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2019 Monsoon with Tigger

Monsoon – the season that brings with it drizzles, showers, bajjis, and loads of fun

There are a few lovely memories of my childhood associated with the monsoon season.

The first monsoon that I remember as a child was probably when I was around 5 years old. Me and my sister would run up with our mom and our aunt to the house terrace to hastily take off the clothes that were hung to dry. Most of…

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Happy Father's Day

Happy Father’s Day

You may not always be appreciated for all the hard work you put in You may not always get the biggest share of ice cream that you secretly wanted You may not be shown enough love as a mom gets sometimes You may not have seen many firsts as you had to leave your kid(s) behind and go to work You may feel like the family doesn’t agree with you sometimes You may feel like your sacrifices are not even…

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The brand Chicco came to India in 2008 and they have gradually become one of the top few chosen brands that parents trust and love. This post is a review of their Monkey Strike Game based on the experiences that I and Tigger (my son) had while playing with the toy. Yes, I do play with his toys too. Mostly with him but sometimes just on my own 😏 I say it is to test the toy but when it is so much fun, who wouldn’t want to play with toys?

Toys are to a child what the Internet is to the Generation X

Remember when the thought of going to a mall meant riding escalating and having fun at the bowling alley. If you are a 90s kid like me, you would be reminiscing those memories now. The heavy bowling ball, trying to figure out what weight suits you, running and skidding on those shiny runways and trying to score a single pin if not a strike. That pure joy in watching the pins tumble down as you finally master how to bowl right. Those are some precious memories. Chicco has brought back those memories in a toddler-sized package in the form of this monkey strike game.

The box contains 6 sets of pins. I say set because the top and the bottom are two different pieces that you put together. The top half has a cute little monkey face in bright colours with ears and the bottom half has a number in the matching colour. (There are so many different ways which Tigger uses them and I will come to it later.) The box also contains a bowling ball with three cute little debts for Tigger’s fingers. The ball is bright red in colour. There are instructions on the box, a separate instruction leaflet and a leaflet with the address and the contact number of their office.

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Here are the different ways in which we play with it thus far

Bowling:

Just assemble the monkey pins as you would assemble any bowling pin set. We did it the classic way – 1 pin in the first row, 2 pins in the second and 3 pins in the third row. I tried showing Tigger that he needs to come a little away and roll the ball but he found it more fun to randomly throw the ball at the pins and squeal in joy as the tumbled. He also made sure that any standing in was hit repeatedly till it succumbed to its ultimate defeat.

Stacking up:

One monkey pin was placed on top of another and this we tried to make towers, tall, wide-based, and he even tried to make a giraffe (That is the only thing that comes to his mind when I say Tall). First, it was as a whole set and then he split them into halves and tried making many iterations. He did get a little angry when they didn’t quietly stand strong but wasn’t that an opportunity for me to teach my little one patience, perseverance, acceptance and not giving up? I tried, don’t ask me if he understood.

Colours:

‘The orange monkey is feeling alone… Uhmm is that right? Where is the orange cup? Let’s try to put them together’

‘How about a blue cup and green monkey now?‘ I and Tigger used the toy as a tool to help learn colours

Where is it?

The cups were then used to hide a tiny toy or a smaller ball and I tried asking Tigger to figure out under which cup it was hiding. To my surprise, he found it no matter how many times I switched the cups. So, I naturally asked him to do the hiding and switching. He did so and asked me ‘Ball ennne? (Ball enge means where is the ball in Tamil). But before I could answer, he lifted the cup and showed it to me with even more excitement. The innocence of this little one!

The box itself comes with bright colours and neat instructions on what it can be used for, and other details that assist a curious parent buying a toy. Tigger is the type of kid that loves anything that comes in a box. He plays for a long while with the box itself, throwing things into and out of the box. And since this was a bright coloured sturdy box, he just couldn’t resist himself from playing ‘in-out’ for a long time. This is what I had mentioned in my review of Chicco’s Activity Ball review and I am happy to report this hasn’t changed at all

Other Details:

Targetted age group: 18months+

Price – MRP is Rs 1675

Online – Use this link to buy the same at Rs. 1394 from Amazon

Material – safe and sturdy plastic.

No choking Hazard. Always supervise the child even if it is a peep from the kitchen as the little one plays with his toy in the drawing room.

The monkey strike game was sent to me by the lovely folks behind Chicco, for my honest review. I have written this blog post with my original personal experience and the opinions here are completely unbiased. Do give this toy a chance and you will find yourself agreeing with me.

Chicco Monkey Strike – Tigger Review The brand Chicco came to India in 2008 and they have gradually become one of the top few chosen brands that parents trust and love.

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Coming Round the Mountain - Tigger Reviews

Coming Round the Mountain – Tigger Reviews

A young teen has his life roll out beautifully and he is shown to enjoy it as any other boy would. But as soon as he realizes what freedom means, he is forced to say bye to a few friends who grew up with him. How he understands his own emotions as the event ubravel is the story of this book.

