CURRENTLY ( MARCH 2024)

How are you all? We are in the middle of March, the atmosphere is beautiful. In the morning you can feel cold air, in the afternoon you can feel very hot but as soon as the day turns to evening it will become cool again - Weather in my area, I am loving it. Is it the same in your area?

Recently I came across this survey on Pinterest "Currently"  I like this concept about recording your current (life moments) and honestly I found it fun. 

I read almost 4 to 5 posts of other bloggers on Pinterest and love the ideas. I hope you all enjoy this post. And if you like to play along with it please comment down your current intrest like read, watch,  feel, etc in the comment section of this blog post. I would love to read it. 

CURRENTLY......

Currently Living : 

 'Universal Law Of Attraction" do you believe it? 

 I believe it because it happened to me. Whatever I want (especially in my subconscious mind) I am getting that. No wonder it takes time but yes , the law of attraction works very well. 

I always wanted to live in Mumbai. Though I was  born at Kalyan which is not far from Mumbai and from my childhood I dreamt of living in Mumbai. After getting married I shifted to Vikhroli. Dream comes true. Then, I wanted to live in the Township. I finally shifted to my dream destination where I wanted to settle with my family for my kids. It took almost 10 years. 

Greatful to the Universe 🙏

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Universal Law Of Attraction worked. And currently we are in Mumbai - Mumbaikar 😎

Currently Day Dreaming : 

Traveling with Mr. Hubby and Family. It's been almost four years since lockdown we didn't travel. With twins our travel adventures started 😉 and currently I am day dreaming of real travel - out of our state. I hope my dreams come true. 

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Currently Watching : 

K- Drama. I am a big fan of K drama. I started watching it in my postpartum period which was helping me to reduce my stress. Though I am not that much addicted and I took almost 2 months to finish one drama 😭 as per my time

But from last year I didn't believe myself I completed almost 5 to 6 K dramas in a line. Mr. Hubby is also surprised that I am not the one sitting infront of big screen . Guess what I also make him addicted to K dramas.😁

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Currently I am watching My Holo Love on Netflix.

I am loving it. ❤️

Currently Reading: 

Currently I am reading lots of blog posts especially foreign bloggers and our Indian bloggers too. Blogs such as, educational, travel, blogging related and  lots of fiction stories written by fellow bloggers. Some of them are my inspiration and I am in a learning process. 

Apart from that I am currently reading the Harry Potter Series,  I started the second book in this series. 

Currently Googling 

Marathi Bloggers and Marathi blogging. I wonder how marathi blogging works. Many of my friends asked me why I don't write in marathi ? And my answer is , "I feel like I'm writing an essay. 

But the real fact is that blogging is tough. I have been on this journey for 6 years and learnt everything by myself. I also love to write in Marathi but there are many difficulties. Figuring out how to solve it? Do people read it ? Many more queries. Currently googling Marathi blogging world.

Currently Indulging: 

Ice creams, ice creams and lots of ice creams. Though I have to hide it from my twins but currently I am carving for more ice creams.😜

Currently Cooking: 

Traditional marathi dishes like pithale bhakari, methi bhaji in marathi style, variety of dals in traditional marathi style, fish fry, and last but not the least dry Fish. 

It's been so many days we didn't get fish here in Mumbai. Recently Mr. Hubby got it after so many searches. Blessed 😇

Cooking dry fish just the way my father loves to eat. The right amount of oil with the right amount of salt. Learning and learning and realizing why pappa insisted on oil. He always wanted to have the right amount of oil na jyda and na Kam. Currently I am in cooking mode in traditional ways. 

Currently Smiling 

On my twins giggles. They are in the language learning phase. The elder twin repeated every word we said. And the smaller one is trying to speak special words. Both are making us smile all day. 

Currently Listening : 

Mix of Bollywood and Hollywood old songs. I love to listen 90's songs. Though on my big screen currently BLACK PINK is trending for my kiddos. Whenever I go for walk I listen  90 songs... And some old songs. 

Specific current list : 

From this moment - Shania  Twain 

RHTDM : Songs 

Currently Avoiding: 

Call from the toxic people. I choose peace over drama. I changed myself a lot because in the end nothing matters but your peace matters a lot. I am on this mode now " I don't want to ask anything and don't want any explanation. ' 

And so cutting such toxic people from my life even they are the near and dear ones. Avoiding all of them. Do you avoid such people or staying connected with them?

Question of the day 

Pick up any currently and play along with it in the comment section. Like, 

Currently Watching...

