What started off as a phone call a year ago. talking about the one thing we felt was the most defining aspect of our lives – Parenting, has led to this incredible journey called Madhuram Musings. Standing at 33 episodes. we still feel like a new born chil

The way religion is practiced and introduced to children varies from family to family. There is no right or wrong way to do it. But like a lot of other controversial aspects, the influences of religion is not just restricted to what is introduced at home.

A lot of us living in the US, face a lot of uncertainty due to the visa process. This uncertainty spills over how we plan our future and impacts our parenting decisions to a some extent. And the impact a visa denial or expiry is sometime quite immense, es

We often notice children estimate a person’s worth based on the car their parents’ drive in or the cell phone they carry. As the world is getting more and more materialistic, with more avenues to  flaunt that material wealth, it creates a lot of ineq

Please join us for a fun conversation on the holiday season and our attempts at making resolutions. While we have not been hugely successful at keeping them, we are sharing a few tips on how to get close to keeping them.. We will follow up this episode wi

While we at Madhuram, have not encountered bullying when we were school aged children in India, it is an issue which seems to be plaguing our children and many of their friends here in the US. The number of children effected by bullying in the United Stat

When I told some of my friends that I watched the court scenes of Jai Bhim with my son, they doubted my judgement. So we used this episode to talk about the right time to introduce sensitive subjects to children, how did we do it, how did they react, what

Very often we hear about a child who is either disinterested in food or eats too slow. In our Madhuram team, we have 1 kid in each family who is this way. In today’s episode, we share our frustrations and challenges with you. We have not shared any extens

The way we learn and work has been changing at a rapid pace. Careers are not viewed the way it was viewed 10 years ago. We moved from a single job through a person's life, to many jobs, to people having multiple career paths in their lives. A lot of well

This episode is a collage of 4 interviews of high school/college students, who explain their journey towards college prep. Thanks to Jhanavi, Rohan, Ramya and Shoham for their time and great insight into how they had/have been preparing to get into the co