The Clean Slate

Toys are extremely important to your baby’s development as playing with them is the first learning curve they come across. Be it building blocks, a doll, or a stuffed animal, they teach a baby so many wonderful skills that will help them in countless ways. Kids are natural explorers, everything is new and they're eager to learn. And as we all know this process of investigation involves a lot of touching and well, tasting. 

WASHING HANDS- A HEALTHY HABIT We all know this by heart now, as a pledge - Wash your hands, wear your mask and practice social distancing. The pri...

Doing the dishes is a never-ending task, we feel you. No matter how much you scrub away, the sink’s never empty, what kind of sorcery is THAT!

To be fair we are lucky to be living in the times of dishwashing liquid, they have made the task less messy. Not to forget the half-dissolved bar that would get stuck to the corners of your soap holder, and sometimes you’d even find the nasty surprise of a green mark under your steel bartans.

If anyone’s happy about months and months of being home, it’s probably your pet. They’re probably over the moon about it. You being home means 24/7 attention, surprise treats, and a lot of cuddling. Quarantine has surely been a gala time for them.

Your floor is your baby’s whole world when they start the exciting journey of crawling. It’s their first taste of independence after all. As fun as it might be for them, it is just as worrisome for you.

All of us at some point in our lives have been chided for not washing our hands before eating. If anything that’s the one thing that we’ve all been grilled about until it became a habit. Anyway, now with this dreaded pandemic on, thank goodness am I right?

Washing your hands is the first step towards infection prevention, we all know that too well by now. Soaps are one of the most efficient ways of removing pathogens from our hands, not just Covid-19 but a range of dangerous things that can be harmful for our health. 

Everything begins with a clear space, as they say, a decluttered space is a decluttered mind. Do away with things that ‘don’t spark joy anymore’ (any Marie Kondo enthusiasts in the crowd?). Be methodical and go room by room, say one room a day.

Being environmentally cautious is the need of the hour, it is an idea we are much too familiar with but often have trouble knowing where to start. With hordes of plastic mounting up in landfills and choking the earth, it’s not simply enough to acknowledge it but to actually do something about it.

Over the course of the past year, it’s safe to say, our relationship with our homes has changed profoundly (albeit not by choice). Your house became your everything - your office, your little one’s school, your gym, your restaurant, your studio - you name it. But of course, your pets were the real winners in all of this.

With the pandemic looming over our heads, we are starting to look back at those tiny things we never thought required proper cleaning. Besides, these ‘unprecedented’ times – yes, we are just as tired of hearing that – have indeed made us dependent on one such tiny thing - our mobiles!

Let’s face it, washing water bottles is often a once-a-week affair in most Indian households. Our excuse? “But it’s just water no.”  Nope, it really really isn’t. It’s the perfect home for our good old bacterial friends, so it is no surprise that they need daily cleaning.