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As a Communication professor turned stay-at-home-mom, I blog about raising my Indian-Canadian-American kids and my transition from a professional identity to an almost exclusively mom identity. I also write about relationships, recipes, travel, and life, in general.
2022-07-09 16:58
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2022-07-04 22:45
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2022-07-01 17:02
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2022-06-29 03:30
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2022-06-23 15:02
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2022-06-22 14:50
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2022-06-16 06:50
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2022-06-14 14:41
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2022-06-10 17:44
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2022-06-05 16:59
Berkata berkenaan game slot online mungkin games ini sudah tidak asing lagi apalagi di telinga para bettor di Indonesia. Tidak hanya populer di Indonesia, slot juga ternama di beragam negara… Read More
2021-02-15 22:24
"She doesn't even want to play with me anymore"... she cried and she sobbed and she sniffled and she let all her sadness and upset flow on to my chest as she snuggled close to me.
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2021-02-04 14:58
Baby E went back to school, Pre-K this time, after 11 months!! The experience has been bittersweet.
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2021-01-26 22:29
Read more about how I "reinvented" my crafting skills in 2020 to teach myself sewing to meet the growing demand for masks.
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2021-01-07 03:58
While I am not oblivious to the kind of year it has been to millions of people around the world, from a personal standpoint, it has been a year of new beginnings and lessons learned.
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2020-12-10 03:43
In Three Wise Monkeys, authors Divya Kadam and Anita Jain take classic ideals and relate them to everyday plausible scenarios.
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2020-10-11 15:15
Make your own delicious granola with super healthy ingredients - Coconut Oil, Almond Flour, Maple Syrup, Chia Seeds, Dark Cocoa Powder, and just a few more items.
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2020-09-22 13:30
In the many ups and downs these last few weeks of homeschooling, schooling at home, and remote learning, some things have worked and some others, haven't.
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2020-09-07 19:08
It gives me a lot of joy to review the Crayola Multicultural Crayons product. Just like transparent Band-Aids were a no-brainer product that took a REALLY long time to be introduced to our k… Read More
2020-09-07 03:59
Introducing my YouTube Channel - Diversity & Us where I read kids' books on a variety of multicultural themes aloud.
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2020-08-23 16:41
A simple and quick DIY project to turn a thrift store picture frame into a cork board and a statement piece for your wall.
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2020-08-18 19:03
A DIY beginner's confidence booster - simple and easy DIY for your home - A beautiful display ladder for your throws and blankets
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2020-08-17 14:15
Our academic year 2020-2021 is off to a good start. Every day is an adventure...
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2020-08-11 04:00
I am really excited about this corks activity for kids especially for these times when we are stuck at home trying to find new ways to keep our kids busy. I am very fortunate to have an amaz… Read More
2020-08-01 03:26
In this post, I discuss our educational choices for the 2020-2021 academic year and some really awesome learning resources or toys that I will be using with my kids.
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2020-07-03 22:40
The Crafty Mama section will include my personal DIY projects, however small or big; as well as the kid-friendly crafts, arts, cooking and baking joys and disasters.… Read More The Cr… Read More
2020-06-11 03:56
Lip balm sticks, handmade clay erasers, crayon candles...we did it all! I drove myself and the kids crazy in so doing but we survived. Read Part 1 - Week 1 of our summer vacation.… Re… Read More
2020-05-20 22:17
Yelling. Screaming. Nagging. Pleading. Threatening. I just naturally made my way into all of the above ever since the time I became a mom to two kids…yelling was temporarily the new n… Read More
2020-04-28 04:19
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2020-04-02 03:13
It has only been 2 weeks and 3 days and I am just about ready to throw in the chalk and call it quits. How are you doing?… Read More Covid-19 Files: When will this end!?
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2020-03-20 01:06
Read on to find out how we did on our Day 4 of homeschooling.… Read More COVID-19 Files: Homeschooling Day 4
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2020-03-18 21:26
Read about how we managed Day 2 of our forced homeschooling since public schools closed down March 16. … Read More COVID 19: Homeschooling Day 2
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2020-03-12 16:32
It has been so long since my last blog post that honestly, I can’t even remember when and what I wrote. Of course, I could go back and check the date but between publishing that last p… Read More
2020-01-14 23:42
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2020-01-14 23:42
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2018-06-29 03:53
A super busy 2018 has meant very few blog posts but plenty of life happening on the primary front. This post is a quick gist of three big new chapters of our lives.
