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Parenting
tips are just a click away
By Frederick
Noronha
www.apnic.net
MILES away from mother and don't
know how to deal with your baby the
Indian way? Don't panic. Just log
on to the Internet and get the best
parenting tips Indian tradition
has to offer. For Indians, or people
of Indian origin, who have lost
access to traditional ways and need
urgent tips on bringing up children,
IndiaParenting.com has all the
answers.
Do you have questions of what Indian
tradition has to say on diet
during pregnancy, or new-born care?
Wondering what grandmom would
have done by way of home remedies,
or what exactly is the
significance of Indian customs of
`godh bharna', `mundan' and
`naamkaran'? Answers to all that
and much more are on the website.
"We have here a veritable storehouse
of information on pregnancy,
childbirth, new-born care, developmental
milestones, common childhood
illnesses and much more,'' says
Nirali Sanghi, the CEO of the company
that put IndiaParenting together.
She knows just how many questions
parents have because she herself
became a mother recently. "This is a
one-stop shop not only for parents
but also for people who want to
buy gifts for their nieces or nephews,''
says Sanghi.
Launched just a few months ago, IndiaParenting.com
is already drawing
visits from expatriate Indians in
different parts of the world,
including Britain, Australia, the
US, Indonesia, South Africa and
Japan.
"Visitors say they found this site
`something that Indian parents
sorely needed','' says Sanghi. Her
aim is to make it "the most
complete and comprehensive guide
for Indian parents all over the
world.''
The website has a section devoted
to health issues of women who feel
they're no longer in their prime.
For those finding it hard to
conceive, there's a fertility section.
Internet surfers can also consult
the site's panel of doctors on any
health issue or pose questions that
they were too embarrassed to ask
in person. The specialists on the
panel include leading
gynaecologists, paediatricians,
radiologists, cardiologists,
neurologists, speech pathologists
and dentists. To help parents teach
their children Indian traditions,
there are also nursery rhymes in
various Indian languages (with select
audio clips) and Indian prayers
of different religions.
Famous Indian epics, like the `Ramayana'
and `Mahabharata', tales of
the `Panchatantra' and stories of
emperor Akbar and his aide Birbal
are also a few mouse clicks away.
Party games, reviews of children's
films, horoscopes and a section
on numerology are also featured on
the website. So is a list of over
2,000 Indian names, with meanings.
>From a site of about 200 pages,
IndiaParenting.com now has more than
1,800 pages of content. Already
20 man-months of time have been
invested in designing and developing
the website.
Sanghi, the brain behind the site,
left a high profile corporate job
at the Boston Consulting Group to
capitalise on the Internet boom and
establish a family of websites.
After a nine-year stint in the US,
she returned to India in 1995. She
has worked for Citibank in New
York and was a management consultant
at the Boston Consultant Group's
Mumbai office till 1998. - IANS
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