khushboo1984

@khushboo1984 (1257)

India • Age 40

Joined myLot 18 years ago

Me with Stef and Gauri

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Alone and Contented

lovesfreedom @lovesfreedom (1245) • United States 24 Feb 07

Are you the type of person who has to have alot of people around, or at least one person around to be contented or do you seek the silence of being alone? I have found that I am a mixture of both and it depends on my mood which...

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khushboo1984 You can say that i am mixture of both. There are time s when I need a lot of people around me . This usually happens when I am a bit sad or when I have made any decision and I dont know whether I Had made a right decision. And there are imes when I hate people...

25 Feb 07

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How did you come up with your childs name?

nascar_girl_4jr @nascar_girl_4jr (315) • United States 24 Feb 07

With my first daughter, We wanted her initials to match her dads initials, and with my second daughter I found her name (Madison) in a crossword puzzle I was doing when I was 8 months pregnant. (answer was Madison Avenue) but I...

babies name

how to name a child

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khushboo1984 I am still single but I have thought about some names for my kids. If I would have a girl then I would name her after a flower as my name means sweet smell. My name and mother's name also have this same link . Her name is a name of a flower and my name means...

25 Feb 07

How much sugar do you let your children have? Soda?

astromama @astromama (1221) • United States 25 Feb 07

Hi, I was wondering what restrictions you put on your children's sugar intake, and if you let them drink soda. I had an argument with my mother earlier about certain parenting philosophies of mine (don't ask) and I let her know my...

children

parenting

sugar

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khushboo1984 I am not a mother yet but, I had helped my aunts raise their kids. I feel that all that you are sying a=is practical. You should not give soda to your child until he is atleast 5 years of age as these sodas can be harmful. And dont worry about your mother she...

25 Feb 07

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what is your opinion on giving money as gifts?

Sasselle @Sasselle (698) • Australia 25 Feb 07

I went to a lovely wedding yesterday and I guess it made me think about this. So I have two questions ... Do you find it rude if you are asked to give money as a gift? and Have you ever felt ripped off if you have given money...

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khushboo1984 If the person who is asking me the money as a gift is someone who is very close to me then I dont think that it is wrong to do so. I too have asked cash so many times as my birthday present to my relatives because I Dont want to end up having 2 similar gifts....

25 Feb 07

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Creative people- What information do you need?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 24 Feb 07

I'm in the process of putting together a page on my web site for creative people. The idea is to provide a series of articles and links. So far I've got links to Free Expression, as site dealing with creative rights to self...

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khushboo1984 Your basic idea is very good. But, You can improve on that a bit. If you want to open a website for creative people then you should also provide some links seeing which we may come to know something about the traditional artwork of a country. You can provide...

25 Feb 07

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How do you take criticism?

arkaf61 @arkaf61 (10881) • Canada 24 Feb 07

NO matter what we do, say or act, we will find those who criticize us. Sometimes it's actually constructive criticism. How do you take that criticism? Do you get defensive? Do you hear the opinion and analyze it to see if there...

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khushboo1984 It depends a lot on the person who is critising me. If that person hold an important part in my life then I listen to what he has to say. If I find the advice useful then I do try to act on theat advice. But, generally if it is a stranger who is critising me...

25 Feb 07

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Would you embrace the prospect of school uniforms for your children?

Willowlady @Willowlady (10658) • United States 15 Feb 07

Cleveland, Ohio public schools are deciding to make all-boy an dall-girl schools and require uniforms in the elementary grades. High school students will have a dress code. Their goal it is stated is to have the kids come to...

parenting

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khushboo1984 In India it is compulsory to wear school uniforms. In some parts of India specially the southern part we even have uniforms for college students. In my opinion the School uniforms should be made compulsory in every part of the world. In a school you will have...

16 Feb 07

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Do you grudge the price of greetings cards

weemam @weemam (13372) 8 Feb 07

Its my dads 89th birthday on Sunday and I took my Mam to the card shop to buy him a card , She paid £3.99 for one and they are not even the words she wanted to say, As some of you already know by my discussions , I write poems , I...

greetings cards

too expensive

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khushboo1984 I agree with you. Cards have really become very expensive and not that good as they used to be. I prefer e-cards or I usually make one for my friends. I dont have time so I cannot make cards for everyone but, I try to make as many as I can and I know my frinds...

9 Feb 07

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Breast Milk or Formula Milk?

gnamarie @gnamarie (39) • Philippines 8 Feb 07

I personally did mixed feeding for my daughter. My milk supply isn't sufficient so I had to resort to the formula milk. I noticed that babies prefer the breastmilk. Though there are lots of advantages & disadvantages of one from...

