Skill
Learning to present.
We learn how to visualise, research, structure, make, edit, and finally present on ...
Advice
Advice to a budding chef.
As Kymaia takes up cooking as her next hobby/interest, I write to her ...
Fun
Of Pancakes. Corpses. And Ciphers.
Baby and Baba bear breakfast on yummy pancakes and talk about secret messages ...
Democracy
My Republic Day 2023 wish.
I have never understood why history and civics are combined in Indian schools ...
Empathy
We are all Mishrajis.
We Indians, and specifically privileged Indians, severely lack empathy.
Rant
Lunatics and the asylum.
You are no longer looking at lunatics from outside the asylum. You are ...
Parenting
Preparing Baby bear for camp.
We prepare Kymaia for her horse-riding camp, which will be a week away ...
Art
Kymaia <> Aarti (Storytelling)
Kymaia learns about storytelling as part of a special series in which she ...
Storytelling
Kymaia <> Anita (Travel)
Kymaia learns about travel and travel writing as part of a special series ...
Caste
The garib Brahmin and the Ivy League.
The myth of the 'garib Brahmin' and how reservations are the cause of ...
Experiment(ation)
Kymaia <> Swati (STEAM)
Kymaia learns about STEAM and makes some art as part of a special ...
Kymaia
WACKy Talks: Sep-Oct-Nov 2022.
In the first of such series, Kymaia gets to meet interesting and successful ...
Opportunity
Homeschooling: Calling for interesting people.
We take the next step in homeschooling and call for interesting people doing ...
History
My independence day radio interview.
A historian cancelled an interview on the local radio, and I was pulled ...
Friendship
To Bikers’ Creed: Gratitude.
I am full of gratitude for my biking club, for having shown me ...
Conversation
Baby bear’s sex education.
Little Kymaia reads Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens' and gets stuck at the classification ...
![Mr Baba: 'Would you like to take off the backpack now that you've been downstairs for like 30 minutes?'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'I like it like this. You should try it. It's very comfortable.'
Mr Baba: [Pulling on his backpack] 'Hmmm, you're right. That's rather snug.'
Ms Kym-Kym: 'Twinning! Yay!'
#LuckiestManAlive #BearFamily](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416920031_3373151642830342_6696851954454537274_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=ZMLmjPdSAEUAX8nnJex&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfB0olvUVmnenPKd2wCllMDehg5gzDgAbc4BDsGLqIm6pA&oe=65BA4561)
![Kym: 'Mr Baba, can I tell you something wierd? You can actually get tired from doing nothing!!'
Me: 'It is called boredom.'
Kym: 'Noooo. I mean, like physically tired.'
Me: 'One can get tired and sleepy due to boredom. I remember reading about it somewhere. Let's find out.'
[Some Googling later]
Me: 'It says here that "A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications finds that a part of the brain that is associated with motivation and pleasure - the nucleus accumbens - also can produce sleep. The new findings may explain why we have the tendency to fall asleep in the absence of motivating stimuli, i.e., when bored." Isnt it interesting?'
Kym: 'I already knew that. Why do you need to research things we already know?'
Me: [Finding a subject worth talking about now]: ' Ah well, that's what we'll talk of tomorrow on your morning run. It's very interesting the way science is done and our understanding of the universe is expanded.'
Kym: 'Can we talk of unicorns instead?'
Me: 'Sure. How do you know they exist? That's an interesting question too that you can use the scientific method to answer.'
Kym: 'Do they have to exist for us to talk about them? We can just pretend they do for an hour and have fun.'
Me: [Laughing] 'Yes, sure. We can do that too.'
#BabaBabyConversations #BearFamily #KymAndI](https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/416410840_383105434396466_2267910263456009774_n.webp?stp=dst-jpg&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=LIozs445JFcAX_48wGC&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfDQ2qbb0yO_wUmLj_L0ZxF61eDdwlIN-vyrd8GZe_pBMQ&oe=65BAFA57)