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2018-05-25 23:48
Dear Friends, By now you must be familiar with General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR. At ThePhDMama, your trust is worth everything to me so you can rest assured that your data will NEV… Read More
2018-05-25 23:14
Who we are This website’s address is: http://thephdmama.com. It is the personal blog space of Suchitra, the Founder & Content Creator What personal data we collect and why we colle… Read More
2018-01-26 01:54
I recently reviewed two kinds of lunch boxes and a thermos from Cute Lunch Boxes, a website that exclusively sells lunch boxes, thermoses, and water bottles and ships them worldwide for… Read More
2018-01-02 07:48
I witnessed the slow disintegration of those stupid balls in the hot oil through my blurred-with-tears contact lenses. I paused for a couple of minutes as I mindlessly stared at the small ka… Read More
2017-12-24 05:32
Whether it's Afreen Afreen or Dil le gayi kudi Gujarat di, whether it is Ab Ke Sawan or Kabhi to nazar milao, as someone who was a card-carying member of India's first MTV generation, I ofte… Read More
2017-12-22 06:19
Dear Picklebunny, Oops..is that an embarrassing name? Honestly, I call you whatever comes to mind and you just seem the perfect little “whatever-I-call-you”. Picklebunny, Sweatpe… Read More
2017-12-20 07:46
Here is a Jewish Potato Latke recipe that is sure to make you keep asking for more. Whether you are making these for Hanukkah or just because, I hope you like the recipe and enjoy the latkes… Read More
2017-12-16 06:12
I want to do something powerful. I want to make a difference. Everywhere I look, I find limitations and not all of my own making.
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2017-11-13 07:43
My kids really enjoy art especially things having to do with splashes of colors. More specifically, they like to let their imaginations flow whether with color markers, crayons, paints, or w… Read More
2017-10-14 06:44
Last month, I completed 2 years as a reluctant stay-at-home-mom. Woe is me, I know!! I summarized my first year as a SAHM in this blog post from 2016. At the conclusion of my second year, I… Read More
2017-10-07 06:46
Monday, October 9, is Canadian Thanksgiving or as Canadians call it, Thanksgiving. Every year since 2012, I have cooked traditional Thanksgiving meals for my family, especially my husband, a… Read More
2017-10-03 17:59
Recently, we have been meeting and chatting with life insurance companies so we can both secure a future for our kids and the surviving spouse should something unfortunate happen to either o… Read More
2017-10-01 15:06
By definition, if it’s your passion, it is exclusive to you, the person with that passion. Sure other people may help fuel it or try drowning it out, still, the thrill, the energy, the… Read More
2017-09-20 06:32
The book begins with highlighting, first, the fact that we're all different. How can our differences unite us? A perfect children's book to help understand differences don't have to divide… Read More
2017-09-17 23:31
I have been away for so long now that I feel guilty I have missed noting and archiving important milestones in my kids’ lives. Regular readers of this blog know that my priorities shif… Read More
2017-09-08 00:06
In Part II, I list three more Reasons Why I am an Indian...but not Really, or Why I am a Part-Time Indian: Clothing, Religion, and Food… Read More Part-Time Indian: Reasons Why I am a… Read More
2017-09-06 06:06
Here's why even though my passport identifies me as an Indian, I am actually, maybe, not one...then again, since when has a mere official document defined anybody completely, right?…… Read More
2017-09-02 15:15
A simple and easy recipe using carrots, paneer, and hummus to make a delicious and nutritious meal. Kids will love this. Mine do. … Read More Easy Lunch Idea for Kids: Chapati Tortill… Read More
2017-08-29 14:24
If you are interested in creative advertising in the form of sponsored posts, please reach out at: Here are two sponsored posts I published recently. Each one has a different f… Read More
2017-08-29 06:23
In mid-2015, we moved to San Jose from Chicago. We were parents to 1 child and I was pregnant with our second, in my first trimester. No thanks to the road trip and all the health drama that… Read More
2017-08-24 16:00
This is a Sponsored Post. Motherhood, really parenthood, and sleep deprivation seem like two sides of the same coin. While a few parents may brag about how their newborn slept through the ni… Read More
2017-08-23 05:56
The other day when I dropped my son off to daycare, the husband of the lady who runs the daycare asked me, “So, did you get a job yet?” I may have mentioned to him a couple weeks… Read More
2017-08-18 05:59
Ever experienced one of those days when you could barely stand up, your feet ready to melt under the weight of a body getting crushed by its own weight? Shoulders aching with pain like you h… Read More
2017-08-15 05:50
Unlike her brother, Teju does not get read to every night. We just read to her throughout the day whenever we can and a few times a night if everything works on schedule and we aren’t… Read More
2017-08-07 19:00
“I’ll miss you there, Mommy,” he said, with a sad look in his beautiful eyes and with inverted lips which only accentuated his little puffy cheeks. It broke my heart. Why w… Read More
2017-08-05 15:00
It hit me like a brainwave – Why not do a movie night with my little guy? It is a Friday night, after all. Of course, as all parents of toddlers know, it really does not matter what da… Read More
2017-08-04 17:00
No Adobe Photoshop subscription? No problem. No advanced designing skills? No problem. I love how things have advanced to a point where anyone can create beautiful images and other desi… Read More
2017-08-01 13:46
Meet the team that created theparentvoice.com… Read More HerStory: The Women of theParentVoice.Com
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2017-07-31 04:20
I really wish wine did it for me. Isn’t wine supposed to help deal with motherhood, if all those memes are to be believed? Nothing really works for me. I don’t smoke. I don&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-07-24 00:18
