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Online dictionaries are abundant. But their biggest drawback is their dependence on an active internet connection. When the internet connection is down these dictionaries become useless. This is when offline dictionaries come helpful. So here I have compiled 5 popular and very handy free dictionaries for Windows.
Update: See Artha, Open Source Offline Thesaurus and Dictionary
1. Wordweb Free Dictionary
Wordweb is probably the best freeware dictionary out there. WordWeb is available as a powerful Pro version and a cut down free version. The free version is used by millions of people from all over the world, many of whom may not be able to afford a commercial dictionary.
It sits in the system tray and can be launched from within any program. Wordweb by default integrates into MS Word and gives you a one click access to it from within Word. Apart from definitions, Wordweb shows you synonyms, related words and the root of the words. Wordweb has more than 150 000 root words and 120 000 synonym sets.
2. TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus
TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system.
TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc ) and is 100% portable. You can just copy it to your pen drive and take it along with you.
TheSage allows you to look up words directly from most applications, offering multiple detailed definitions each coupled with its own thesaurus. It has over 145,000 references with multiple detailed definitions (over 200,000) and a complete thesaurus with nearly 1,200,000 relationships between definition. TheSage has a tabbed interface, which is a rage these days, and supports wildcard search which is extremely helpful.
3. Stardict
Stardict is a free open source off-line dictionary program that allows you to use all those free dictionaries (at the moment more than 100 dictionaries are available). StarDict is just a dictionary shell, so when you download it you have no dictionary that comes along. You have to install dictionaries yourself.
Stardict supports an interesting search concept called Fuzzy query. When you can't remember how to spell a word exactly, you can try StarDict's Fuzzy query. It uses "Levenshtein Edit Distance" to compute the similarity between two words, and gives the match results which are most similar to the word that you input. To create a fuzzy query, just input the word with a beginning "/", and then press Enter.
4. Everest Dictionary
Everest Dictionary has a total of 35 dictionaries available to date. It's possible to search words across multiple dictionaries. It also monitors the clipboard; in any program, a simple copy of the word to the clipboard using "Copy" command will launch the automatic search of the word in the dictionary.
5. tinySpell
tinySpell is not exactly a dictionary, it's a spell checker. The reason I've included this on my list is because we often look up a dictionary not to learn it's meaning but to check it's spelling, don't we?
Occasionally you need to check spelling in an application that does not include a spelling checker and you don't want to launch your word processor just for that. This is when tinySpell becomes handy. It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application.
The most useful feature of tinyspell is it's on-the-fly spell check. tinySpell can watch your typing on the fly and alert you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard. tinySpell installs itself in the system tray for easy access. It comes with an American-English dictionary containing more than 110,000 words. tinyspell is a must have addition to your (already cluttered) system tray.
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- AnonymousJuly 14, 2010 at 8:16 AM
I have to say also, that I am very thankful for the post. It is very difficult to find off-line dictionaries and application-independent spellers.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousAugust 16, 2011 at 10:51 AM
I've been using WordWeb for the last 2 years, and it has always been free. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousOctober 10, 2011 at 8:56 PM
I used to use an online dictionary, but I can not use it when my computer gets offline. Now I can use WordWeb. Thank you so much.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 2, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Thanks for the post! It was useful. ' was looking for an offline dictionary.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJanuary 20, 2012 at 8:53 AM
great post...i also use wrldweb..when i installed yesterday it says only 30 day trial period..thnks anyway
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Am very thankful for the sage I've just downloaded and am sure it will be of great help to my family and that people around me.More when I start using it.Shalom
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 7, 2012 at 11:35 PM
I use this great English dictionaries app:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neomigpibafpboiknmijddgnncengfnm - AnonymousJune 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM
I will try it to use whenever my computer is off line.But it will more difficult to get dictionary with audio .
ReplyDelete - AnonymousSeptember 28, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Thank you for the info. Free version of TheSage seems to be a nice one. I had the WordWeb with pronunciation capability installed before and this one has a nicer interface but no voice. Great apps anyways. Thanks again.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 9, 2012 at 2:57 AM
wordweb is perfect but i'm gonna try out stardict . thanx
ReplyDelete - AnonymousDecember 14, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Microsoft Works came installed on my computer and an excellent dictionary programme was included with that. Problem is, when I upgraded to Win7 Pro I cannot find a download anywhere on the web. Works Dictionary was something I pinned to the taskbar and was the msost-used programme on my PC.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 29, 2013 at 8:16 AM
Thank you for sharing.I've been searching for this so long.
ReplyDelete StarDict dictionary can't be downloaded(Instead the so directed site offers other downloadable dictionaries ).Wordweb and Sage's are awesome.Tinyspell is also good. Everest Dictionary also fine.
Overall the Collection of 5 Free Offline Dictionaries are MUST GIVE A TRY softwares. Thank you to the entire Site owners.


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It's been a while since we heard from the developers at Magnetk, but they've just released version 1.3 of Expandrive with some new functionality. They're calling it a beta to be safe, but it seems to just be cautious labeling; 1.3 has been very stable for me thus far. As a quick review, Expandrive allows remote SFTP volumes to be mounted in the local filesystem (similar to what's possible with MacFUSE, but with several stability and speed improvements). The biggest change in version 1.3 is probably the inclusion of FTP and FTPS as an addition to the SFTP capabilities. While it may seem strange to some, there are certainly still circumstances where this could prove very useful.
UPDATE: the developers have clarified for me that the 1.3 release is not in beta, only the FTP/FTPS capability.
Among the other features the developers are excited about is a new system for testing network state. One of the things I like about Expandrive is its ability to seamlessly maintain a connection on my laptop when I shut it, move it and change wireless networks. Well, that capability has been improved at the system level to better detect network availability, IP address and sleep state, and I'm seeing really stable performance with it.
