Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor Well, it’s not even the middle of January and it’s already been a long year. Parenting is fraught at the best of times but with a pandemic raging on in the background, many of us are finding that we are spinning even more plates than usual. Some of us [...]
Author: Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor As I write this, in December, I think I’ve read and heard the words ‘social distancing’ enough times to last me a lifetime! I still remember hearing it for the first time on the ‘The Late Show’ and snorting with laughter. Social distancing? What was that? Oh, if [...]
Author: Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor Whoever came up with the saying ‘to sleep like a baby’ had clearly never met a baby in their lives Right? Right. Whilst newborns can and often do sleep for up to 16 hours a day, they do not necessarily sleep when their parents and caregivers want them [...]
Author: Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor I’ll level with you: whenever I think about maths, my heart sinks and a sort of cold leaden feeling settles in the pit of my stomach. When I bid goodbye to maths after my GCSEs, I felt nothing short of relief. It was a bit of a shocker [...]
Author: Nayana Chakrabarti, Parenting and Education Editor I think it’s high time that we put a dangerous reading myths to bed: kids don’t read. Kids might need encouragement to read but nothing pays off so well as persistence. While it is true that we are now in a better position than ever to bring home [...]