Twenty- five Seven

Handling employees

April 6, 2020

Hello and welcome to Week 2 of the AtoZ Challenge.

Handling people at work is not an easy task. Every company employs people from diverse backgrounds and levels of education. In addition, every employee has his own set of attitudes and ideas. It can be quite frustrating to get your ideas across. And even more frustrating, is to make them do things the way you want them to be done.

Daughter No. 1 was complaining about the poor choice of employees and how difficult it was to get them to listen to her.

Listening to his aunt’s complaint, Little Po came up with a wonderful solution.

“Why don’t you put all the people who don’t listen to you into the washing machine?” he asked.

Auntie immediately forgot her frustration and looked at the problem with a fresh set of eyes!

Imagine if all HR problems were so easy to handle!

Ciao

I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.
Where are the donkeys?

April 4, 2020

Children have a different way of processing information. Often when we talk, we forget that more often than not, they often take things literally.

Once, I was driving along Marine Drive with the Little People. It was peak hour traffic and I had to get home before their dinner time. The kids were tired and restless and I was testy.

Suddenly a group of pedestrians jumped over the road divider even though it wasn’t their signal and came dangerously in front of my car.

Naturally, I pressed the brakes and came to a halt. As it is, I was going at a crawl and was irritated by this further delay. I couldn’t, however, hide my irritation and remembering my Little People, refrained from using stronger language and just said, “What donkeys they are!”

Immediately, Little Po and Ms. Papaya looked around and asked where the Donkeys were. I explained to them that the people were like donkeys hence I called them so.

But when they went home, they excitedly told their mothers that they saw some donkeys on the road!

Ciao

I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.
Heaven in a Cloud

April 3, 2020

Two years ago we lost my father-in-law. Though he was very old and the children quite young, they still remember him. Unlike many old people , he enjoyed their company and he played with them every day. When he passed away, they were quite distraught.

We explained to them that he had gone to heaven and has become a star. They felt comforted knowing that he looked down on them every day

One lovely summer evening Ms. Papaya and I were sitting on the swing in the garden. We watched the clouds in the sky, the birds flying home and the sun slowly setting .

Suddenly, Ms. Papaya asked me very solemnly,

“Ajji, when you die, will you go up to heaven on a cloud?”

Any talk of my dying and leaving her makes her anxious so I told her it was a long way before that happened.

She seemed satisfied with the answer

But as I watched the clouds floating above, I thought it was a delightful idea to be taken up to heaven on a soft fluffy cloud.

Don’t you think so?

Ciao

I’m participating in the AtoZ2020 Challenge, a month-long blog hop where participants post 26 posts, one for every Alphabet, every day except Sundays.

Do join me as I share my adventures with my Little People.

Handling employees

Where are the donkeys?

Heaven in a Cloud