Currently Avoiding...

Currently Indulging.... Etc.

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Pictograph - Grade 4

 Grade 4  (State Board Of Maharashtra)

Chapter :  Pictograph 

What is pictograph?

Pictograph is one kind of graph in which information is displayed in picture form.

Pictograph use pictures to show data.

Let's check out this pictograph

The above pictograph tells us the number of items available in the bakery.

Number of picture tells the quantity of food items in a bakery.

Cupcakes - 4

Cake - 5 

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Solution: 

Given : Scale - 1 Family means 20 families.

We have to find out the exact number of families.

1) Medicine :  Number of pictures = 3

Total number of Families= 3 x 20 = 60

2) Food Items : Number Of Picture = 4

Total number of families = 4 x 20 = 80

3) Clothes : Number of pictures = 2

Total number of families = 2 x 20 = 40

4) Others : Number of pictures = 3

Total number of families = 3 x 20 = 60

Let's solve the questions ,

Q. 1) In all how many families gave help ?

Ans : Medicine + Food Items + Clothes + Others

60 + 80 + 40 + 60 = 240

Q.2) What form of help was given by the largest number of families? 

Ans : Largest Number of Families : Food Items: 80

Q.3) What form of aid was given by the least number of families?

Ans : Least Number of families : Clothes = 40

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II 

Solution: 

Given Scale = 1 picture of House 🏠 means 10 houses 

First we calculate the numbers 

Gas = Number of pictures = 4 x 10 = 40

Kerosene = Number of pictures = 7 x 10 = 70

Wood = Number of pictures = 2 x 10 = 20

Gobar Gas = Number of pictures = 3 x 10 = 30

Solve the questions: 

Q.1) What kind of fuel used in most houses?

Ans  = The biggest number is 70 

Kerosene is used in the most houses.

Q.2) How many houses use Gobar Gas ?

Ans = 30 houses use Gobar Gas.

Q.3) How many houses use gas?

Ans = 40 houses use gas.

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III 

Solution: 

Scale given : 1 picture of farmers means 10 farmers.

Let's calculate the numbers:

Jowar : Number of pictures = 3 x 10 = 30

Pulses : Number of pictures = 2 x 10 = 20

Vegetable : Number of pictures = 4 x 10 = 40

Others : Number of pictures = 3 x 10 = 30

Solve the Questions :

Q 1) About how many farmers does the chart tell us.

Ans : Total number of farmers are = 

30 + 20 + 40 + 30 = 120

Q2) Which crop is grown by the least number of farmers? 

Ans : The least mean lowest number of farmers is 20

Pulses crop is grown by the least number of farmers.

Q3)  How many more farmers grow vegetables than pulses? 

Ans : Number of farmers grow vegetables=40

Number of farmers grow pulses = 20

How many more = 40 - 20 = 20

20 more farmers grow vegetables than pulses.

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III 

Solution: 

Given Scale : 1 picture of child means 5 children

Let's calculate the number of childrens

Red : Number of pictures = 3 x 5 =15

Blue : Number of pictures = 1 x 5 = 5

Green : Number of pictures = 2 x 5 = 10

Yellow : Number of pictures = 1 x 5 = 5

Solve the Questions :

Q.1) How many children are there in class ?

Ans : Total number of children : 

15 + 5 + 10 + 5 = 35

Q.2) How many children wore yellow clothes?

Ans : Number of yellow clothes are = 5

Q.3) What colour did the greatest number of children wear? How many wore that colour?

Ans : The greatest number of colours worn by children = Red

How many wore that colour = The number of children wore red are = 15

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10. SIMPLE STUDY TIPS FOR FINAL EXAM (PRIMARY STUDENTS)

Simple study tips specially for moms whose kids are in primary sections. 

Introduction

March is the exam period for students as well as for parents. Small kids are carefree but parents are more stressed. By using this 10 simple study tips your kid can do well in final exam. 

Exam means pressure. But have you observed we parents only experience this pressure and our kids are stress free. Because they don't know what the pressure is?  Parents are the ones introducing them to "PRESSURE" And pollute our home atmosphere.  

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If you are a mommy and you have kid in primary section then you must keep yourself strees free.  Let me remind you , we are not going to write the exams for our kids. 

We mothers always take unnecessary stress on behalf of our kids for completing the syllabus, for memorising the question answer, for learning the spelling and bla, bla, bla.  And suddenly we realised our kids are too behind! ( As per our point of views 😜) 

And the game start - building a pressure. 

Right. 

