A hammock strung between two trees by the side of a field. A large open basket set on a pile of sand at a construction site. Inside a large sewer pipe lying unused by the roadside. A mother’s warm lap. Yes, these are places where we have seen little ones and their older siblings sleep.It is poetic justice that this, our last, post in the A-Z of Early Childhood series is about Sleep! You are, probably, reading this on a cold January morning. You have just about dragged yoursel

We ask a question to elicit information. Typically. Of course, the question could be rhetorical, asked only to make a point, not receive an answer. The question could also be a loaded one, with an imputed answer, leaving the addressee without much choice. Anchors of our news channels love doing that! Without a doubt, the most honest questioning comes from children. No hidden agenda there, simple curiosity. "Sawaliram” is a name familiar to many who went to school between 1975

22433 What do Ferdinand Magellan, Roald Amundsen and Edmund Hillary have in common? They ventured into untested waters and uncharted territories and scaled new heights. They were the great explorers of new worlds. In the course of our blog posts on A-V, our readers would have explored so many prisms through which to look at the Mobile Creches’ world: the first six years of a child’s life. And what of the youngest explorer, the newborn, who comes into our world, leaving the co