I loved the way the author explains small and big events with as much details necessary for anyone to…

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In My Heart - Tigger Reviews

In My Heart – Tigger Reviews

There are certain topics that are quite easy to explain to a child and a certain other topics that are a little sensitive. A child is naturally curious and bubbling with questions to understand anything and everything better. When a care giver takes the time and effort to sit down and talk to a child about things, a child realizes the importance given to such topics and makes additional efforts…

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Jungle Radio - Tigger Reviews

Jungle Radio – Tigger Reviews

It all started with waking up to the Koo Koo of the koel one day. Tigger, just like any other average toddler, always loved running to a lot what the source of any new sound was. He spotted a koel cooing and animated by showed me that he found the source. I promptly told him that it was a kuil (Koel in Tamil) and we both kept making Koo Koo sounds at each other for a while. He had only seen or…

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Slap

She was holding the little baby who sat on her lap. She was showing the baby a little car that she held in her hand. The baby suddenly threw up on her hands and started crying. The little one’s mother took her away to wash. She gave herself a look to see if the baby’s puke was spilt anywhere else and was about to get up to wash her hands. At the exact moment, he walked in and threw down the bags…

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Mom Blogger!?!

This is the fourth post on a series of posts I am planning to write on mommying! Click here to read them all.

PROMPT 4:

Why I became a mom blogger!

Tigger was born in November and as soon as I was almost recovered enough from my delivery, I was ready to do something. Physically things were completely exhausting, yes. But my mind was going insane because of staying idle the whole day. Nursing a…

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Fragile Motherhood

This post is part 1 of my song series. Click here to read more. Songs 2 and 4 will be on my instagram.

Song 3 – Beautiful by Christina Aguilera Disclaimer:

Beautiful by Christina Aguilera (2002) is copyrighted and I have no rights over it. I am one of the millions of people who watched and loved the song.

The human body can do wonders. Everyone who knows a mom before she became a mom, and…

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My life my way!

My life my way!

This post is part 1 of my song series. Click here to read more.

Song 1 – Shake it off Disclaimer:

Shake it off by Taylor Swift (2014) is copyrighted and I have no rights over it. I am one of the millions of people who watched and loved the song. I am sharing the lyrics that I love and my own version of the song that I play in my head.

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I have had so many…

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Work in Progress

Prompt: Why I love being a lenient (I hope so) stay at home mom!

Life was super organized before I was a mom. I woke up at 5 AM, exercised for an hour, made Salad for breakfast, cycled to the office and came back to a similar routine.

That felt really weird to type because that is nowhere near the truth. I was always a last min person. Give me a deadline of 5 days and I will find all my talent…

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My way or the highway!

This is the third post on a series of posts I am planning to write on mommying! Click here to read them all.

PROMPT 3: When nothing works my way, what saves the day!

There are days when everything goes according to the plan. Each hour goes the way it should and by the end of the day, I feel more like an empress than a mom. As if I just executed the master level plan of Mission Impossible.

There…

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Wake up sleepy head!

This is the first post on a series of posts I am planning to write on mommying! Click here to read them all.

PROMPT 2: 5 ways I keep myself energized!

There may be many more but here are five that worked for me

1. Sleep

I don’t think there can possibly be any natural remedy that works as beautifully as sleep does to a tired mom. Just a 20 min nap can do wonders on a bad day.

2. Deep breaths

Som…

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Travelling with a Toddler

Travelling with a teeny tiny temper tantrum throwing teeth troubling yet cute toddler is hard. We did exactly that last month, at a time when Tigger was getting his premolar. A lot of tantrums but he had loads of fun too. so what helped us? Read on to know how we managed to make the travelling toddler-friendly.

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Make a list for packing

Clothes (3sets per day is…

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Parenting is hard! But so is Life!

This is the first post on a series of posts I am planning to write on mommying! Click here to read them all.

PROMPT 1: My MANTRA!

Many parents tell their kids to start adulting as soon as they reach their 20s. No kid would have escaped it. But I am pretty sure that most of us dreaded it. Why will we give up all the luxuries of being cared for, and do it all by ourselves, right? Well, now I…

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Not so little Sam and Ajnis!

Ajnis was a happy and proud mom of little Sam. She made sure Sam was a respectful, understanding and a kind kid. There weren’t any medals or trophies in her hall showcase, but only pictures of Sam being a typical happy kid who had then become a well mannered, friendly, interested-in-everything-from-coding-to-donating-from-dance-to-master chef level-cooking teen.

One day Sam brought home a friend…

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I really excited to visit the Klay Prep School at Sholinganallur.

Out of the 4 branches they have opened in Chennai, this one was quite close to my uncle’s place but that wasn’t the reason why I didn’t have any trouble finding it not becaus

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