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Creative Play with children #MondayMommyMoments

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on April 9, 2017 25

I love playing with my daughter.

Holidays are game marathons .But for a five year old ,everyday’s a new day ,full of new ideas for having fun.Together with her ,I relive all the fun memories of childhood.

Doodling is a favourite.

She draws or I draw .Then we colour together ,spending hours over getting the pictures right.Then she tells me a story ,looking at the picture and I tell her a story.Definitely a fun hour or two .

Playing with the blackboard decal and whiteboard are favourites too.

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We play teacher-teacher .Where she is the teacher and me or my hubby or sometimes both have to be students .Best way to make learning fun .

Crafting

Making hair clips ,headbands and necklaces using DIY kits ,is a recent favourite.

DIY Craft kit for making hair clips ,necklace, hairbands

I have bought the kit online and supplemented it from my craft kit .Result is a totally productive and fun time spent, where mommy forgets to sneak off to write.

We paint our plant pots and decorate them together.

My balcony garden is a witness to our fun painting pot sessions.

Painting our plant pots together make for some fun family times .

We bake together .

My daughter will tell you the exact steps to bake a mouth-watering delicious chocolate cake.

Nail painting

We paint each others toe nails rainbow colours. It’s precision work at best and funny nail art at worst .

Play dress up and karaoke

We dress up and makeup funny songs to sing in popular tunes .

Playing with children is a wonderful stress buster and the best way to encourage lateral thinking, association ,imagination in children.It’s also a wonderful way to nurture the right brain of your child.

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By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on April 8, 2017 23

Monday Mommy Moments:Coping with exam stress

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 27, 2017 43

Do you stress about your children’s exams ?

What do you do to make them deal with exam stress ? My daughter just turned 5 .She has exams.But just doesn’t know what they are and that they can cause stress.If I have my way ,I want her to be this way forever.I want her to learn her school work well and do her best .But not stress over it so much that she stops having fun learning .

I haven’t started dealing with exam stress for her ,but till a few years back I had exams .

Mommy’s advice to Rai

Study throughout the year.Do your daily work then when its revision time,you do exactly that .Revise.No stressing over completing syllabus.

Eat healthy and sleep on time during exams.Keep your water bottle next to you The snack box is inside your drawer .You can nibble every two hours..Absolutely no late nights.The only thing sleep deprivation does is make you forget what you know.Believe me have tried both!

Dont forget a hobby or light relaxing reading at least twice a day for unwinding the mind.Plus unrelated activities often make you remember better.

Exercise .At least 20 minutes.Walk run,jog,dance .Just don’t stop exercising.If needed read while walking.

Study in a room with no distractions.Not in front of the TV .You may think this works best for you.But it just makes your brain tired.

Make revisions fun.Sometimes reading the same thing over and over is boring.Try to make fun quizes out of your study material .

Try group studies once a week with friends who are sincere.

It breaks the monotony and gets you a fresh outlook.Try to recollect what you studied the night before when you set out for the day.

Eat a healthy breakfast before going for exams.

Think positive all the time no matter what.No negative self talk and don’t listen to negativity.

Do your best and compete with your own self.Always.

Work hard and pray everything will work out.

Then there will be holidays to laze around.

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Truth about stress : 5 quick ways to get rid of it

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 3, 2017 6

What stresses you out ?

This week is turning out to be a little erratic .

I get stressed when things don’t follow the plan .But it’s worse when hubby is not around to calm me down .The best way to get rid of chronic stress is not to use the wrod stress or tension.That worked for me.I say things like “I need a plan Z or I am looking for a solution.I am a doctor and I started blogging in 2014 .Stress was one of the reasons I took to writing.

I wrote a post on 32 ways to beat stress.

Most people are helped with just a few But some people need more help.

That’s when you need to take charge of your mind.

The main problem is, most people don’t want to take responsibility for their actions .

They want someone to solve their problems.Someone to give them medicines or wave a magic wand .

I sometimes wonder why people don’t study?

Even if I do get, that children should enjoy their childhood ,I don’t understand not letting them get prepared.It’s about teaching them to study a little every day ,so that you don’t stress during exams.

Life unfortunately is not a bed of roses.Neither is it fair .

The only way to get what you want out of life is to be armed to a T.

Learning life skills is part of that very important dressing up .

If you want to be healthy ,eat healthy, exercise ,sleep.

If you want to earn well .Study hard .You never know which skills you may need.

Who knew my creative writing skills from school would come handy ?

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Also those Moral science classes,which were all about play acting and life’s lessons.

Education never goes to waste ,until you waste it.

Just because you are good at something and love something, doesn’t mean you can’t be awesome at something else too!

That’s why you need to be well equipped to choose.

If you want to live well ,choose your partner wisely.

Is there any other way to this ?

I don’t know.

I really don’t.

Of all the people I see struggling ,I find one very important common link.They don’t take responsibility.

Most things in life is the result of a choice you have made at some point in your life

When I get stressed I do 5 things to snap me out of it :

1)Jump on the treadmill for a quick run.It helps a lot .The single best thing to try.

2)I prune my plants and give my balcony garden a lot of TLC.

3)Drink a lot of water .

4)Read a mystery novel, often in Bengali my mother tongue.

5)Cuddle Rai and tickle her .

What do you do to beat stress ?

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Creative Play with children #MondayMommyMoments

Doodling is a favourite.