Toy Mrdanga

One of last weeks craft projects was a toy Mrdanga. Kalyani was very happy! The actual children’s size Balaram Mrdanga is still too heavy for her around her neck so this works well and was fun for her to colour (you can’t tell from the video but she has nicely coloured it).
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Kalyanisms

Conversations with a 2 year old (over the last couple of weeks)
Kalyani “Prabhupada! Prabhupada Prabhupada!”
Me “Who’s Prabhupada?”
K [...]

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Listening with compassion

“How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
This is a book that I’ve been wanting to read for a while and finally I found it in the second hand book store.  I didn’t realise it is geared more toward older (school age) children, but most [...]

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