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Anyone know anything about this mod at all? I believe its fitted to later models where you just tap the indicator stalk and it gives you 3 flashes of the indicator which ever way you've tapped it. I know of someone who retro fitted it to his S2 but I don't have any more info Cheers Si
I have this on my list of bits to fit at some point. Around £50 iirc and wires up behind the hazard switch via a little patch / pass through cable
I know what your talking about. I've used it a couple of times on my mates car when I drive that and it annoys the pants off me. Once you press it there is no way to cancel the 3 blinks. It keeps going. right pain if your saying thanks to a truck or someone or just moving quickly. Can't you flick the indicator 3 times with your finger?
Had it on my last 4 company cars, i like it. And for the record, you can cancel it, just move it the other way, well at least you can on the last 3 ford mondeo's and my current exeo. Would be interested to know how to retro fit it to the wife's car.
Noooo, that's far too like hard work I do a lot of motorway miles so I just thought it would be handy to have Do you have any more info Mark? is it an Audi part or something after market? Si.
Here is the ebay link to what mark is talking about VW Golf Bora Passat - One Touch Comfort Indicators Kit on eBay (end time 06-Apr-11 20:00:00 BST) Do you have Cruise Control? Get that fitted. I love traveling on the motorway now.
theres a slightly differnt part number that just comes with bare wires rather than pissing around with the wiring at the hazard switch you can just tap in at the indicator stalk. And you can fit cruise, i did it on my old 1.8T with cable throttle. Havent fitted it to the TQS as i need a different stalk than the one i have.


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Do you remember where you learned the phrase "I'll be your best friend!!" in that sing-songy annoying manipulative voice? Me neither, but I knew it, and I used it. Now my toddler does too, much to my dismay. The more my toddler goes out into the world, the more exposed he gets to 'stuff.'
I have no intentions of sheltering him in any way, and I want him to experience life not just from me and his Dad, but from his teachers and his peers. Since the Shnook has started school, he's already come home with lots of new games, quotes, songs, and ideas. Most of these are really awesome, and I'm glad he's learning them. Others, well, I guess it's inevitable. Here are some I didn't teach my toddler, but somehow, he learned anyway.
This where I really need to learn how to let go, right? What has your toddler learned that you didn't teach him or her?
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01-04-2009, 06:34 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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| Fallen off the wagon after 8 months sobriety....does anybody have any advice please?
Hi to whoever is reading this I am a 25 yrs old female and i have been sober for over 8 months and have been drinking for around 10 years. This is the longest ive been sober in my life. During the 8 months I have been working very hard on myself, trying to make myself happy and have been reading lots into buddhism and trying to change my life for the better. I have been out many times in situations where i used to get drunk and have felt proud when i get home and realise i havent had any alcohol and ive seen friends drunk and felt pleased that i wasnt like that. I have worked SO hard over the past 8 months. But lately, i have felt empty, unhappy, like life is dull and flat and. Working on myself and trying to be happy doesnt seem to be doing much like it used to and i feel like my life is dull. Even when i do things like going out and socialising, i just dont feel like i enjoy it. New years eve i went away to stay with a friend and allowed myself to be talked into drinking. It just felt like i didnt care about being sober anymore. "i feel depressed already, so what difference will having a few drinks make?" (One of the reasons i quit drinking was because it makes me feel depressed). I am a very shy person and i have been trying so hard to change and be more relaxed without using alcohol/anything else, and i felt ok doing this in the beginning and felt really happy in the first few months, but lately, i just feel like i am fake, not being myself etc. And i really hate myself!! and feel guilt over every little thing. I just feel like such a terrible person and i dont want to be. I feel lately like the reason i quit alcohol was to stop these kind of feelings, but now i realise that i have them without the alcohol, so why not drink a little and enjoy myself more, than make myself feel more miserable by not drinking? I had 3 pints of magners (cider) on new years eve from about 10pm to 3am. I didnt really feel the urge like i normally would to get out if my face, and i just stopped after my 3rd pint (even though i got bought a 4th...i just left it) because i didnt want to feel rough and paranoid and anxious and regret what ive done (how i feel the next day)........ i just wondered if anyone has ever quit drinking for a period of time and then been able to go back to drinking occassionally and say like that? I have only ever heard of people goimg back to drinking ans ending up as they were before. It was strange for me to want to stop drinking and its made me wonder if ive changed. or am i kidding myself? i honestly dont know. is all the effort i put in over the past 8 months wasted? or can i continue being sober and still be at the stage i was a few days ago or does it all the work have to start all over again? has anyone else "fallen off the wagon" and have any advice they can share with me? Thanks loads :-) |
01-04-2009, 06:48 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Hi Cherry! I too fell off the wagon, after 5 years. I started up three months ago and I can tell you, the first day I drank I just had one or two. The next day..three or four. And it progressed from there. Withdrawls were horrible just like it was 5 years ago. It truly is a progressive disease. I drank for about 15 years before I quit the first time. I don't want to ever go back to those 15 years. It was true insanity. I was married three times and hurt so many along the way, but most of all I cheated myself out of those years. Those past five years have been the best in my life and I do not want to let these past three insane months bring me back to the hell I was living. I want to be here for my kids, my ill parents, and want to live the life my God wants me to live. Please don't give up......but please don't ever think that you can drink "normal" again. If you are truly an alcoholic, you can't. :ghug |
01-04-2009, 06:55 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Cherryxxx, Yes, I have seen people drink too much for a long while, stop for a while, and then drink moderately. Those changes often occur at about your age. There is even a diagnosis in the psych manual for that kind of abusive drinker. Others never find the "moderate" switch and become alcoholic - we have to quit entirely or it does terrible things to us. When I stopped drinking I felt as if I had lost my best friend. My friend that could make me feel better. (My problem was that my friend was ruining my health and all my other relationships, and was on track to ruin my career and cause legal problems). I WAS depressed. I got medical help for the depression, counseling and participation in a program of managing this disease I have. I didn't drink for over 14.5 years, then drank again for about a year and a half. Now I've stopped again for about a year and a half. When I need a friend I am forced to turn to people instead of my buddy "Leinie". IMHO, you didn't do anything evil by drinking. I don't think you lose what you learn just because you had some cider. The point is what you do going forward. You might want to get a medical evaluation if you haven't had one to help you see what your situation is. Many people find a 12-step or other support group to be a godsend. (I love AA myself, but I wouldn't say it's for everyone, and it's sure no hotbed of mental health). Best of luck to you Fen |
01-04-2009, 06:56 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Thanks loads for your reply onecent. It has helped remind me that i want to stay sober and why i worked so hard in the first place. The 10 years of drinking were insane, i get what you mean. Many regrets. You have made me start thinking about why i quit in the beginning. Thanks :-) I remember also, that when i have been sober in the past, i started off with one or two drinks and it went the same way you described. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Hope you get on well with your sobriety x |
01-04-2009, 07:02 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Oops! I was so busy composing my deathless prose <G> that I missed your mention that you don't agree with AA. I do beg your pardon if I came across as pushing AA, I really wouldn't do that and totally respect your decisions. Again, best of luck!
