A healthy child makes a happy home.

A healthy child makes a happy home.

Today I happened to clean my house and came across my personal Journal that I was maintaining from past 25 years. 

March 10th 1990. . .

Today there was a writing competition at my school Organized by Dabur India. The topic was "A healthy child makes a happy home" When I read the sentence, my mind flashed about my uncle Mr. Natarajan who was a multi-millionaire in 1970’s. He is known for his intelligence, Hardworking, good and kind-hearted nature. He had 2 sons - Pari Natarajan and Praveen Natarajan. As soon as he finished his son’s marriage, he divided his complete property into three and offered it to his 2 sons and took one share for him. He told his sons to lead thier own life and to start a business based on thier own interest.

With the money in hand, both Pari and Praveen started a new business. The eldest son Pari Natarajan started Alloy steels. Soon he was blessed with 2 female kids. His business grew and he succeeded like a hell. Mr.Pari recently gave an interview. What was his success factor? He said its because of his 2 beautiful daughters. "They are my inspiration. I go weird on seeing their positive energy and beautiful smile. Every morning, I play with them, go to swimming and the energy I get from kids is unexplained and it motivates the day."

Unfortunately, Praveen Natarajan too started Garments business. He succeeded rapidly than Pari uncle. He started to export the clothes and he started his business worldwide. Everything went smooth until. . .

One day he found his daughter fainted while playing. They took to the hospital and realized that she was having some problem with the heart. They took her to Bangalore. No use of treatments. They found the best hospitals in Singapore and stayed over there for her treatments. He joined his elder daughter in Ooty Convent School hostel, to concentrate on his Younger’s daughter treatments. Months passed. He lost his focus on his business. He was always stressed. He avoided family functions, since he was spending time for his daughter treatments. The business went on loss. I wonder whether god exists in the world. Because he took away the kids life. That point of time, I realized, how Healthy kids play a vital role in a family.

September  29th 1999:

I never liked my wife at the time of marriage. We had lots of conflicts in each and every decision. In-fact I thought of divorcing her. When our hardness was about to reach the peak, she was conceived. We thought its our fate to stay together. But after my son’s birthday, our love towards him made us closer and the intimacy between use us grew. I must say that if today me and wife are staying together it is because of my son's birth. No, its not with the compulsion. But we understood that we have similar interest for our son. Never knew, a happy kid would change a person's life.

August 19th 2013

Today I came from office with a severe head ache and stress due to office work and pressure. My 5 year old kid came running towards me with lots of love and affection. In fraction of second, all my stress wiped off.  That love and affection and his positive energy made me to forget all my stress and head ache.

December 14th 2014
My M.D is very bold and strong. He got a call in-between an important meeting. He excused us and went outside the meeting room to attend the call. All we could hear was a screech sound of our MD.

We are rushed to see what happened to him. He cried and shouted. It took 15 minutes to make him normal. His hands was trembling. We called back the same number and came to understand that his Son's school van met with an accident and his son was hospitalized. Though he was literally very strong, this incident shook him to the core. He sat at the corner of the hospital without knowing what is happening in and around him.

A bright smile lightened his face, only when the doctor said his son is safe and out of danger zone. Kids are very important to one person life and Kids play a vital role in Family happiness.

January 3rd 2015:
My grandma was diagnosed with cancer and doctor said its impossible to cure her. Since it was the duty to take care of my mother, my dad brought her to my home and offered all the medical treatment possible. My son started mingling with her and she started listening to my son naughty stories, his day experience and so on.

Soon, my grandma started walking and felt so active. I won’t say that she was saved from cancer. But yes, she is surviving more than the expected day. It’s all because of the magic of the kids.

When I finished reading my Dairy I learned the value of healthy children.

In-fact, taking care of kids is another sensitive thing. They don’t know what is good and what is bad. They tend to get wet in rain and play in water. They don’t know the impact of getting cold and fever due to it. Everyday freaking traffic, pollution and climatic changes affect the kids a lot. Kids also don't have immunity power as that of adults and hence bacteria's and virus love to go and rule a kids body. I was surprised to see a kid with 100% attendance in school. Its rarely 5 to 10 kids in a school of 10,000.

They eat lots of chocolates and ice-creams and tend to spoil their teeth. They take out their bi-cycle and race with their fellow kids. They are kids and all they know is to face the world without any fear.

So, was it not our duty to protect the wealth of our family the kid? Make sure you include Dabur Chyawanprash atleast twice a day in their diet plan. It has herbs like Amla the best antioxidants and gives you 3X of immunity. It increases Natural Killer Cells that is very much needed for immune system

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5 Tips to make your husband help in Laundry

This post has won the "Ariel's #IsLaundryOnlyAWomansJob activity" Contest

Recently I read an article "Is Laundry only a woman's job?" on BlogAdda and was curious to know about the survey result. So, I modified few questions and opened up the survey to my friends. To my surprise I got completely contradictory results.  Please find below my survey results.

Then I found my mistake. I should have opened up the survey anonymously. People feel safe in an anonymous environment and they open up truthful answers. I opened the survey again requesting them to answer anonymously and to my shock I got most accurate data matching against the Ariel's survey conducted by AC Nielsen. Below are the statics.

