Kids’ Corner

My family and I have been leading a low-waste sustainable lifestyle for many years now. We’ve even managed to do away with the dustbins at our home. We’ve achieved this by reducing the waste we generate and by taking care of the waste that we do generate, ourselves, right at home. We’ve reduced our consumption significantly,

At 20, my mother chopped off her gorgeous curls. In anger! ‘I spent most of my teens wishing I had straight silky hair, just like my best friend’s,’ she’d tell me, a straight-haired child, every time I wondered why I couldn’t have inherited her curls. Through my teens and early 20s, I watched straight-haired women

When my daughter turned 6, a month ago, she wanted us to throw her a ‘Rebel Party’. In all my excitement and enthusiasm, I decided to pick this up as a cue for one of those fantastical zero-waste parties we’ve seen sustainability influencers post about. I even tried suggesting a zero-gift model to her, but

Last year, our screens and feeds were flooded with horrific images from the Atacama Desert, in Chile, of its newest dunes. No, not dunes made of sand but of piles and piles of discarded, unsold clothing from across the world! If most of these are made of synthetic fabrics, we are in deep, deep trouble,

Do you love DIYs? I certainly do, as do most of the kids I work with. They are so satisfying… creating something new from scrap, and odds and ends you find around your house. Now, what if I were to tell you, mending clothes can give you the same endorphin high? And, wait for it,

It’s that time of year! The festivities that began with Milad un Nabi and Dussehra are culminating in the greens and reds of Christmas tinsel. The air is nippy, the evenings longer and the days brighter. And all we really want is to spend time with our friends and family, laughing and stuffing ourselves silly!

INTRODUCING YOUR CHILD TO SUSTAINABILITY   There was a time we went about getting new clothes without visiting websites or showrooms, comparing costs, design and fit. Instead, there was the joy of buying running cloth, sometimes with a style in mind, sometimes because it caught our fancy, which would then lie in our cupboard till

Early childhood is when children develop most of their attitudes—towards learning and towards their sense of self. In pedagogical terms, we call this socio-emotional development. Often erroneously understood and limited to a child’s expression and management of their emotions, the socio-emotional domain is, in fact, quite a dynamic domain. It includes, but is not limited

“Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be; The future’s not ours to see…,’ sang Doris Day, a quarter of a century ago. Flash forward 2021, when the world is 1.16 degree Celsius warmer than it was in 1955, when the song released, and we are beginning to see signs of what the future holds.