01-04-2009, 07:18 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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I fell off the wagon many times.In fact every time I crawled on it I fell off.My drinking always got worst.Finally one day when I was 33,I raised my white flag of surrender.I had tried to put human efforts into a illness that was beyond human help and I failed at that too.There was only one place left for me to turn,and that was AA.I see you do not like AA.Have you been to a meeting or are you forming a idea based on others experience and what they may say?It helped me,it even saved my life. The things you have tried seem to not be working.Remember,when all else fails,try AA. I wish you the best on your search-keep coming back Tommy
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It's worked for me for over 9 an a half years. Changing your life style with or with out AA is something you'll have to work on what ever you do.
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01-04-2009, 08:16 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Cherry, Allow me to tell you of an all too recent experience. After about 100 days of sobriety, I fell off the wagon. I felt as if I totally failed and gave completely up on quitting. I drank 3 or 4 beers a night, thinking that wasn't too bad. About six months later, I was drinking more on a regular basis than I ever have. The scary part came with realizing how much I had progressed. I could drink a pint of brandy, several beers, and wash it all down with a half pint of schnapps—but I didn't feel "drunk." So I drank more and more each night. Now I am back. There is absolutely no question in my mind that an alcoholic will never be able to control the addiction. It will, without fail, progress until it kills us. I wake at 03:00 in the morning, sporting a fuzzy head and realizing this destiny. It just isn't worth it.
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01-04-2009, 09:08 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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Hi Cherry! Welcome!!! I know that you said that you do not like AA but I just have to share for me that my life began to change when I started working the steps of AA, not when I quit drinking. To be honest, if all that had changed was my state of sobriety, I would be miserable. I need recovery. Drinking is but a symptom for me. My real problem is my thinking. Have you thought about other programs of recovery if you do not like AA? There is lots of information here on other programs. Best of luck to you!!! |
01-04-2009, 09:25 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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Knowing I cant drink alcohol for that same reason you cant drink it.. I need to address were the real problem is.. Between my ears.. How can I stop starting. For me .. I tried AA and its worked so far. I hope you find something that works that you can agree with. Sounds like you want sobriety bad.
01-05-2009, 01:49 AM | #15 (permalink) |
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Glad to see the advice you are getting here and that it is apparently helping you get your head back in the sobriety game. It must be hard for you to be so young (when everyone around you is all about partying) and stay sober. I'm not an alcoholic or addict myself, so I only pose the following to provoke thoughts, not as advice of judgement - - but consider this: maybe you can drink "normal" again, or maybe you will be like others here who dropped even lower than their previous low in record time. My question is this: since the only way to find out is to learn the hard way.............DO THE POTENTIAL RISKS OUTWEIGH THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS? It's the old school pros vs. cons, but I think you'll find the answer presents itself to you quite readily. Good luck to you in all your efforts!! |
01-05-2009, 02:03 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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I drank again after 6 months sober, for a while I could drink without too many consequences. It wasn't normal drinking but I could stop at a day or two of heavy bingeing and not even want to drink for a month...it wasn;t so bad really. Eventually it has got out of control again and I am having a really hard time stopping. Part of the reason I started again was that even at 6 months I still didn't feel as happy as I thought I should, I just felt flat and the honeymoon period and excitement of being sober had gone. I wish I had remembered how much I wanted and needed to stop before those six months...you must have wanted and needed to as well?
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01-05-2009, 06:43 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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"Working on oneself" is a fine endeavor, but taken to extremes, it becomes isolating. So long as I remained self-centered, I couldn't stay sober. I had to rediscover my connection to other human beings in a selfless way. How do you participate in the dance? Peace & Love, Sugah
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01-05-2009, 06:57 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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Hi Cherry the only experience i have of seeing someone that has stopped drinking for a period and gone back to drinking with the ability to control it is my Dad. He drank a lot when we were growing up and then he stopped for a bit (less than a year) and now goes out (i think hes 62 now) twice a week max. he goes out at 9.30pm as the pub he goes to shuts at 11.30pm (UK) and has a limit of 5 pints. You can see his mood change a bit when he gets to the 5th pint as he knows it is his last drink and you can almost hear the inner battle. He goes quiet and then its offski home. So this is a level of control, he has to be vigilant that he does not exceed the 5 pints and also that he goes out on just the 2 designated nights and feels proud of himself if he only goes out on one of them instead of the two in a week...'i only went out once last week'. How the hell is that different? Alcohol is still controlling his life completely, on the nights he doesnt go out he stays in so he doesnt drink like a prisoner in his own home. Works for him, IMO he is still a slave to booze and it's not for me! I can't see any difference between this and doing a fix twice a week! And he's totally miserable by the way and is still spouting the same old **** of how he could have done this and could of done that, it amazes me that someone can live 60 years and learn so little but there you go! So no you can't go back but you can let alcohol control your life in a different way IMO. |
01-05-2009, 08:37 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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Hi Cherry, Thanks for the thread- alot of good responses. I am at 168 days sober. I have never quit before and didn't try to control it when I drank. I basically binge drank on most occasions when I drank which was every weekend and any other day I had off of work. Some of the responces really hit home. I do think the risk of going back to where I was is greater than the reward of having a few drinks. I never want to be as drunk as I was when I was at my peak so I am not sure if it is possible to have a few. Also don't want to have to worry about controling it either. I do not attend AA for personal reasons but I do think attenders seem to be happier. Good luck and keep us posted. This thread has giving me some reassurance as to why I don't want to try to control it. |
01-05-2009, 10:27 AM | #20 (permalink) |
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Cherry imho you have not lost your sober time, you are just starting anew. I can only share my experience, when I was 24 I quit drinking for a year and a half, I changed a lot about me for a while and then things changed and life became boring, I started drinking again, just a little at first, then slowly I was right where I left off again and passed that point fairly quickly....... Well it continued to get worse until sometime in my late 30s, early 40s I would decide I had to control my drinking or stop, this went on until my mid 40s, then I reached the point where I had to drink every day just to function semi normal, I had to drink in order to exist. At the age of 52 I admitted alcohol owned me, I saw a doctor, he put me into detox, detox sent me to AA to stay sober. I am not saying AA is the only way, it's not, but it was the way for me, the program led me to become a different person, a person today who does not even view a drink as anything posotive for me, I can honestly say I could care less if I ever had a drink again today. The fellowship of AA has led me to some great friends who have found the same way to stay sober and live life with out drinking and be very happy livinig that way. If AA is not for you try other programs, the key I feel is not trying to fight this alone, but following the path that others before have followed. The program of AA with the help of others in the program have led me to the changes I need in me to stay sober and happy. BTW I am sure there are others who had drinking problems in their youth that were not alcoholics and have returned to "normal" drinking patterns, but I know for me, I am an alcoholic and I have no issue with not drinking, to me today drinking is a none issue..... I drink none and I am fine, I drink some and I am done!
