Posts Tagged ‘children’

Grandma’s Bag of Stories

Writer: Sudha Murty Publisher: Penguin India Category: Children/Fiction Ratings: 4/5 Sudha Murty is the chairperson of Infosys and wife of Narayan Murty. But it is her writings and her ideas that make her brilliant. The novel released last year is only an example of her prolific ideas. Grandma’s...
February 9th, 2013 | Book Reviews | Read More

Parents want their child’s portfolio by professional photographers

Times of India: Their chubby cheeks and dimpled chins are captured for posterity’s sake. The only difference being that it’s no longer mom and dad clicking away, but the city’s professional photographers. And though it costs a pretty packet, no one’s complaining.
August 4th, 2010 | Lifestyle | Read More

Parents can get day-to-day updates about their children through R-Fi technology

Pune Mirror: Now parents can keep a track of their kids performance at school through their mobile phones. Not only this, they can also get an alert when the child reaches school and when he/she leaves the school premieses.
May 3rd, 2010 | Tech | Read More

Creches install CCTV cameras to enable parents to see how their children are doing

Mid-day: Worried how your children are doing at the creche whilst you flit from one meeting to another? Wish you had magic vision to ascertain that all is well anytime you feel like it?
March 17th, 2010 | News | Read More

Parents make children earn their pocket money

Indian Express: A few follow the time-tested method of making children earn their pocket money, to teach them its worth.
February 19th, 2010 | News | Read More

Clinical trial of swine flu vaccine on children will begin in February

Mid-day: The 14-week clinical trial of swine flu vaccine on healthy children will begin in the second week of February.
January 22nd, 2010 | News | Read More

Roads less taken

The Times of India:  Her idea of community service goes a little beyond the usual. Apart from being meaningful, she believes, it should also be fun. In fact, Sheetal Kharka, founder-cum-managing director of the Innocent Heroes Foundation an organisation that serves as a bridge between the corporate...
October 26th, 2009 | News | Read More

Survey to understand why children do not attend school

Indian Express: “My parents fight often. I have two younger brothers and if I go to school then they cry,” says eight-year-old Rati (name changed) from Mangalwar Peth. Rati has been irregular at the Pune Municipal Corporation’s school and was among the several who were identified...
September 15th, 2009 | News | Read More

Working parents face problems as childcare centres shut down

Indian Express: When her childcare centre told her on Tuesday morning that it was shutting down for seven days due to the H1N1 virus spread, Usha Iyer was at her wit’s end. Her three-year-old daughter Aishwarya could not be left alone at home; nor could Usha carry her to work. “I work at a call...
August 12th, 2009 | News | Read More

Purandar taluka shows way in fighting malnutrition among kids

Indian Express: Even as the country is in the nascent stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child’s growth laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently, Purandar taluka in Pune district has taken up a project of monitoring 154 children with ‘stunted’ growth.
July 24th, 2009 | News | Read More
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