But, is it really necessary? 

Please moms, calm down!  Take deep breaths and release unnecessary stress. Always have a moto that your child should be able to read, write and understand. Pay attention to these three core things. Study will be followed automatically. 

How to achieve this?

All you need is a practice and  10 simple study tips. Practice of reading and writing. And the most important is lower your expectations from your child. Every kid have his uniqueness. They will learn with their pace. 

In today's post I am sharing some tried and tested 10 simple study tips on how to prepare your child for final exam.  If you are the one who helping your child for study then you can cover everything for the exam in 15 to 30 days.

1. START EARLY 

You have to start as early as possible. Keep a habit of completed notes, notebooks and workbook. You should keep on check on this regularly. This way you have completed notes to study.

2. READ A LESSON 

Most students do not read the lesson. Keep a habit of reading a lesson before you start to read questions and answers. Because once you read the lesson you don't need to memorize answers. 

3. FIX TIME FOR STUDY.

Fix a proper time for study specially when your child is fresh and not tired. If parents are sitting with kids for study then allocate fix time. Keep the screen away and fully concentrate on studying only ( specially for parents. 😄) Keep it for 1 hour or 2 hour with 5 to 10 minutes breaks. 

4. PREPARE TIME TABLE

Now you fix your time then prepare the time table for a week. So that you can touch each subject on a daily basis. Try to stick to your time tables.

5. WRITE ANSWERS AND PRACTICE SPELLING.

For language subjects try to write answers. Learn to write without spelling mistakes and memorize answers. This way you can learn how to write your answers in structure way. 

6. DAILY MATHS PRACTICE 

You have to practice math on a daily basis. Maths is the only subject which you cannot memorize. Practice it regularly and clear your doubts from the parents or teachers.

7. TAKE TEST ON COMPLETION OF SYALLABUS

Once you complete the syllabus for a particular subject ask your parents to take a test. You will know your positive and negative points. Work on those negative points.

8. PRACTICE PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTION PAPERS

Once your syllabus is done. Revision done then starts to solve previous year question papers. This will give you the idea regarding paper patterns. 

9. OUTDOOR PLAY

The most important part is to have outdoor play. Give your child sufficient outdoor play time. Allocate fix time say 2, 3 hours for outdoor play. This will refresh your brain, mind and your body too. 

10.  SLEEP 

Last but not the least sleep.

Sleep is most important. If your child is rested well then only they can study well. Try to have a fixed time for sleep up to 10:30 pm. Your child must have 9 to 10 hour sleep. Sleep always keeps your child fresh and energetic. 

You may like to read : 

6 Games to increase kids vocabulary 

How to study HISTORY with small kids

How to teach more than 30 words in 15 Minutes 

Conclusion

These are 10 simple study tips specially for primary students. But these will become a habit for them when they enter higher secondary grade. If parents are the one who help their child  then these tips will be helpful. 

Always have a routine for study, routine for play time and routine for good sleep. Set the routine as per your child day.  Your child will be happy and confident.

Special attention for parents 

# Please remember this is your kids exam and not your.

# Do not compare your child with the neighbor's child or even social media child.

# Keep home atmosphere light and filled with laughter. 

# Stop nagging your child. You are making them frustrated.

# Start early as much as possible to avoid last minute rush. 

# Help to clear out concept of your child calmly.

# Do not ask them to take help of gadgets. Primary students are little one and they can easily distracted with electronic gadgets. Make sure to keep them away. 

# Talk with your kid. Solve their problems again and again. Even if they ask you 10 times tell them 10 times without raising your voice.

# Keep your voice low 😜 yes it is bit difficult but try to talk in soft voice during study session.

Hope you find it useful. Share it with parents. 

Questions of the day

Do you like to help your kids or prefer tuition? 

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And She Succeed

 

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A girl's struggle start since the day she born. Then at every stage of her life she have to struggle to live her own life. Today I am sharing a story of a girl who struggle a lot to live happily. Her happiness is defines by her family and not by her and so the journey of struggle is never ending. This may be one of you. 

If being a girl you didn't experience any kind of struggle then you must be luckiest one. And those who succeed through the struggle Kudos to them for success. 

Always remember you are strong because you are a WOMAN 👠♀️

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Shruti is a smart intelligent girl who chooses fashion designing over engineering . Her parents insisted for engineering but She followed her passion.

Then like a good girl she married to a person who was 7 years older than her. Because her father wanted she should have an arranged marriage. Shruti was doing her internship at Mumbai but on one call from her father she dropped everything in the middle and went to her native places to marry a man who was chosen by her father and so by her too. She also liked him as a husband.

