At one point of time, V wanted to visit the penguins in their natural environment (more on that in the following posts). We told her it was too far and cold there. She couldn’t understand, and ultimately, we had to pull out an atlas and show her the different habitats, distance between places, etc. She let the argument rest, but was fascinated with all the different countries and places.

When we took her on her first and only international trip, she was stoked to find some animals she hadn’t seen before, but the question of why they weren’t found everywhere remained. She joined the dots and figured the whole habitat-country connection. Also, the fact that when a relative visits a particular country or place, they bring back either a fridge magnet or animal soft toy from there, combined her 2 most loved animals and geography, and got her obsessed with this study.… Click to read the rest

As a new mum, nothing terrified me more than travelling alone with V by flight (nope, not even poop explosions!). See, the thing is, if you travel with a baby in a car or auto or train, you have the option to move around or pull down windows, basically you aren’t enclosed in a tiny space with either a baby who cries at the drop of a hat or a toddler who doesn’t stop talking. 

Anyways, when she was around 2 years old and I was the only adult travelling with her, to my parents’, I decided to give my full buckle carrier a miss because I knew she wouldn’t stay put. I chose an early morning flight so that she’d sleep through at least some parts of the journey. But, she wouldn’t sleep, and the questions kept pouring in. Sharing some snippets of our conversations below and leaving you to figure out the learning.… Click to read the rest