagged adoption in indian context, conditions for adoption, procedure on January 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In this post I would like to discuss other issues connected with adoption, more in the context of Indian milieu.
Who are the ones who generally adopt a child?
Married couples who have not had a child of their own, due to various reasons, who now want to go in for adoption.
Married couples who have their biological child/children [...]
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