Initially her husband loved her so much. He still loves her but there is a huge difference in his and her love language. 

She is bold, open minded and straight forward. She expects little things from her husband like having a cup of tea, having chit chat with her, holding a  hand and walks etc.

While her husband is old fashioned. He is a purely male dominated person whereas he believes when he earns then her wife should be at home to take care of the house. He didn't care what she wanted to do. She should be at home for household chores like cooking, mopping, cleaning and also washing his undergarments etc. Even He agrees to have a maid but still he wanted shruti should stay at home. Whenever he came home he should see her face 😭

And then the quarrel started. With constant fighting they had a son too. Whereas her husband contributed zero percent towards the parenting journey and she handled it by herself. All alone, struggled to be happy mother.

Once her son started school she wanted to have her own boutique. She had it before marriage. The most luxurious boutique which was always filled with clients. She was one of the best designers at her native place. 

Now she desperately wanted to have her boutique again but the old fashioned husband was not ready to permit her. Because according to him she had zero knowledge in handling business and people. She was childish. So he did not allow her to sit on the counter to handle the query of clients.

Isn't it weird? 

She thought, he was taking care of her. 

After lots of fighting she started a fashion designing from her home only. Her business was blooming and she became one of the famous designer in her area again. She got a bunch of orders on festivals like Ganeshotsav, Navratri and Deepavali. 

Struggle, again, 

Narrow minded husband opposed her as usual. Because they had to celebrate all this festival with family at his native place.

Again she dropped everything and pretended to enjoy the festival fullest with her family. She was doing this every year. Just to have less tantrums of husbands and rest of family members. 

She was struggling to keep herself happy, to follow her passion but no one understands her. No one supported her.

They started to fights again. Many times her husband didn't respond or listened her. Infact they didn't have a normal communication because according to her he was far away to understand what she wanted. According to him she is immature childish girl. 

Struggle, never ending.

Her parents, in laws every one supported him. Everyone wanted Shruti should listen to him. Why she needs to do this work when her husband gives 10k as a pocket money. Why don't she stay at home?

She cried, frustrated and many times lost herself. She had to convince everyone. But no one was there to understand her, to support her, not even her parents.

Being a woman is a tough job where a woman can't live her life on her own terms.

With lots of fighting and lots of struggle she opened her boutique almost after 8 years. She didn't give up. She saved lots of money. She followed her dreams and  she was happy. Moreover she allowed her husband to choose the name for her boutique. 

Strange , right? Because she loves her husband. 

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Finally she succeed. 🎉🎊🎊

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What do you think? 

She won over him? 

She gets what she wants?

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There are many Shurti in our society who want to do something for themselves. 

But here I want to ask husbands, 

Why, you don't let your wife live her life?

Why can't a woman fulfill her dreams? 

Why can't she have her own money?

Why does she need to be dependent on Husband? 

Why she needs your permission? 

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 Wrap Up :  

There is struggle for every woman at every stage of life. Like Shruti we everyone has gone through the struggle. Life is difficult for girls. It will take a lots of time to change the society. Or may be not. 

But 

We as a girl, women always follow our dreams. Struggle is part of life. We learnt through our experience and we should never give up our dreams. 

Because dreams comes true. 

Believe Yourself!

I hope our society will change at least for our future generations. 

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Chaitybhumi

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It is not adventurous for you as a reader but for us being twin parents Yes! Adventure! Traveling with twin toddlers is quite adventurous because it is not easy when your stubborn toddlers are not ready to sit in a pram, not ready to walk , not ready to get down from your hand and not ready to eat anything. It is quite challenging and this year 2024 we decided to take them out as much as possible. 

Our first traveling spot within Mumbai. "Chaitybhumi"

For us Chaitybhumi is like a temple. We Buddhist used to visit this place right after our marriage, when our baby grew one year old and whenever we wanted to introduce our rituals to our children, the first place is always Chaitybhumi.

6th December is observed as Mahaparinirvan Din. Every year Millions of followers from all over India came here to pay homage to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on Mahaparinirva Din.

It is a pilgrimage site specially for Buddhist people. But it is open for everyone.

Okay.

What will you see at Chaitybhumi?

1) Chaitya Bhoomi hosts a memorial to Ambedkar and has been graded an A-class tourism and pilgrimage site by the Government of Maharashtra.

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2) Ashoka Pillar it is the main entrance of the Chaitybhumi and it is a replica of the stupa of Sanchi. 