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Okay, its raining tags, home works and colds (Runny nose and colds have started even before winter has set in. Nothing depresses me more than seeing the days get shorter.) in the UTBT household. Since I cannot do much about the latter two (except to complain, which I do a LOT to hubby. I act absolutely cool and matter-of-factly to others!), I decided to take action on the first one. For your information, my writing wheels are just not turning. If I had been writing on a piece of paper, there will be zillions of crumpled papers around me. But since technology offers me with the convenience of 'Undo typing' and 'Delete' I still end up with a blank document after lots of clicks on the key board->undo->type->delete. Booo hooo, a blank document gives me the idea of inaction; vs crumpled papers would give the impression of work in progress
At first I thought I would apologize to Swati and excuse myself from doing the tag for a couple of reasons. First one being, God this is complicated and I don't know how to get about it, I judge being judgemental. I know, full of contradictions, feel free to comment on it. I haven't worked this one out myself, so comments might clear it up! The second one is, it would bring the ugly side of me. I kept going back and forth and finally decided to do it.
As a rule I do not judge other mothers/their parenting skills/philosophies. My motto is 'whatever works'. Just because I do not like/want/do things a certain way, it does not mean that it is the only way. After long and hard thought there are two things that I am REALLY REALLY judgemental about.
Some people give unsolicited advice about adoption. Here you are going through (either personally or indirectly), the hardships to have a baby and some people have the nerve to suggest adoption. No, no, I do not have anything against adoption. It is just that the couples have to through the steps and finally decide for themselves what they want to do. You cannot put the adoption idea in to some one's head, it has to come to them! When I am talking about my personal pains, my longing to feel that small kick in my belly, at the end of the day sit on the couch with my feet up and my hands on my pregnant tummy, huff and puff for walking even a small distance, throw up every morning, feel like eating idli 24×7 I just want you to listen. All I am looking for is a shoulder to lean on. Please do not tell me 'You are being selfish. Adpot, there are so many needy children.' When I am out of denial and the whole emotional catastrophe, I will decide if I want to adopt. Also, the adoption advice really does not sit well when you have a litter of children of your own. Makes me think, that you talk the talk but cannot walk the walk.
Wow, that came out really strong. Lot of pent up feelings there huh?! The next one that drives me mad is when people tell me that they are busy. I admit every one is so wrapped in what they do. But the truth is it all boils to priorities. We have a relative living around the area where we live. But we do not know their address, phone number or any contact details. We heard from common sources (this relative's parents, grand parent, uncle with whom we are in touch) that this couple moved here. I was initially okay with the fact that the couple do not want to keep in touch with us. Just because we are related in some complicated way and we have met once, you don't have to find space from me in your life. But what gets me is this, every time we talk to the couple's parents or grandparent or uncle they all say the same thing, 'Oh, they are soooo busy'. I loose it completely. One day I wish I can work up the guts to tell these people, 'Stop making excuses. I am here juggling a family, two children, part time work, part time school, part time my own business. At this point of time, there is no way your son and daughter-in-law can be busier than me.' Till then I keep fuming to hubby that if I happen to walk up on them in a restaurant or grocery shop, I would play it cool and walk away pretending that I do not know them. Hmmmmhp, can I be any more pathetic???!
Okay, one down. Nick names tag, Chula's quirks and my quirks coming up shortly.
12 Sep 2007
This is Mieja speaking to you all for the first time. A special thanks to Kodi's mom for tagging me. K's mom, I must mail you a packet of sweets for pointing out that we second born children get sidelined. Truer words were never spoken. My amma, is so smitten with my older sister. Chula is all nice and interesting, I like her too. What I can't understand is my amma's obsession with her. May be its because amma thinks that Chula does lots more interesting things or may be Chula is in 'that phase', has a few meltdowns* under her belt that she needs a little bit more attention. But, to my defense, I do interesting things too! For instance last week, I ate a dead snail** (Tasted just like chicken – with a crunch of course. Not that I have ever eaten chicken, but that's what they say in the movies when they eat weird meat). And an impartial jury can vouch that I throw my share of tantrums. Hope amma changes, mean while I am counting on all of you for support.
I decided to copy Moppet and Ashu*** write the post by myself, because I don't want amma to put her Zen in to my simple pleasures†. I had been trying so hard for the past one week to do this post. But amma, on the pretext of doing her homework, was hogging the laptop 24×7††.
