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		<title>iPhone Apps for 2 year old&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fisher Price Launches iPhone Apps For 2-Year-Olds. Okay.. 2 &#8211; 5 year old&#8217;s. Read news here.. 
Cool?
Crazy?
We are just getting old?
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		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/03/19/iphone-apps-for-2-year-olds/</link>
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		<title>What Your Blog Says About You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you what your blog says you are? I stumbled upon this blog personality tool. Just enter your blog url, the tool scans through the text, and based on keywords, idioms, phrases used, defines the personality of the blog. I wonder if we really are what our blog projects we are. The image above is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/03/18/what-your-blog-says-about-you/</link>
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		<title>My teacher told.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mam told.. My teacher told.. 
I am forced to hear this statement every so often in various tones, context and decibel levels that it has now become synonymous with noise. D considers her mother, that is me   ,  the best in the whole world, just like any other kid. But when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/03/11/my-teacher-told/</link>
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		<title>Where are we headed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece of news just blew me off. 
Read the complete news here

Call me old school and old! As I completely fail to understand the Farmville / Fishville addiction and the joy one derives from creating a virtual farm. Let alone virtual currencies. I first came to know of Farmville when my 14 year old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/03/08/where-are-we-headed/</link>
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		<title>2.5 years later..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September 2007:
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February 2010:
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		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/02/17/2-5-years-later/</link>
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		<title>Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji, Thoda Kachcha Hai Ji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The resident 5 year old hears me sing this throughout the day and ends up asking the meaning of Dil, Thoda and Kachcha. With the forever preoccupied mind, I say Heart, Little and Raw without realizing the context. 2 minutes later I get questioned &#8211; Heart is little raw? Like it needs to be cooked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/01/28/dil-to-bachcha-hai-ji-thoda-kachcha-hai-ji/</link>
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		<title>Smile Please!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday night, D wanted a new real story to be told, real like in Greg Mortenson uncle&#8217;s school stories (Three cups of tea). The father surrenders to the request and barely manages to keep his eyes open while churning out some African on-the-spot tale set in Serengeti. They ended up into an argument over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2010/01/27/smile-please/</link>
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		<title>2009 In A Snapshot. The Hundredth Post.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 We have become a Bangalorean. Almost. We own a nebulizer, a hot water bag, a steamer, a vial of asthalin. We started the kids on homeopathy. I can understand a teeny bit of Kannada and speak butler Kannada aka Hindi /English /Tamil suffixed with a maadi. Like bargaining &#8211; Yestu.. Yenu so much.. 50 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/12/30/2009-in-a-snapshot-the-hundredth-post/</link>
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		<title>I Love India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It helps me to stay grounded and constantly r e m i n d s me to appreciate whatever I have.  
This post is not about patriotism or an NRI flaunting their long lost love for their home country, which I am not and choose not to indulge. I am proud to be an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/10/01/i-love-india/</link>
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		<title>From one child to another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest thought process in D&#8217;s world has been &#8220;poor&#8221;, &#8220;why some people are poor&#8221;, &#8220;why they don&#8217;t have money&#8221;, &#8220;their mother and father don&#8217;t work?&#8221;, &#8220;poor people are bad or good people&#8221; and the likes. I have been trying to explain this to her without labeling a class of people as &#8220;poor&#8221;, and trying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/09/25/from-one-child-to-another/</link>
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		<title>The Sentimental Fool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She is lying on the bed with welled up eyes over a painful argument with her husband. After a really long day,  juggling with the many responsibilities, an otherwise casual question on priority broke the camel&#8217;s back. 
The littlest one is cuddled up with her, while the rest of the family is on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/09/16/the-sentimental-fool/</link>
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		<title>The Idiot Box Substituted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we moved to Bangalore less than a year back, the husband was pretty adamant on not buying the TV. The LH is a man of his own values, and adheres to them earnestly, no matter what the world makes of him. Me, on the other hand, lives by the rules, likes moderation and believes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/09/13/the-idiot-box-substituted/</link>
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		<title>What do you do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the two girls end up in a fight over the same paint brush. Mother tells the older one, God has given her a mouth to talk. Use that before using the fist. While she is attempting to listen by looking into the mother&#8217;s eyes, the younger one punches her, snatches the brush and runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/09/07/what-do-you-do/</link>
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		<title>Life, Old Age, Staying Fit and the Likes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It makes me wonder if it is typical of a 4-6 year old, to show interest in topics related to life, death and spirituality. I have read at least 5 blogs related to this topic in the past month, all of them having kids in this age group. The email newsletter from babycenter few weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/09/06/life-old-age-staying-fit-and-the-likes/</link>
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		<title>My Kid is the Best, No?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, we had a parent-teacher meeting at D&#8217;s school. The meeting was organized in to 15 minute slots. The teacher -K, was talking to this parent, while I was waiting for my turn. K was telling this parent that their daughter was an all-rounder. That there isn&#8217;t a single change she wants in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/08/18/my-kid-is-the-best-no/</link>
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		<title>Intellectual Relaxation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday morning blues? Beat it with some laughter 