From the above survey one thing I understood. Even Men feel proud to say they help their mom and wife in Laundry. In other words, they feel little embarrassed to say they don’t help the women at home.  But do they really help women at home?
My dad helps my mom in everything and washes his clothes himself. But not every women is lucky enough to get a good person like my dad.
There are family where they believe Laundry is a woman's job irrespective of "Working woman", "Not well", "Tired" labels. How to change this inequality?.

Below are the few ideas that struck my mind. Thank you dad, for helping me out in this ideas. Please note, the goal is to provide useful tips for women so as to reduce the laundry burden. Each Experiment is designed for the novice, with comprehensive details of required materials, results and so on...
Experiment 1
Eat-Out Experiment
Purpose
To make your husband help in Laundry.
Additional information
Its little expensive at the beginning, but its worth the result.
Required Items:

1. Husband
2. You 
3. Kids (If Any)
4. Restaurant 
5. Little bit of acting skills 

Step-By-Step Procedure.

1. As soon as he comes from office, tell him dinner is not ready because you did not find enough time.
2. Husband will plan to take you out.
3. Order as much as food you can and eat everything.
4. Make sure bill cross 1000.
5. Repeat for 5 days.
6. Show the Expense report to your husband
7. Husband will shout at you for crossing the "Monthly Budget"
8. Tell him that, you were busy washing his clothes and did not have time to cook the dinner. 

Figures & Illustrations

Note:
You should act in such a way that you are feeling helpless for increasing the monthly bill
Observation:
You husband will be scared to face the Monthly expense and hence he will opt to help you in laundry.

Result:
Your husband will be Washing the clothes and you can prepare the dinner.
Sometimes, you can swap the work as well.

Experiment 2
Rangoli - Dirty Holi Experiment
Purpose:
To make your husband help in Laundry.
Duration:
1 day
Additional information:
If you are angry with your husband, take out your husband’s favorite dress or lucky dress.
Required Items:

1. Husband Shirt 
2. You 
3. Holi water Gun. (Alternative – Water bottles – Put hole in cap)
4. Colors – Pink and Deep Pink (No Alternative, since Guys hate pink and will work out more)
5. PS. Keep children’s away. They may inform your husband. 

Step-By-Step Procedure.

1. Spray the pink color holi powder and leave it for an hour. 
2. As soon as your husband comes, scold him for spoiling his shirt. 
3. Your husband will be wondering, how did the shirt spoiled. 
4. In the meantime, offer him washing powder and lock inside the washroom with the shirt.

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Observation:
Your husband will wash the shirt, since it is his favorite shirt.
Result:
This is just a base. Keep motivating him and transfer the Laundry job completely

Experiment 3

Hide and Seek Experiment:

Purpose:

To make your husband help in Laundry. 

Duration:

1 day

Additional information:

Rowdy Rathore movie to watch the tricks of a Thief

Required Items:

1. Stealing Skills
2. Hiding Skills. 
3. You
4. Your Husband

Step-By-Step Procedure.

1. Steal all the entertainment items from the home and hide it in a place, where your husband cant find. Example - TV Remote, Bike and Car keys, Laptop, His mobile phone... etc
2. Your Husband will come home to watch TV. He will not find the remote.
3. He will search bike/Car keys to go out. He will not find.
4. He will search laptop to work, again he cant find.
5. He will search for his mobile, to chat or play. He will not find. 
6. He may try to sleep. Before he goes to sleep, Offer him Coffee and Red-bull so that he will be so energetic. 
7. Make sure you lock the door. Otherwise, he may go out for a walk. Basically house arrest him. 

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Note:

Don’t hide the washing Machine by curiosity. 

Observation:

Your husband will be damn bored and will beg you to offer some work. Give him Laundry job 

Result:

Your husband will help you in Laundry. 

Experiment 4

One-One Help Experiment:

Purpose:

To make your husband help in Laundry. 

Additional Information:

Dont invite Male friends. It will result in adverse effect. 

Required Items:

1. Your husband's Girl Friend.
2. You
3. Your Husband
4. Dinner Party

Step-By-Step Procedure.

1. Invite your Husband office Colleague or his girl friend for a dinner party. 
2. Please note: The office colleague has to be your best buddy as well. 
3. Praise your husband that he helps in laundry in front of her.
4. Your friend in turn,should praise your husband.

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Note:

In turn, you should go to her home and do the same experiment, so that her husband helps in laundry. After all its Mutual understanding. 

Observation:

To impress his girl friend, your husband will help out in Laundry

Result:

Your husband will help you in Laundry. 

Experiment 5:

This or That Experiment:

Purpose:

To make your husband help in Laundry. 

Additional Information:

It is very risky. 

Required Items:

1. Your husband
2. You
3. Your son
4. Duplicate mark sheet. 

Step-By-Step Procedure.

1. Prepare a Duplicate mark sheet of your son/daughter with Zero marks in all subjects.
2. Your husband will shout at you for not teaching the child.
3. Tell him that you don't find time to teach your child, since you are busy with laundry job.
4. Now, give him an option, Teach kid or Lanundry job.
5. If he choose Laundry job, then fine the experiment ended smoothly.
6. If he choose to teach kid, then offer him the toughest subject like Maths or General knowledge. He must be weak in at-least one subject. 
7. Find that and offer him the subject. Your hubby will feel, laundry job is easy and will jump to laundry job. 

Figures & Illustrations:

Note:

Make sure he does not take the Progress report and go to school to meet Head master. 

You can see your hubby washing all the time, just to escape from kids question and teaching. 

Result:

Your husband will help you in Laundry. 

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