I love 'I scream' - No that is not ice cream. It is 'I SCREAM'. I have been doing this for the past 10 days and I have to admit, I am very kicked about it. Amma and my day care provider(M) are quite confused where I picked it from. Amma secretly thinks that I picked it from day care and M thinks I picked it from home. But I am having a ball. I just let out a shrill, loud, ear piercing, glass shattering, operatic scream every now and then. Amma complains to every one that she is going deaf from round-the-clock-screaming. Well, that is not true. I don't scream when I am sleeping. Only when I am angry, happy, frustrated, want to make a point, get attention, want something, sleepy, tired, bored, hurt, sad and hungry.
Hair Affair – Everyone, who knows me, has been comparing me with Chula and say that my hair is sparse. Amma also makes fun, 'Naathu natta madhiri yirukku'(Meaning: Farmers when transplanting the plants to the field, plant them far apart to increase their chances of survival. Amma says that my hair is planted really far apart, just like the plants! I get the hair gene from amma). So I have decided to take matters in to my own hands. Since I am not a big fan of eating food, I have decided to apply the nourishment my hair needs, directly to my hair. So what ever I see, be it fruits/veggies/porridge/vadai/yogurt/sand/diaper wipes/water/idli, I pick up with both my hands, squeeze, rub my hands together and then rub it on my head. I am quite pleased with the result.
Although amma thinks that my hair is to short to embellish it with clips and hair bands, I honestly think I am ready for it. What does the woman know, she let me eat dead snails for the love of God! So I pick up clips, hair bands, headbands and books (at times), place them on my head and walk around the house. I still haven't figured out if the accessories stick to the hair or it is just a matter of balancing them? I try my best to balance them, but no luck. I can't seem to keep the stuff on my head for more than two feet.
Reading and Writing: I generally prefer not to read. I strongly believe that by hearing you remember things for a few hours, by reading you remember for a few days, by seeing you remember for a few years, but by doing you remember for a lifetime. In our house I am the doer and Chula is the reader. Those rare moments I pick up a book, I always insist that I hold it upside down. Amma does not understand that I am trying to do 'thalai keezh paadam'(meaning: reading it thoroughly from top to bottom and viz. ) and keeps turning the book right side up. I reprimand her with one of my screams and turn the book my way. Same way I am obsessed that pencil and paper are a pair, one cannot exist without the other, not that I write on the paper with a pencil. I simply like to wave the paper and hear it rustling when I am munching the pencil's graphite tip or when I am scribbling on the wall.
Laughing: I like to laugh my heart out. Amma thinks that I laugh like P.S.Veerappa. Never mind her, we have already established that she does not know much. The most hilarious moments are those when I pull some one's hair. It is so funny, I cannot help it. In my day care, during nap time, after all the kids go to sleep, I get out of my crib and go around pulling all their hair and I do the laugh. All the other kids being older than I, I don't dare to attempt it when they are awake, because they would chase me away or swat me like a fly.
Folding my hands: When I am seriously observing someone doing something, I strike a humble pose by crossing my arms and observing them intently.
Folding clothes:I know I am supposed to write only 5 quirks, but cosidering how difficult it is for me to get to the computer, I want to add one more. I love to see my amma folding clothes, one reason is that it is so rare. I am more used to seeing piles of laundered clothes lying around for eternity. So when she does fold the clothes, I don't want the fun to end. She folds the clothes and puts them in different piles on the center table. When she is not looking I pick the folded cloth, shake it open and throw them back in to the laundry basket. The last time I did this, she wasn't too happy and asked me crossly for how long I had been at it. "Lady, come on, don't you know how many pairs of dark blue jeans you own? You must have realized what was happening when you folded the same pair twice.If it took you a while and folding the same jeans three times (or four, who is keeping count?) to figure it out what can I do?"
*God, whats with all that tears??? Sheer waste of energy. I can get amma, appa and the rest of the world dance to my tune without out shedding a single drop of tear. Now that is an effective tantrum. Chula, you can learn a thing or two from me.
** Pun from my amma's friend's husband – "UTBT you told Mieja 'naan vegetarian' (meaning: I am vegetarian) and she must have heard it as non-vegetarian"
***Copying is the deepest form of flattery, my amma says.
†I was just playing peek-a-boo. What does it have to do with trees? Next she will be associating my bodily releases with global warming. The woman simply thinks too much.
††It was literally 24×7, I checked. Day before yesterday I woke up at 12 midnight, 1.30AM and 2.00AM and she was sitting in the couch with the laptop glued to her, no prices for guessing, lap.
PS: I have learnt to say 'oh-oh'. I realized that I have to say that when I drop something. Since people find it too cute I have decided to keep them happy by dropping things on purpose and say 'oh-oh'.
Signing off with my motto: "Who says terrible twos start only at two. Two, three and four are mere numbers……"
4 Sep 2007
…that Chula is potty trained!!!
Well there are still some stray accidents (especially if she happens to be watching TV) and last friday, at her day care, she refused to get on the pot. But….I think she is ready.
Yesterday we went to a park with three other friends. We were there for 5 hours. She surprised by coming to me to tell that she needed to pee, held it in till I ran with her in my arms to the rest room and did her business where it is supposed to be done. Not once, not twice, but thrice folks. I now know how Edmund Hillary must have felt when he reached the top of Everest!!!
Proudest mom ever
1 Sep 2007
This is kind of a '?????????? ?????????' (blogs I enjoyed reading) post. Not that I didn't like the other blogs I read……
Me thinks this rocks, so do others
Absolutely incomparable. Thanks Poppin's mom, we all had a great time.
Blogs that got me thinking
TheMadMomma's point is {BEGIN QUOTE}"Funny how children can retain the weirdest and most distorted memories, despite the effort we make."{END QUOTE} It got me thinking how we as parents do things in the best interest of our children. Sometimes the children openly express their discontent, like mine did when I changed her car seat. But what if they jut go along with the change, only to retain it in their subconscious and let it surface sometime later? I have heard from friends who were middle children or had siblings who were middle children, complain that they never got any attention from their parents. Is it really true or is that the idea they formulated in their heads? As parents we already have this huge sword of guilt hanging above our heads. Even if no one else cuts the chord to that sword, we do it ourselves time and again and suffer because of it. What if the person who cuts the chord is the child himself/herself? Ouch, that's got to hurt!