Courtesy: Mail Forward


I don&#8217;t recall writing anything as crazy as the above ones, though I am definite I had those moments, specifically the second one. Just never had the guts to do so. The closest I got is this 8085 Microprocessor paper, where due to some error, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/08/17/intellectual-relaxation/</link>
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		<title>Ten years and counting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10 years of marriage, 11.5 years of togetherness, 1 failed production, 2 successful productions. Pretty good. What say?

There has been many ups and downs in the journey so far. Still, at the end of 10 years, it makes the journey worth while.. wanting more of the same.. 
When the sight of each other at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/06/23/ten-years-and-counting/</link>
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		<title>Fanta Kudunge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This conversation with my maid cracked me up. S is a Tamil speaking young girl. Very clean and hardworking, but very slow and shy. Very few words come out of her mouth, like pearl droppings. 
It goes something like this.. 
Madam, interval aayiduchu (Madam, interval happened)
I give a blank look. Was busy working and did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/05/20/fanta-kudunge/</link>
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		<title>Do Schools Kill Creativity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled upon this video. A lot of what Ken Robinson says makes absolute sense. I am not the creative kind, I am very much a left brained person. So, I cannot relate too much to the thought of having schools teach dance as a mandatory subject just like math and language. But living with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/05/19/do-schools-kill-creativity/</link>
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		<title>One more tick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote that one post on come back and went AWOL again. This time however, it wasn&#8217;t intentional. So much I want to pen down, yet I have been racking my brain this past hour on what to write first. Jump starting with the latest happening. 
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One more tick in the milestone chart. Dlittle is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/04/26/one-more-tick/</link>
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		<title>Recharged</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why am I blogging all of a sudden? Because I waited 7 months for D and Dlittle to grow chubbier, and now need a space to flaunt their chubbiness. Or that I need a space to rant that the 7 year old jeans that fit me few months after Dlittle was born, does not fit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2009/03/08/recharged/</link>
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		<title>Mixing Eric Carle and Elieen Christelow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gazillion apologies, Eric Carle and Elieen Christelow. I understand that you both are not related by any means, but my daughter attempts to do so. In her own imaginative world. 
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These last few months, D has been insisting on starting the book with Who wrote this book and ending with Where Aunty/Uncle lives , Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2008/07/22/mixing-eric-carle-and-elieen-christelow/</link>
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		<title>The Joys of being a WAHM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The phone rings. The lady of the house who has now mastered the art of changing hats at the blink of an eye is not sure which role she&#8217;s gonna assume next. That of a friend, family member, architect, consultant or a pre-sales techno. While she takes a quick look at the caller ID, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2008/07/18/the-joys-of-being-a-wahm/</link>
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		<title>Social Networking for Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 12 year old niece sends me a message on skype asking me to sign up on Toondoo. When I ask her what this site is about, she says it&#8217;s a social networking site to create, share and discus comic strips. Create? Share? Discuss? At 12 years of age? I was tempted to lecture her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2008/07/16/social-networking-for-kids/</link>
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		<title>The Countdown Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[! E-Ticket in hand ! ! Household sale bohni this Saturday ! 
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No matter from which angle I look at it, zoom in, zoom out, flip or rotate. It speaks out loud, it is very much a non-refundable, non-transferable ONE-WAY ticket! Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I am super excited and looking forward to the move, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://penningmythoughts.com/ddmomsweblog/2008/07/14/the-countdown-begins/</link>
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