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Last evening a set of books, not crayons, arrived in mail. As soon as we opened the books, my little boy and I were intrigued by the innovative visuals (letter format) and story line (crayons talking to a boy). For someone, who always believes that stories are best way to instill new behaviours or teach values to small children, it was delight to see many different behaviours, perceptions, and mindsets attacked in the book series, in a fun and humourous way. From breaking gender stereotypes (pink is not only a colour for girls and princess), taking good care of personal belongings (not peeling off the cover or clothes of crayons as they would feel embarrassed or leaving crayons in dirty socks), competition is not always good (fight between orange and yellow colour to be the colour of sun and then finally melting down under the sun), to equal love for all big and small things (grey is also colour of small things, like stones and pebbles, and not just big things like elephants). I loved the fact that the text associates colours with real life objects (pea green). It motivated my toddler boy to pull out crayons from his crayons box and match with the colours on book, only to discover that colours have different shades like maroon and burnt sienna. Our life has definitely been more colourful since the Day the Crayon’s Came Home as my boy continues to play the matching game and we hope that we never see The Day Crayon’s Quit in our life! Highly recommend! #oliverjeffers #lovetoread #loveforcolours #breakinggenderstereotypes This Sunday morning, we decided to have breakfast with butterflies at the Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary in Delhi. With 1500 varieties existing just in India, there is perhaps no better way to learn about or appreciate variety of colours and patterns that exist in this universe than observe the beautiful butterflies. While we learnt many other exciting things about butterflies, from their sleeping patterns to eating habits, during our nature walk, the visual aesthetics of their designs struck the most. Awed by the colours that complement each other beautifully and exotic patterns, my little boy wanted to paint some of the beautiful butterflies he saw after coming home. As for me, I built a new found appreciation for the colours black and white as the prettiest I saw was not a shade of orange, yellow, or pink! #learnfromnature #breakfastwithbutterflies #beautifulbutterflies #visualaesthetics #familytime #loveforblackandwhite #colours&patterns #naturelovers Most children can be taught to play chess when they are about 5 or 6 years old, but my 3 year old and I had a lot of fun pasting the white squares in alternate positions while creating the game for the cover of our next Lit Tale - My Indian Games. While running his little fingers up and down, over and over again, on the “alternate” white squares, he discovered that numbers do not necessarily follow the sequence of “1,2,3…” . The design of the game can be used to explain many different number related concepts to kids in a fun way. My greatest joy though will come the day I am able to inspire young boys and girls to create and play this game of honour, strategy, and pride with their parents. To preserve the culture of indoor games and enjoy some great bonding time together! #learnfromgames #familybonding #genderneutrality #indoorgames #litjoys This long weekend, marking India's 70th independence anniversary, we decided to take a nature break by traveling to Ramgarh, a quaint town nestled in the Himalayas in the Uttaranchal region, where the great Indian poet, Rabindra Nath Tagore, often found inspiration for his poems. Mesmerised by the beauty, purity, and quietness of our surroundings, I tried to make my son appreciate a variety of birds & butterflies, flowers & fruits growing on trees during our nature walks. But it was a creepy crawly creature, with 8 long legs spread around in a circle, that caught his fancy. So one fine night when he was fussing over dinner, and I did not have access to our usual eating aids (books, everyday objects) and could not remember the famous nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider, I was left with no choice but to coin a tale of 3 spiders hiding in various props of different sizes in the dining hall. At the end of it all, it not only turned out to be a story which he wanted to hear over and over again, but also the best and the easiest way to explain him the concept of relative sizes - big, bigger, biggest as we observed and documented spiders of different sizes. #litjoys #tagore #spiderlove #toddlerjoy #himalayas #storymaking #powerofstories #learnfromnature I have been fascinated with the concept of time and timepieces since I was a child. Partly because I grew up watching clocks and watches more than 50 times in a day thanks to my extremely time conscious father. But also because I loved gazing at the sun, stars, and moon and playing with shadows, all phenomena governed by time! So when I stumbled upon the astronomical clock while walking the streets in a recent trip to Prague, I was filled with awe and delight. Climbing up the tower to purchase a similar looking clock for home was more enjoyable than getting a bird's eye view of the city. The greatest joy though came when I realised that some of the most interesting facts linked to the animals are related to the concept of time while designing the next book on African Safari. Here was my opportunity to redesign the clock finally! To help little ones understand that there are 24 hours in a day, though most clocks and watches they see around show 12 hours, the difference between day and night hours, and how different eating, drinking, and sleeping, patterns of animals are from us humans. #litjoys #time #earlychildhoodlearning #animallover Child when I see the world through your eyes, I realise there is joy in experiences. Joy in spotting a new bird, feeding an animal, running around the beautiful flowers in a garden, counting the flags on buildings while riding the bus, much more joy than a perfect photo in front of a monument. And the world expands for us. Introducing travel diary for 18 different countries across the world to help you and your little ones expand your worldview, learn about a new country or record your travel memories. #lovetotravel #traveljoy #positiveparenting #travel

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