Children & Parenting

Sometimes kids end up cracking the biggest of jokes. In order to pacify my three and a half year old daughter who had been scolded by my wife early in the morning, I told her: “Rhea, don’t worry…sometimes your mother is too much.” Pat came her reply: “Not too much. Mother is Magar-much.” I didn’t … Read more

They say the best way to attract women is to carry a baby around, and act like a caring father. Or better still, the guy who adopted a baby because he just couldn’t bear the sight of the orphan growing up alone in this big, bad world. I did try this trick….and it did work … Read more

Our daughter Rhea has been steadily growing. And why not? She eats as many rotis as her 34 year old father. Though she keeps referring to her strength by saying “I am a strong girl” and her muscles by saying “See my muscles”….we feel she is also developing mentally – a trait rarely seen amongst … Read more

In August last year I had proudly proclaimed on this blog that my three year old daughter was going out with another very young man – a three year old called Yashas (read about it here). A week back I came to know that they are no longer an item, and my daughter has moved … Read more

It has been 22 days since my last blog post on February 1. I have been kept busy by my colleagues at ibibo.com …so nothing to complain there. On the personal front, Rhea has started getting super-active and it hurts to leave her playing by herself and sit in front of the laptop to write … Read more

This post is dedicated to all fathers, whose contribution to child birth has gone unnoticed and unrewarded. If you have been reading Ouchmytoe for a while now, you probably remember than on 29th March 2007 our daughter Rhea was born in a hospital in Kannur, Kerala. If you remember reading this post on Rhea`s birth … Read more