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Parent Talk - Episode 18: The Joy of Dance

Parent Talk – Episode 18: The Joy of Dance

Sunday, February 26, 2012 19:02

Parent Talk is a radio show that I've been doing since October 2011 on Radio Zindagi 1550 AM in the SF Bay Area. In true desi style, it's taken 6 months to get my act together and get the mp3 of the show online! Thanks to my friends and listeners ...

Parent Talk Episode 17 – Early Intervention

Saturday, February 18, 2012 19:52

Parent Talk is a radio show broadcast on Radio Zindagi 1550 AM in the SF Bay Area every Saturday at 10 a.m PST.The show is hosted by me and sponsored by the India Community Center. On February 18, I talked a topic that is very close ...

Parent Talk Episode 16 – Parenting Teenagers

Saturday, February 11, 2012 21:10

Parent Talk is a radio show broadcast on Radio Zindagi 1550 AM in the SF Bay Area every Saturday at 10 a.m PST.The show is hosted by me and sponsored by the India Community Center. On February 11, the topic was the stress of parenting teengers ...

Parent Talk Episode 15 – Divorce

Saturday, January 28, 2012 23:46

This show on the effect of divorce on kids was a pretty powerful one, I think. The two guests really played off each others strengths. Guests: Madan Ahluwalia, family lawyer, and Leena Khanzode, a child and adult psychiatrist trained at Stanford. Please send feedback and ideas to radio@indiacc.org. Show sponsored by ...

Parent Talk Episode 14 – Yoga

Saturday, January 28, 2012 18:08

What do kids get out of yoga? Is there an appropriate age to begin yoga? And how can parents make sense of the various forms of yoga out there. Guests: Lipika, kids' yoga instructor at the India Community Center, and ...

Parent Talk Episode 13 – Cheating

Saturday, January 21, 2012 18:07

In this show we talked about how common cheating is in today's schools and what might be the reason for the increase in cheating over the years. Are kids cheating because of the pressure? Is digital piracy lowering the standards for ethical behavior? Guests: Sukanya Goswami, teacher at Newark Memorial High ...

Parent Talk Episode 12 – Art Education

Saturday, January 14, 2012 21:30

Parent Talk is a radio show broadcast on Radio Zindagi 1550 AM in the SF Bay Area every Saturday at 10 a.m PST.The show is hosted by me and sponsored by the India Community Center. On January 14, I discussed the importance of art education with ...

India-themed Summer Camps

Thursday, May 12, 2011 17:45

Well, it's that time of the year again as we scramble to find suitable and enriching camps for our kids. Here is  a list of Summer Camps in the San Francisco Bay Area which give the kids a chance to connect with their Indian heritage. ...

No Gifts!

No Gifts!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 15:09

There are three adults in our home – me, my husband, and my mother – and three kids. Our space can get crowded, primarily with kid stuff: impulse buys when I was a new parent, hand-me-downs that I am incapable of declining, and…gifts. It can be overwhelming.

Deliberate Parenting

Deliberate Parenting

Sunday, December 5, 2010 15:01

Writes Sonia Sweet Kumar - The terms deliberate parenting and karma yoga go hand in hand. Karma yoga advises us to carry on with our work and duties, meditatively. parenting experiences have taught me that – within reason – concentrating on one activity at a time or moving through the ...