Advice
Advice to a budding chef.
As Kymaia takes up cooking as her next hobby/interest, I write to her ...
Religion
Asking Vithoba for health.
Kymaia wonders if walking for 21 days isn't good for health as is, ...
Parenting
Her seventh tantrum. And her eighth.
Kymaia slowly grows up, and we all feel the pangs and try and ...
Gifts/Presents
Age is just a number?
In which Kymaia attempts choosing a gift for her Aji's 73rd and tells ...
Morality
Good lie. Bad lie.
Kymaia learns an important moral lesson that lying isn't always bad. And guarding ...
Emotion(s)
Malapropisms, anyone?
This morning, Kymaia showed me the mirror on anger and managing my emotions ...
Fun
Of Pancakes. Corpses. And Ciphers.
Baby and Baba bear breakfast on yummy pancakes and talk about secret messages ...
Love
A letter from Team Kymaia.
As Kymaia grows towards puberty, we, her parents, remind her that while she ...
Adventure
Three wheels to riding class.
We take an autorickshaw to Japalouppe, where Kymaia learns to ride horses. Fun ...
Adventure
How to do a Sunday morning, Bear style.
The Bear family does Sunday as it ought to be done, with a ...
Joy/Happiness
The tiniest paws around the tummy!
The face when Baby bear puts her tiny little paws around my fleshy ...
Empathy
Our conscience-keeper.
Kymaia has emerged as the most empathetic bear in the Bear family. And ...
Fun
Baba & baby bear’s day out.
Writing a story together, and then, giggling, dancing, and listening to loud music ...
Insight
How a ‘good job’ leads to a good job.
This morning's endurance run with Kym made me realise how much motivation matters.
Adventure
Mumbai trip via the Vistadome.
Mamma bear planned and executed a trip for the entire Bear family to ...
![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)