TJ had fever last week. Pretty much all day. It was a fever that started out of nowhere on Thursday evening, lasted all day Friday, give or take a few hours working off of the strength of th… Read More
2017-07-21 17:25
Waiting at a gas station to fill up gas is probably one of their least favorite activities for most people. Filld is a gas delivery service handled entirely through an app that does the… Read More
2017-07-17 22:29
As a former professor of organizational communication, a feminist, and an unapologetic qualitative scholar, my absolute favorite kind of research involved talking to people about their lives… Read More
2017-07-14 14:52
There was a time, not very long ago, when everyday was full of new excitement and anticipation over what new thing my little girl would accomplish that day or even that week or month. Now, a… Read More
2017-07-06 06:15
We had a fun few days, what with Aaron being home for four days!. Having taken the Monday before the 4th off, we got an extended long weekend. While we didn’t do much on Saturday as a… Read More
2017-07-04 04:35
I know how it looks. I know you are judging me right now. I know you are on some kind of a moral high horse, perhaps even justified, praising yourself for having your language firmly under c… Read More
2017-07-01 18:10
It's the first of the month which means it's time for HerStory, a new series of posts presented by ThePhdMama blog to highlight the stories of moms who are like you and me, but just a l… Read More
2017-06-30 23:29
In honor of Canada’s 150th Anniversary, I thought it would be fun to write about the things I learned about Canada from my very Canadian husband. If you are Canadian, “A Very Hap… Read More
2017-06-28 17:43
In 2015, June was the month in which Baby J experienced his first big fever. He was 14 months young. In 2016, June was the month I was still very much in the throes of a postpartum funk, slo… Read More
2017-06-27 22:39
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2017-06-21 16:00
This is a Sponsored Post. For most of us, a discussion on the value of education is redundant because it is a presumed fact of life. Likewise, depending on the part of the world in which you… Read More
2017-06-19 17:11
TJ started summer school today. I could do a happy jig in celebration of this great occasion – TJ going back to school. In fact, I really should. TJ away at school for three hours mean… Read More
2017-06-15 21:54
Submitted to an essay competition in September 2016 – This was my first time writing such a personal essay and my first time submitting one to a competition. Of course, I didn’t… Read More
2017-06-10 00:19
This is my 200th post! In an interesting twist of system errors and a need to engage a backup restore, I lost the original post I had written and had to rewrite the second half all over agai… Read More
2017-06-07 22:08
If this is your first time visiting one of my recipes, you need to know that I almost NEVER measure. If you can’t work without measurements, I would suggest you look for… Read More
2017-06-06 23:10
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2017-06-03 18:00
May 15, 2017 There was no thinking involved. It had to be done. It was so simple in execution that it seemed like that was indeed the most appropriate response to the contextual tr… Read More
2017-06-03 06:41
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2017-06-01 16:00
Introducing HerStory: A new series of posts presented by ThePhdMama blog to highlight the stories of moms who are like you and me, but just a little different. The moms showc… Read More
2017-05-26 23:32
The years are short. Enjoy them while they are still little. They are only little once. It gets easier. Sentiments expressed in the sentences above are simmered i… Read More
2017-05-23 18:00
My first introduction to Kidloland, an educational and entertainment app for kids under 5 years of age, was back in 2015 when I was pregnant and still learning the ropes of being a stay… Read More
2017-05-23 04:24
(Originally written on February 22, 2017. Some of the specifics have changed in the 3 months that have passed since then but I have kept the same content so I know what it was back then even… Read More
2017-05-18 17:00
I tiptoed down the stairs. Literally. Teju is asleep in her room and I just kissed TJ a Good Nap quietly closing his door behind me. Yet, I fear the slightest sound might wake one or both of… Read More
2017-05-16 18:05
The Best Ever Fresh Apricots Banana Muffins with Superfoods – What do you do when life gives you a banana that is going bad and an apricots tree in the backyard that is in full… Read More
2017-05-14 14:00
Mother’s Day was never a big deal. It was like any other day. The date came and it went. Without so much as a whisper of celebration. Why? Simply because we didn’t know that such… Read More
2017-05-13 05:35
Is breakfast in bed a typical beginning to your Mother's Day morning? What about gifts, flowers, candy...the whole shebang? Hmm...
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2017-05-10 17:30
When I saw the cover of Mindy Kaling’s debut book, ‘Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?’, I felt like she had written that book with me in mind. Except, of course, she hadn… Read More
2017-05-09 05:51
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2017-05-07 17:44
Would adding "mom" to your resume or bio hurt your chances on the job market? Are you willing to "risk" it?
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2017-05-01 23:50
Am I ready for my child's transition into boyhood when he was just a little toddler not that long ago?
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2017-04-30 05:16
I recently had the opportunity to review a Baby Sleepsuit by Breden Kids. I have previously reviewed their Balaclava hatscarf and noted just how much I liked that for my son. The folks… Read More
2017-04-23 03:52
My little girl celebrated her first birthday recently. Written at different times of the year, I present below some examples of her busy PRE-one-year-old life. Month 1 (March – Ap… Read More
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