Arnav Prasanna

It was May 3rd and my birthday.  I woke up and went to the hall and found that my birthday was themed after my favorite video game: Minecraft.  Minecraft is basically a game where you mine and explore and defend bases from enemies at night as well as craft better gear to help you on your journey. The main goal in the game is to defeat the ender dragon. So there were minecraft balloons on the floor. I played with them. I got minecraft clothes. I wore them. My sister also got one. The shirts basically have lots of minecraft characters and my shirt had “Miner” while my sisters had the full “Minecraft” on her shirt. Then we went to Phoenix mall. There we ate at a place called “Rajdhani”. We had Chapathi, Appalam, Poori, Aaloo Curry and Paneer Subji. After that my sister and I went on a train based on Disney characters. It went around the entire 3rd floor. It was very fun.  After that we went to a playground called Funky Monkey. My sister and I really enjoyed it. We liked the ...

Hello everyone so recently I went to the doctor, and I saw a lot of people there who were very scared of injection, even adults. I decided to give some tips on how children can be made relaxed when they have to take injection.  1. Favourite Toy Parents should  bring a favorite toy of the kids maybe something like a soft teddy bear or car.   2. Comfortable   Tell them before only that injection is coming. It will pain a little but it will go very fast. Make them  comfortable not scared and it will make them feel like it’s just like that home. This is very simple to do (it is not). 3.   Talk  I love talking with my parents a lot. In fact I dictated this blog on mom’s phone on MS Word Hands free dictation when I was waiting for my turn at clinic. So you can also sit with your kid and talk their favourite topics so they can get distracted about what’s going on and and they will have lot of fun.   I hope all these points help you. Injection pains but w...

I went to Puducherry on Thursday, and yes it really pulls!  Puducherry is located on the south east of Chennai. Puducherry is 142 km from Chennai, It takes about 3 hrs to get there by car. Puducherry is a place with lots of history, it was taken by the French in the 19th century and even today, there are lots of French buildings and roads. So, my mother, grandparents, my sister and my aunt and I went. We finished packing a day before leaving. We decided to stay there for 3 days. My sister made us all laugh by calling it ‘Monticherry’.  We left on 21 Apr at 6 in the morning by car! After sometime, we played a couple of games and my sister vomited(pst:dont tell that to anyone or her). Eventually we stopped at an A2B in Mahabalipuram(1h from Chennai in car) but this wasn’t just any A2B.  This was the A2B where my mother had taken a photo of my sister and I when we were both very small. We both are seated on a plane. She has that photo as her phone’s background. We were excit...

  By Aparna Karthikeyan & Somesh Kumar      First of all, Happy International Dance Day!  I know, yes many people would dance and, yes I did try but let's just say it was not so good, so since I couldn’t dance, I thought to write a book review on dance and hey! I get to celebrate without dancing! My first reaction to the cover page was bharatnatyam because there was a boy doing bharatnatyam. I got the book from storyweaver.org.in. Storyweaver is a website where you can read 1000+ stories in 100+ languages. These stories are nice and small. Usually storyweaver stories don't go longer than 50 pages.  In this book, Kali sees people do bharatanatyam and tries it. He does very well. Slowly, the small fishing village of Kovalam starts to notice. His mother asks him to join a dance school. However, his maama and friends say bad stuff and bully him for wanting to become a dancer.Will he become a world famous dancer or will he herd the sheep and do fishing in hi...