Daughters are real darlings, I can vouch for this: the pleasant feelings that I experience quite often due to my two adorable cuties is a great stress buster! Any working mom without a cook, would know that the few hours in the morning, when everyone has to be out by 8:30am with lunches packed are no less than those of a war front. It was one such morning and to add to the woes, I had woken up late, thanks to a late night telecon. As I was trying to work at the maximum speed possible and multi-tasking, the most dreaded thing happened – the masala box (the one with 6 partitions for the different spices) slipped from my hand and fell all over the gas stove, the kitchen counter and the floor. I looked with horror at the scene – jeera, mustard, turmeric powder, asafoetida … all looked inseparable like long lost lovers and what more, there was no option to put off this cleaning until after I return from office!. I was weighing my options of bursting into tears or into anger… just then two tiny hands hugged me from behind. As I was about to shrug them off, they wrapped around more tightly. It was my 9 year old in her school uniform getting ready and she said, “Don’t worry ma, it happens. We all drop things, even I had dropped and spilt a lot of stuff.” I just hugged her tightly for a few minutes, just thanking her. Those words were enough to make me calm and sane and believe me, all the tasks got done in a very short time and I even had a few minutes to relax before stepping out to work. It also made me feel very small and recollect the times when I have shouted at her for not being careful with things.
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Devishobha Chandramouli
Devishobha is the founder of Kidskintha- a global parenting and education collective, and the host of the global virtual conferences hosted on the platform. You can also find her voice on the Huffington Post, Mother.ly, Entrepreneur, Lifehack, TinyBuddha, Thought Catalog and many other publications.
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I cannot thank you enough for supplying these talks. I am a special education teacher, PreK-6th grade, in Montana, USA. I am so grateful to have instruction and insight from so many experts available to me. Thank you also for providing the links for follow-up questions and diving deeper into their areas of expertise. This summit will make a difference in the way I approach
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I would like to thank you very much for holding the special kid's international summit. I had applied to more than 20 alternative schools all over India two years ago for my son's admission, but nothing worked out. I knew the existing school was not good enough for him. I felt frustrated and could not understand what plans God had for me. However I am very grateful to you for making me aware of so many aspects, now my son has got admission to a school specially meant to teach children like him, in New Jersey and my son is very happy.
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