Hey I was thinking along the same lines!!
…but couldn't have put it own so nicely.
Noon talks about gifts. After Mieja's star birthday, calendar birthday, our trip to India, hubby's visit to India for the his niece's wedding, 'just because' gifts from close family friends, Mieja has about 38 new dresses between 18 months – 2 years of age. There is no way she is going to wear it. So after great deliberation, I decided to recycle some of those. The hesitation was because I knew that it is bound to snowball on me some time. Finally, decided to go for it because these were perfectly cute clothes and were definitely expensive than the dolalr value I had in my mind. Finally it so turned out that the people who had originally gifted it to me had written their name on the tag where they print the dress sizes. I found out through a friend that my stupidity had been exposed….arrrghhhh…one of those moments I will remember for eternity because it was thoroughly embarrassing.
A friend was once telling me, {BEGIN QUOTE} how we always get expensive gifts, even if it is out of our price range, for people who have to all and end up giving mediocre gifts to the less affluent. Ain't the less affluent be getting the good stuff because they are the ones who need it badly? Some how the desire to get in to the good books of the affluent and expecting a gratitude of anything we throw at the not so rich is sickening.{END QUOTE}
I don't know, the whole charade of gift giving is getting too loopy and meaningless now a days.
Tharini's post on the day to day challenges that parents face. To discipline or not, if yes, how to? It inspired me to write a post on my own enlightenment.
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Read it and laugh, at Boo's expense of course! Only Boo can write such a witty post on how difficult it is to parent under 'watchful eyes'!
31 Aug 2007
This is pretty much a summary of what Mieja is doing at 15 months.
Wants me to be exclusive – Mieja was always side lined because when there is an older child in the house that tends to happen. But this one is no shrinking violet. She knows her way around things. She knows how to get the things she wants and when to pick her battles. If she wants to be carried, she will first scan the room to see what I am doing. If it looks like it is hard to get my attention, she will look who else is around, then analyze who is more likely to lift her, will run to them, wrap her little arms around their knees, lift her heels from the ground and say "Ummm". By no means it is a request, the "Ummm" is a command. If I am the only adult at home and I am doing something with Chula, she will wait till I am done with Chula and will come running to me and sit in my lap/ask to be carried. At that time if Chula comes back to sit next to me or even stand with in three feet of me, Mieja gets mad. She will point her chubby fingers at Chula and will complain. The next step will be pulling Chula's hair or pushing her away. Finally if nothing works, if I try to convince her that both of them can sit in my lap, Mieja gets up and walks away. Sometimes she engages herself in something, but at times she is REALLY mad, she would plop down against a wall and give me a cold stare. *Shudder*.
Action – She actions for a bunch of nursery rhymes. She can recognize Wheels on the bus tune anywhere. If she hears Barney tunes some where, she squeals with laughter. If she catches me picking up the remote, she drops whatever she is doing, runs to the TV and jumps up and down – of course with both feet planted firmly to the ground, because she thinks I ma going to switch on Barney. Chula has taught her to say 'Barney'(Oh it was cute. I was sitting at a tire shop to replace the hopelessly damaged tire of my Honda Odessy. Mieja was on my lap and Chula was standing with 'Family Fun' magazine. She picked Mieja's right pointer and placed it on Barney's picture and said, "Mieja yidhu Barney. Sollu Barney." And Mieja repeated "Baayee". Aww I smacked myself for not carrying a camera 24X7. )
Dance – The last CD I burnt at home was Ghajini. Usually it is some nursery rhymes or Hindi varnamala or Kadri's sax that plays in my car and I am so lazy that I would rather listen to the same CD for months together than invest 30 seconds in to changing it. I tried catching up on Shivaji songs and it is a huge hit with Mieja. Especially 'thee thee'. She stood by the laptop looking at it intently, shaking just her butt, till the song got over.
The happy helper – If I open the dishwasher, she will come running to help me unload it. There must be no time lag between she handing over the dish and me picking it up. If she senses a millionth of second delay, then she licks the dish. Every time she hands me something or I give her something she says 'Thenth thoo'. The dishwasher was a trip down nostalgia lane. Chula used to do the exact same.
Words – Few other words she says, amma(ofcourse), appppaaa, thaaath(thatha for grandpa), thaapi(patti for grandmother) and aththa(akka for elder sister).
Hi – If she is looking for me, after she find me, she smiles a wide smile waves her left hand and says a soft 'hiiiii'.
Misc – Last Tuesday the sisters had a huge falling out over a container of moisturizing cream. Mieja butted in and started snatching the cream and Chula started screaming. I got tired of explaining sharing and I bribed Chula with chapathi dough and roller. I was curious what Mieja wanted to do with the cream. She put it on the center table, pumped a small bit in to her left plam(!), rubbed both the hands together and massaged it in to her head. That she repeated for a zillion times. Then walked around with the nozzle in her mouth, holding both her hands behind her back. After 20 minutes of this she decided to come and snatch the chapathi dough from Chula. I separated the fighting siblings and gave Mieja another ball of dough and asked her to roll it and Mieja said "RRRrrrrr", apparently she is a bit confused with hr Rs and Ls. She thought I asked her to roar. So she held the dough in her left hand and "RRRrrrrr"ed it every time I said roll.
This one wants to eat by herself, sleep by herself, walk by herself. May be soon she would want to drive by herself!
If she sees me with a diaper bag, she religiously drops whatever she is doing, opens the shoe closet, grabs her shoes and sit down on the entry way with her feet stretched and shoes to her chest. Once I put her shoes on and open the door, she is the first one to run out and on the way to the car she sabotages all our plants.
30 Aug 2007
This is a very philosophical discussion. Some say that sound is defined as the vibration of air as picked up by a human ear. Since there is no one to receive the vibrations there is no noise. Some say that there is a noise irrespective of a person being present or not.
