Indian Daddy's Blog

  Your child will learn to love reading when they see you reading books, magazines, or graphic novels. A child learns from what he or she observes. Your child will likely catch your enthusiasm for reading if you are enthusiastic about it.

  Announcement: This post is written by my better half Puspanjalee who is an award-winning blogger and author. I have finally convinced her to write regularly for this blog on her ideas on parenting and raising a reader.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Living in India naturally makes you trilingual. You learn your mother tongue, Hindi as a lingua franca, and English as the second language. But the learning curve for the mother tongue when you go to an English Medium school can be really steep. It depends on you how you make your child read and write your mother tongue. So, we thought of incentives for our son to learn how to read and write Assamese fluently. We told him that he gets to read a whole lot of books when he learns to read Assamese. And that trick worked like magic! Being a reader, the possibility of reading books in his own language was a huge boost. Being bookworms, it re...

                                       Published in the Assam Tribune dated (16.12.2021) The experience of publishing in mass media is one of a lifetime. If it is for the first time and even at a tender age, it gives immense pleasure. As a parent, we are putting our effort into a good environment for our budding children.  We are not helicoptering parents but we always monitor each and every activity of our child. We would not impose matters on him but guide him to do what is right or wrong.  But as an intelligent child, he evolved as much faster than us. Accordingly, we are also trying to develop ourselves in relation to certain environments.   Reading different aspects of books is our normal routine. We prefer to read general books and kindle on our Ipads. We read newspapers and keep sharing and discussing major current affairs.  As such, our son also developed ...