Thomas Barwick via Getty Images My tween daughter loves to say, “I’m practically an adult.” At first I was flabbergasted. After a few weeks of hearing her talk about getting older, I started complimenting my daughter’s good behavior by saying, “That’s so grown-up,” and I reacted to her bad behavior by saying, “You’re acting like a little kid.” I soon …
“Why should my 10-year-old daughter, studying in class 5, write a board exam now?” asked my housemaid this week. This triggered a volley of questions in me as to why the government took the decision of conducting board exam for classes 5 and 8 this year and then rescinded it. When the state government moved on the fast track by …
