On running a 100% women-led company | Conversation with Meeta Sharma

On running a 100% women-led company | Conversation with Meeta Sharma

Celebrating the power and beauty of women-run businesses with shumee's founder, Meeta Sharma.
March 08, 2021 — Soumya John
Designing play at home: Tips from an early years educator

Designing play at home: Tips from an early years educator

Ashrita Johnson is a passionate teacher, described by her six-year-old students as 'creative' and 'amazing', which she takes as the highest compliment. She is always designing play experiences at home...
February 25, 2021 — shumee toys
How do you prepare your child for a sibling?

How do you prepare your child for a sibling?

Tried and tested tips to get your older child ready to welcome their baby brother or sister!
Struggling with parenting during corona? 5 things to remind yourself right now.

Struggling with parenting during corona? 5 things to remind yourself right now.

Struggling with parenting during corona? Here are 5 things to remind yourself right now.
April 09, 2020 — Freelance Collaborator
Help your children face their fears and be more confident

Help your children face their fears and be more confident

How can you help your child with fears like these?

Ignoring or belittling their fears is not going to help kids overcome these fears. For kids, these are very real fears that need to be addressed and taken care of. Monsters under the bed may be imaginary but laughing at them or tough love approach may not make them go away and you will have a child who is

scared but has no outlet to express themselves. However, giving in to their fears and appeasement is not going to help either. For instance, if a child is afraid of dogs, letting that fear be and keeping them out of all situations with dogs is not recommended either.

February 24, 2020 — Suchismita Pai
Parenting guilt. Why parents feel guilty about little things and stress out.

Parenting guilt. Why parents feel guilty about little things and stress out.

Guilt makes us parent from a place of insecurity, from a place of fear and this sometimes colours the decisions we take or the way we behave. It also adds to the stress of parenting and a stressed parent adds to the stress of the child. In fact all the negative emotions we feel reflect in our parenting and will have an impact on our child.  It is not easy but looking at the triggers and working on them will help.
February 03, 2020 — Suchismita Pai
Why a family meal is important for kids and families.

Why a family meal is important for kids and families.

What do family meals mean to the family?

They help build relationships. When you eat together you see one another over a comforting plate of food and bond with one another day after day. You talk, laugh or even argue, get to know one another and observe how the other behaves, building a relationship as you go. 

Inculcate better manners and politeness. When you eat together, you learn how to behave at the table. You listen politely, eat properly, answer questions and learn by observation. 

November 11, 2019 — Shumee Toys
Unconditional Parenting - How to parent without the carrot or the stick!

Unconditional Parenting - How to parent without the carrot or the stick!

Let the love be unconditional – Withholding approval may seem like withholding love especially to growing kids. So the punishment for undesirable actions and praise for what we feel is desirable are both making the love conditional. They will look for praise or rewards in the case of positive reinforcement, and look to avoid unpleasantness in the case of punishment.

Instead of praise try description – Hey, I see you did your homework! Cleaned your plate! Or whatever they did is much better than effusive praise for doing what they must do to grow up well.

November 04, 2019 — Suchismita Pai
How to deal with kids tantrums, emotional outbursts and more – with love.

How to deal with kids tantrums, emotional outbursts and more – with love.

Toddlers, terrible twos, terrible threes, and tantrums – there is more there than just alliteration! While young children are learning to communicate they often do not have the right words or get overwhelmed with complex emotions and cannot do so in an appropriate way. How then can you decipher what they want / what they mean and what you could do to make life less filled with stressful moments?