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khushboo1984 I am not yet married. But, whenever I will have a child I will breast feed them. Mother's milk is the best for any child and I want the best for my child. So there is no confusion in my case. I would feed my own milk to my child.

9 Feb 07

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One man's trash, another man's treasure???

happymommy3 @happymommy3 (2012) • United States 8 Feb 07

What do you think? Have you ever picked something up that someone has trown out and really used it? I have, several times. You'd be surprised some of the stuff people will put out in their front yards for trash. Not saying I...

life in general

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khushboo1984 I have not gone from house to house and collected junk. But, I do collect some junk when I am cleaning my house and if I find anything interesting then I do recycle them and create a new thing. For example, I never throw those artifical earnings which are...

9 Feb 07

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Does Your Birth Date Affect The Rest Of Your Life

Brian @wolfie34 (26771) • United Kingdom 8 Feb 07

I've often wonder whether I was born at the wrong time, wrong day, wrong month, wrong year? Does your birth date affect what sort of life you are going to lead? Do you believe in the stars, horoscopes and does this affect how your...

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khushboo1984 I really dont beleive in stars and horoscopes. In my family my birth proved to be very lucky. But sometimes my mother complains that I was born on the wrong date as I share my birthday with my grandmother and I am a lot like her so my mother keeps saying that...

9 Feb 07

Do you think we push our kids too hard?

CatEyes @CatEyes (2448) • United States 8 Feb 07

Do you think we push our kids to hard? I mean with them being at school full time it is like a full time job for them, then they come home and have extracurricular activities IE sports, music what not, and then they have more...

kids

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khushboo1984 I completely agree with you. Today kids are loosing there carefree life and their innocence. I had just passed my college and used to go to school not too ago. We also had competetion in school but, not like today's time. When I see my younger cousins now a...

9 Feb 07

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Making Money online

Miriel @Miriel (1041) • Norway 8 Feb 07

For almost 3 weeks I have been working on my project on finding out if it is possible to make money online without investment. And yes - it is! Well I have not been rich - but that was never my intention either. If you want to...

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khushboo1984 I would say that there are a lot of for people living in the US but not for people living in the Asian countries. There are only a few sites available for Asian citizens. My experience till now is bad but, I just post messages for fun as I enjoy sharing my...

9 Feb 07

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How To Make A Homemade Board Game

villageanne @villageanne (8553) • United States 6 Feb 07

My family loves to play board games. When the girls and their family come home for a visit, they will be found at the kitchen table till late in the night, playing board games. The problem is that board games are getting expensive...

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khushboo1984 Your discussion brought back old memories. I used to live in a joint family and we were 5 kids in the house. We used to make a lot of these kinds of games to keep ourselves entertained. In one of my local children's magazine they used to get a lot of these...

7 Feb 07

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When protection isn't good!!!!

sunshinecup @sunshinecup (7871) 7 Feb 07

I have waited 3 years to buy the CD I purchased yesterday. Finally I get it and I am as giggly as a virgin on prom night, let me tell ya. So I run home pop it in the PC, so I can listen to it while catching up on posts, and…...

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khushboo1984 This is really stupid on the part of the CD Manufacturing company. Now a days people generally prefer to listen to the songs on their computer when they work. I agree with you that if a CD does not play in a particular media it should then be mentioned so on...

7 Feb 07

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Let Me Hear About Some Of Your Stories About Your Dog.

sunshinelady @sunshinelady (7609) • United States 6 Feb 07

My dog Fluffy has been passed away for many years but I still remember him just like he is here today. We got him for our son on Christmas eve a long time ago and we lived in North Dakota. All the other puppies greeted us at the...

dogs

great pets

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khushboo1984 My family had a very bad experience with a dog. We used to have a dog when I was very small. That dog was very ill mannered and used to chew my father's cloth. once it even ate my uncle's purse which had a lot of money. We got rid of that dog when it tried to...

7 Feb 07

Do you like being compared to other people?

hopeful28 @hopeful28 (1439) • Singapore 7 Feb 07

One of the things that I resented when I was young and even now is when I am being compared with my siblings, relatives or friends. I am always not as clever, as hardworking, as good looking, as smart or hardworking than this or...

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khushboo1984 I had been compared witha lot of people in my life but, this has not made me loose my self respect. I just hear it from one year and take it out from another because what I had faced in my life no one had faced and it is too easy to compare two persons but...

7 Feb 07

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