Pictures by MAURICE SENDAK | English to Hindi Stories
To add Story Over My Pillow’s own flavour, we have decided to read aloud this wonderful story by also simultaneously translating it into Hindi for our children who have Hindi as their first language!
Kids can be as imaginative as a dream. They can come up with any idea and are all game to make it come true. This sweet story of a little bear being playfully mischievous wants to land to the moon with just a..guess what?- His Space Helmet!!
Often parents find recluse in these innocent tantrums of their child making them blush with pride and sometimes a hearty smile..:)
Today, 1 out of every 5 kids has an ANXIETY DISORDER.
Is your kid much like our ‘Chika’? Help him find ways to deal with his SHYNESS.
As a child, I remember standing near the brick planter of the primary school playground during the lunch break and observing the sparrows sitting on the cemented boundary of the sand pit. I played in the pit till the time there would be only one or two kids rollicking in it. And then on seeing the crowd, would quickly scurry into a corner near the planter.
I would come back home with remarks in the handbook for not mixing up enough with my classmates.
Every page of this insightful journey that Dr. Shefali Tsabary ushers us into, demands deep reflection. Her words are likely to evoke the inevitable guilt pangs, especially in those of us nurturing slightly older kids.
It busts the myth of parenting as an entitlement by virtue of biology, a proclamation that emerges from the fallacy of having the child brought into this world from our blood and sweat alone. The fact, visible only to the minds open to acceptance, remains that the children we claim ours have emerged only ‘through’ us.
3 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BE READING WITH YOUR CHILD, ‘THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER’ by Mark Twain
1. For the joy of experiencing Tom’s delightful adventures, the wild and vivid imagination of a teenage psychology and the deeply felt young emotions thus reproduced.
(The brutes – Tom, Huck and Joe – cook up a recipe to attend their own funeral sermon!)
‘The convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations.’ (convulsion – uncontrollable fit)
2. To marvel at the youthful spirit and Tom’s authentic relationships with his Aunt Polly and Becky – his lady love.
The brute of a boy, the crazy adventurer but a world-class soul of a friend and a lover, Tom Sawyer is a timeless hero. With his signature masterstroke of liberating philosophies and satire, Mark Twain in his novel paints the world of Tom in delicious metaphors we can’t resist to savour.
