Spending time with your child

Being a good parent we have to spend some time with our tots. My little ones will be very
happy to tell stories, songs and their class details to me. Its a message to them that we
are with you in your problems and your joys. For working parents in nuclear family its a tough task to find enough time to be with their kids.
We can plan time qualitatively. We can read stories, sing songs, do puzzles or play with
them. All these activities are energy boosters and make them more confident. This will make
them more attached to home.
I always prefer to speak about an event, like vacation activities or visit to the beach or visit to the temple. Its a great thing to hear from their view and how they perceived the world around them. Grand parents can do lot of things in this way. I still remember my grand mother telling stories to me with her hand soothing my hair. All these things are expressions of love.

Onam holidays

Sree with Surya


Suryanath -shots from his home at Thrikkodithanam

Days with grand parents

Hari and Sree with their grand father Mr.K.P.Raju

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children "- Alex Haley

Some shots of children with my father during vacation. They had a wonderful time with my parents. Hari always comparing about the cool atmosphere at Kasimadom and the suffocating heat at Maradu. A lot of trees around my home make it cool. Plavu, Aanjili, Mahagony, Veppu, Vatta, Ilanji, Perumaram, Ambazham, Thekku are some of them. They played with my parents. 'Kuzhiyana' was their favourite friend.

Grand parents love them unconditionally and they allow them to play any thing and every thing. Its a great luck to have some days with grand parents its really a path to your childhood itself.

Play...play and play

With their Teddy. Whenever I use the word Teddy then Mr.Bean

and tiny teddy appear before me. Its so funny to watch Mr.Bean in POGO. Every time they will find a new topic to play and it will end in quarrels. I wonder how they can play together and fight each other with in minutes.

Have a big leap

My lovely children

Sree with his Ammoomma (Malathi Amma). Sree and Hari are lucky to live with their grand mother. She is very nice and have a lot of patience to handle the children.

Sree in an 'Elephant ride'. Sree is really an elephant lover, moreover he is very craze about the

elephants. There will be one or two files with the photos and news collections on the top of my table. He will always fetch these pictures. He will become thrilled when he saw elephants in Animal Planet. His grand father who is an adamant elephant lover wrote a book on elephants. To know more about elephants visit http://www.elephant-kerala.com/ .