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Does your child favour store-bought, readymade food over what is traditional and homemade? Tell him stories about the Gods and their favourite foods to bring about a change in his preferences.

RECIPE OF SIMPLE CHOCOCHIP CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR A FUN EVENING WITH SOME HOT/ COLD COFFEE.

In a bowl sieve 3 cups of all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 cup cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and keep aside. In another bowl, whisk melted butter, castor sugar and 2 eggs till the contents double and become light. pour the liquid mixture into the contents of the dry bowl and mix gently by cutting and folding the batter in the shape of the number 8. Add half a cup of milk to get the right consistency, 1 tsp of vanilla essence and a dash of few chocochips.
Preheat the oven at 100C for 10 mins. grease a baking mould with butter and dust it with some flour. Pour the cake mixture and put it in the oven for to bake for 30 mins at 180C. To know if the cake is ready insert a clean knife and if it comes out clean, voila your cake is done.
You can drizzle some chocolate syrup on he cake and relish it with a bitter-sweet cup of hot or cold coffee with your family this summer vacation.

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Bread-chole tawapulav
Ingredients
1- Basmati rice - half kg
2- Bread - 5 slices
3- Carrot - 3 nos
4- beans- quater kg
5- capsicum- 2 nos
6- cabbage (small)
7- onion - 4 nos
8 - kabul channa/chole - 500 gms
9- ginger garlic paste
10- ghee / oil for frying
11- Cinnamon, elaichi ,clove etc
12- Salt , chilly powder , garam masala
13-200 ml curds
Procedure
1- Soak basmati rice in water for about 15 mins and steam the rice.
2- Simultaneously chop all the vegetables and bread in cubes
3- Deep fry the bread cubes keep aside
4- Fry the onions first then and ginger garlic paste, spices (clove, cinnamon etc)
4- Later add chopped vegetables to it and fry
5- Meanwhile boil the soaked Channa
6- Add chilly powder ,garam masala and salt to the same pan after frying.
7- Also add curds ( beat thoroughly)
8- Add the boiled channa to the same pan
9- Add the steamed rice mix well.

Tips to help toddlers develop motor skills.
Everything from buttoning a shirt to tying shoes requires fine motor skills. I hardly remember my parents buying toys for us those day. Very few toys were bought and in fact there was no categorised toys to help us learn motor skills and all. So, here are few tips that how can you help your child develop motor skills without buying expensive toys. You can use this to reduce screen time too.

?Let your little one finger feed as much as possible. Picking up food with her fingers will help her develop a pincer grasp ,using thumb and first finger.

? If you have beads of ur normal chain and thread give the baby a thread to put beads one by one on to the thread. This needs supervision and it's not expensive too. Straws can be used as beads, to thread onto something.

?Opening a zipper bag and closing it is a motor skill developing activity.

?Around 2 years , provide small crayons that fit into your little ones hands and let them scribble on a piece of paper.

?Help your baby open and close the latches of the doors or their own sippers. Scribbling with a pencil or help with a chalk n a slate board.

?Buy a therma coal board help ur kid punch a hole with pencil ,its another motor skill activity.

?Use a regular piggy banks or a recycled container and encourage your child to hold 2 or 3 coins in the hand and push them through the hole in the box one at a time without dropping the others.

?Use the clothes pins to pick up and transfer items from one container to another.

?Get your child to squash, squeeze, roll and pound with the play dough or atta.

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