My take on this is, is this even a discussion? Of course there is a noise. In tamil there is an adage, 'Poonai kannai moodinal ulagam irundu poidadthu'. (Word for word translation: If a cat closes it eyes, the world does not go dark. What it means: Just because you block yourself out of something, it doesn't mean that it does not exist).
In case you are all wondering why all this sudden spark on philosophy, it was something Mieja did. She is totally in to playing peek-a-boo. I kind of started the peek-a-boo thing for her. She was about 6 or so months, was able to sit in her high chair. But she used to hate it if I left her in her high chair by herself. Even if I had to grab a paper towel from the kitchen, she used to scream her head off. So I would walk to the kitchen door and say peek-a-boo, then would hide behind the kitchen wall, do peek-a-boo a few times, then quickly grab my paper towel or whatever that I was looking for and come back to her. According to her I was just playing with her, I was never gone. It is now a favorite game of hers. She would look at me, give me her most enticing smile, walk to the nearest corner, every now and then checking if I am still looking at her, disappear around the corner, then pop her head out and say 'Ummm'. Some times she would pitter patter to the kitchen, stand clutching the doorframe and would sway her whole body from one feet to another simultaneously nodding her head from side to side. It is her version of peek-a-boo.
Three weeks back, I was washing my hands on the bathroom sink, she came running in to the bathroom, ran past me in to the standing shower stall, climbed in to it, clutched the corner and was playing peek-a-boo with me. Well the funny part was that, the shower stall was completely glass! So I laughed and said, "Mieja, I can still see you even if you think you are hiding." She was just having a ball, she didn't care.
But I started thinking about what was going on in her mind, does she even realize that if she can see me through the glass, I can see her too. The thought process then leaped on to 'how much children learn and how fast they learn', then to 'how exactly that connection takes place in their brain', then to the trees falling in Godforsaken places and finally ended up constructing a post around the bits and pieces that sparked in my mind. Okay it was not exactly a spark, more like dim sputtering light bulb.
29 Aug 2007
I have to confess, there was an ulterior motive in the Green Eggs and Ham book review. I started writing this post and decided that the review is better off in a post by itself.
Every time Sam offers the dog(!??!) green eggs and ham, the dog keeps adding the variables and says no. The effect is a cumulative story.
Yes, yes, I am coming to the point. I am working on Chula's potty training. No, no you all read it right. I am the only person working, she is NOT. May be she is working against it…who knows?! I decided to not send her to day care and have her at home and work on the PT before my next quarter begins. I told her, no more diapers, only underpants, no poo-poo/pee-pee in the diapers, only in the potty, if you have to go tell me and I will take you to the potty.
Its been 5 long days and the whole thing is such a flop. I had the sticker system, she just does not care about it. The first day she was very proud of her stickers, 'Appa, lookie look I made three poo-poo/pee-pee in the puuty. I got three stickels' she showed him excitedly. From then on the sticker became two, one and today there were none.
I waited this long hoping that if I start late I can finish soon. But looks like Chula is going to take her own time. She made pee-pee in the chair. I told her, 'Chula no pee-pee in the chair, only in the potty'. She made pee-pee on the floor, I told her, 'Chula no pee-pee in the chair, no pee-pee on the floor, only in the potty'. Then she made pee-pee on the center table(If you are wondering how on earth, on the center table?, we have a certain model in which the top lifts off. Its perfect for little craft activities or TV dinners. She was sitting and during her breakfast eating and coloring on a shet of paper ) and I told her , 'Chula no pee-pee in the chair, no pee-pee on the floor, no pee-pee on the table, only in the potty'. Of course there were numerous pee-pees in her underpants, and I told her 'Chula no pee-pee in the chair, no pee-pee on the floor, no pee-pee on the table, no pee-pee in underpants only in the potty'. Just like the dog in Green eggs and Ham my list kept growing( and this is how Dr.Suess was dragged in to Chula's potty training.)
Today I put Chula in her crib for her afternoon nap. I just strapped on a diaper incase she pees in her sleep. Apparently madam wanted to pee, remembered that I told her no pee-pee in her underpants, so she decided to take off her clothes, take off her diaper, squat in her crib and relieve herself. I walk in to the bedroom and this stark naked child is sitting in a corner of the crib and is giggling like Dolores Umbridge. Selective hearing and selective implementation. She remembers 'not in the underpants' part and decides to chuck the 'only in the potty' part!!
(Ofcourse it is now not in the crib, not on the chair, not on the …..blah …blah …blah….)
I wanted to record this because, sometime in the future, I will look back at this post and laugh my head off. Till then there is loads and loads of mopping and teeth grinding to do.
Updates: We are 9 days in to potty trainning now, no underpants, bare butt kind of works. Thanks Boo for the tip. Looks like with underpants she still thinks that it will hold whatever comes out. Without anything, she comes running to me yelling, 'Come on mommy we need to go, poo-poo is falling out' :). So we are headed in the right direction. Hope the streak continues.
Waiting to potty train till the child is 18 months or older does seem to help.
Funnies: She now sits in the pot and asks every one under the Sun she has ever met if they make their you know what in the potty or in their underpants.
When I am using the bathroom, she stands outside the bathroom and is cheering and clapping for me.
24 Aug 2007
I picked up Green eggs and Ham (by Dr.Suess) from the library. I am a big fan of Dr.Suess. This particular one is about teaching the kids to be open minded and trying something, especially new kind of foods, before saying no. It is illustrated with typical Dr.Suess characters and typical Dr.Suess rhyming words. Sam offers green eggs and ham to dog (well that's what I call him) and dog says no. Sam must have the proverbial motherly genes in him because he does not take no for an answer, especially when it comes to food. He keeps offering dog, the green eggs and ham, trying to convince the dog that the food would be very good on a tree, in a car, in a train with a fox, in a box……The dog just snaps and says:
I don't want them here, I do not want them there, I do not want them anywhere.
I would not eat them on a tree or in a car or in a train.
I would not eat them with a fox. I would not eat them in a box.
I would not eat them in a house. I would not eat them with a mouse.
