Anger
Punishment and penance.
My method of resolving conflict with those that I truly love and care ...
Gifts/Presents
Age is just a number?
In which Kymaia attempts choosing a gift for her Aji's 73rd and tells ...
Emotion(s)
Heartbreak, motorcycling, and strawberries.
Some online friends worried why I haven't written for a while. And we ...
Morality
Good lie. Bad lie.
Kymaia learns an important moral lesson that lying isn't always bad. And guarding ...
Love
A letter from Team Kymaia.
As Kymaia grows towards puberty, we, her parents, remind her that while she ...
Insight
The man in the mirror.
Our self-image and the one we see in photographs seldom matches. But when ...
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 ...
Social Media
Lonely Hearts Club, FB.
Why do otherwise sane, smart, rational-thinking people fall for honeytraps on social media? ...
Aviation
The Jumbo and I.
Boeing retired its 747 series Jumbo jets and delivered the last one. I ...
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 ...
Hero(es)
A football fan is born!
My mother wanted to watch the FIFA World Cup 2022 finals between France ...
Empathy
Social media. Icebergs. Elephants. And nuclear bombs.
I realise that the haste in which we bestow the status of a ...
Bias
The self-delusion of smart people.
Smart people have a disadvantage when it comes to stupid life decisions: They ...
![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)
