Momstuff (53 entries)
Every time I venture out to buy pretty things for my house or the family, I feel a twinge of guilt: am I increasing my carbon footprint yet again? Which is why I love The Shop, a charming store for really lovely lifestyle products, with a BIG conscience.
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This year at the Trade Fair I happened to visit the Kenwood Home Appliances stall. It was a delightful experience. I was thrilled to discover the Breadmaker which makes much more than just bread. It’s a smart piece of appliance which has several pre-programmed options for making different kinds of breads: wheat, multi grain, French [...]
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Food is a sensitive issue with most kids, at one age or another. They always want to snack and you mostly want them to have proper meals. Unfortunately, there are very few locally available brands of healthy kids’ snacks, so we have to rely on imported stuff like cereal bars and other munchies from Gerber, [...]
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A friend who came visiting recently was in a flap when she discovered that Meru cabs did not have one available to drop her back home. We offered to call her a yellow to, but she point blank refused and went on to explain a terrible experience she had in broad daylight with a regular [...]
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A minor accident has forced my husband stay at home. He loves watching movies and that’s what we did for the first few weeks to pass the time. But then after a while that got boring too. We had tired of playing our regular board games. We needed something new – enter Scattergories by Parker [...]
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As parents at some point or the other we have to get ready to chat with our babies about ‘good touch-bad touch’ and only you can be the best judge of when is the right time to start explaining the concept. We have decided now is the time as our tot is in nursery and [...]
I happened to chance upon Gyneguide and guess what; it’s not a book with gynecological tips but a full-fledged professional clinic run by Dr. Suman Bijlani. The baby business today is providing us so many fantastic options sometimes it gets confusing trying to figure it out. So here is a one-of-its kind clinic that addresses [...]
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After having had an official ‘agony aunt’ chat with my niece who is just about hitting the wonder years (am still wondering who was in more agony during the chat), I came upon a fantastic set of books. We are really luckier than our folks were with books like Just For Girls by Sarah Delmege [...]
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I have just cleared our library and set out piles of books that our tot has outgrown and I can’t begin to tell you how good it feels. Not just because the treasures got dusted, sorted and space has been made for new books, but there’s also the joy of coming upon the good old [...]
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Mumbai has long been the city of leisurely Sunday brunches. However with two hungry beavers unable to wait for food till “brunch time” at 11, Sunday’s would start with bleary-eyed me flipping pancake at 8am after a Saturday night out.
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