I don't like green eggs and ham.
So let me be.
Sam still persists and finally…..after lots of rhymes and repetitions, the dog gives up and tells Sam that he will try it if Sam leaves him alone."I will try them if you let me be." Dog eats green eggs and ham and loves it. Sam is ecstatic and the dog is happy.
Well moral of the story is driven straight home using silly pictures and simple rhymes. The repetition of language is very suitable for young readers. For the rest of us – be it the kiddies who cannot read or the adult who is reading the book for a kid – it just puts a silly smile on your face!
There is some interesting information in Wikipedia about this book. Do check it out.
24 Aug 2007
'I am too old amma' – Chula.
I asked Chula, how old she is and 'I am too old amma' was her reply.
Of course she meant 'I am two old' aka, 'I am two years old'.
She is in to telling everyone's age. 'I am too old. Mieja is one old. Amma is three old'. I laughed and said, 'Baby, amma is too old to be three.' So she is now in to investigating how old I am. This is how it goes:
'Amma, are you three old?'
'Amma, are you four old?'
'Amma are you five old?'
And it goes on…..
20 Aug 2007
Tharini's post has affected me in many levels. I just couldn't stop with a short comment.
First of all, her post is a window in to my thoughts. Second of all, though I feel the same way, I could have never put it down as eloquently as Tharini. Thirdly, I am not alone – that gives me a lot of strength to face the day to day battles.
This is something I have gone through with Chula, still do every now and then. Hubby and self even fear her in some ways. We have complained to each other about the pain of dealing with her when she is throwing a tantrum. She has been called feisty, rebellious, adamant, stubborn, opiniated and few other names in those lines by the people in our lives. I too believed that she is a stubborn child. When we are in the heat of the moment, when she is screaming at the top of her voice and behaving unreasonably all I want to do is lash out so bad that she is scared to behave the way she does. But a month back, sitting in a class discussing how to deal with toddler meltdowns, it came to me – I am creating a self fulfilling prophecy. By believing that she is stubborn, all my actions are based on that assumption and it only kept adding to the stubborn streak in Chula.
Another problem I had and still have though I am consciously trying to wean myself off it is individuating from Chula. For a long long time I thought and treated her as an extension of myself. You yearn to have a child, after such long time you are blessed with a child, you have such visions – the perfect diet, the perfect schedule, the perfect activities, the perfect toys, the perfect clothes, perfect, perfect, perfect. Well, striving towards such perfection only lead to tears and heart ache – both mine and Chula's. I always assumed that I knew what was the best for her. When she deviated from my perfect plans, my whole world came crashing down.
Then Mieja came along. I have wondered if hubby and self were too quick to have the second one and by doing that, placed this enormous burden of being the big sister, being the responsible one on Chula's shoulders. But in many ways my little Mieja has been Chula's saviour and a real eye opener to me. With two little kids, I found that I can be involved in their lives only to a certain extent. If I sat with Chula perfecting everything to my liking and micromanaging her life, litle Mieja would be left all alone. In fact that was exactly what happened in the first 6 months of Mieja's life.
In Chula's first 18 months of life, not a single day had passed without me some how getting in to her system, her recommended amount of nutrition. I had personally seen to it. I had followed it even when we were travelling – of course she always threw up most of it after all the effort I had put in. Also she had never missed her nap time. If Chula protested, I used to get agitated that I am going through so much stress for her sake and she does not understand or appreciate it. As a comment to one of my posts Poppin's mom mentioned that what we ARE as parents has more far reaching effects than what we DO as parents. It is so true. Controlling Chula's life and perfecting it was stressful. I was this horrible schedule monster. At the end of all this, Chula might grow up to be dependent, unsure of herself and with a poor self esteem as a result of what I am and what I do will be completely lost. (Poppin's mom that was a very profound statement. As I am writing this post I am seeing the statement in a very different light and all of a sudden all the layers and hidden meanings are unraveling!)
After Mieja's birth I discovered that I don't have the energy to maintain two such schedules! Also came the realization that it is not just enough that if a parent is involved in their children's lives, but a parent must also know when to get involved.
I never had problems individuating from Mieja. I have never held her responsible for the expectations I place on her. May be I am experienced the second time around. Or I know that this is my last child and I either live up this moment or loose it forever. Or I realize that in the big scheme of events its okay if certain small things don't fall in place. Or may be I am and will always see her a baby and am ready to cast aside the little stuff. Or may be just the lack of time. Or a combination of all the above. I don't know.
Now a days I don't sweat the small stuff. I don't loose it if Chula does not finish her food to the last bit. I am totally against wasting food. So, I box it up, telling her that it is her food and that she must finish it later. The remains will turn up on her plate later the same day. Whenever there is a tantrum, I sit down hugging her, wait for her to cry it out and then talk to her. Most of the time, just the sitting down with her and hugging her itself does the trick. May be it makes her feel worthy and respected – I don't know what goes on in her mind. Few of the times when the hugging is not enough and she is still sobbing, I tell her that I do not understand crying and that she needs to use her words to get her point across. She is just 33 months and is not able to do that. So I help her with prompts, 'Are you sad?', 'Do you know why?', 'What can I do to make you feel better? ', 'Do you know why amma said {this} and did {this} ?', 'Are you still sad?'…etc. I do this even in public places. I have sat down on street pavements, in the mall, parks, parking lots, public restrooms, amusement parks and today at the beach. There are times none of this works. In those times, I just walk away with Mieja in my arms (I know that Chula's will definitely try whacking Mieja just to get to me and something holding this little bundle gives a sense of fulfilment ) because at those times I know for a fact that I will do more damage to Chula by being with her.
Am I doing the right thing? Only time can tell.


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Biathlon: Ruzich finishes second in Thursday race
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Jenna Ruzich of Baxter finished fourth in the Youth Women's 6-kilometer sprint race Friday as U.S. Trials for Youth and Junior teams concluded.
Ruzich went 2, 1, shooting in 25:20. She finished 23 seconds behind Mikaela Paluszek of Vermont, Thursday's winner who placed third Friday.
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