3) The list of degrees of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. You will be surprised to see Dr. Ambedkar had 32 degrees.

4) Family Tree of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.  If you are curious to know about his Family history then you must see this family tree. 

5) The place is adorned with inscriptions and other markers commemorating Dr. Ambedkar's life and his dedication to the cause of social justice. Though there are few inscriptions but they are the major one in his social justice journey.

6) Statue of Gautam Buddha which is from Thailand. The statue is 7 ft and it is donated by Sanghkaya Foundation.

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7) Once you enter in the main building aka The prayer house which is circular domb shaped structure and at the centre there is statue of Gautam Buddha and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar where you can lit a candle.

8) Books :

You can get variety of books of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, historical, speeches of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, His articles, his work on social justice, books of Mahatma Phule, Buddhism etc. But all books are available in Marathi only. 

9) Statue of Gatuam Buddha and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. If you are looking for a statue for your home I will suggest you to check it here. You will get a variety of statues and photo frames at reasonable prices.

10) Other accessories for car, home entrance, white Mangalsutra, Ashok Stupa keychain, Dhammachakra Keychain and many more decorative items. 

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This is the most beautiful place where you can sit, take pics and adore the beauty of Sea.

11) Last but not the least Beauty of sea and Sea Link.

In the evening you will witness the beautiful view of sea link. Check out here.

Drawback: 

# This is a prayer house and lots of people come here from all over India. These people unable to keep the place clean. Every one whoever visiting any place should take care of their own litters.

#There is no proper arrangements for the garbage specially at Sea. 

# It is near the sea - Dadar Chowpaty and so it is filled with lots of garbage which floats with waves. There should be proper system for this garbage.

Where it is located?

At Dadar Chowpaty. From Dadar Station you can take taxi and stop is Chaitybhumi.

Conclusion: 

First time I took my kids at Chaitybhumi - prayers house. They enjoyed it. Elder one is very delighted to see the prayer house and she is surprised that it is totally different from the other temples. 

(No we didn't visit any temple with her except Shirdi.)

Chaitybhumi is one of the most devoted place for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's (architect of our Indian constitution) followers. Because we consider him" FATHER" who give us a life. To be a human and everything like - 

Right to drink water
Right to have a good meal,
Right to have education
Right to enter in a temple,
Right to participate in elections.

And many more. Theses are the basic but most important aspect which contributes to count as a human being.

Therefore you will see the millions of followers came here to paye homage to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

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FAQ : 

What is the significance of Chaitybhumi?

Chaitybhumi is the cremation place of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The monument more than a site of a prayer.

When was Chaitybhumi built?

The Chaitybhumi inaugurated on 5th December 1971 in the eve of 15 day of Mahaparinirvana. 

What is Ambedkar Mahaparinirvana?

Ambedkar Mahaparinirvana is death Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is observed on 6 December of every year.

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BLW : Pink Paratha (9 months +)

Paratha is always my family's favourite breakfast though I made it once in 15 days. I don't want them to get bored by eating the same food again and again. But this paratha can be served to adults too. Increase the quantity of spices and add whatever you want to add to enhance the taste like green chilli, chat masala, red chilli powder etc. 

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Pink Paratha means it is made up of beetroot. To enhance the taste I also added carrot because carrot is my babies favourite food. This is my trick - whenever I want to introduce any new food I try to mix them with their favourite food. Chances are they will eat the food. 😇

These recipes can be given to 9 months onwards. Skip salt and red chilli powder for baby below one year old. I am using salt and basic masala for my toddler food because they also eat from our plates. Use a pinch of black pepper and garam masala it enhances the taste and this is the way you introduce masala to your baby. 

BEET CARROT PARATHA 🥕🌰

Ingredients: 

1/2 boiled and grated beetroot

1/2 boiled and grated carrot

1 TSP  crushed kasoori methi

Fistful chopped coriander leaves.

1/4 tsp garam masala

1/4 tsp black pepper powder

Salt as per taste 

1 and 1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1 tsp malai from milk to knead the flour

Direction: 

1. Mix all above ingredients in a whole wheat flour and knead soft dough. 

2. Rest it for 15 minutes.

3. Roll out small parathas.

4. Roast it on hot tawa using butter.

5. Your pinkish beetroot paratha is ready. Serve it with curd.

Tips: 

If your baby is not ready to eat try to serve in very small portion. 

Keep on serving again and again they will definitely going to eat. 

Question of the day

Do you like to eat beetroot? 

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