Serendib Kids

Kavi has had some friends having tough times this year, and she’s a pretty empathetic kid, and as a result she’s had tough times, and it’s all just hard, folks. Sometimes I want to wrap my kids up in blankets and just snuggle them for a few years. I told Kavi last night that I […]

Hey, South Asian peeps — I have a cultural question. You know how there’s a point when a young woman transitions from wearing a half-sari to a sari? Is there a name for that moment? I know there’s a whole set of rituals that go along with puberty and wearing the half-sari for the first

Remember Kavi was going to a party on a party bus this Saturday, and I was confused? Because she’s 14 (almost 15)? It made more sense when I learned that it was a quinceañera party (for the girl in the fabulous pink ball gown and tiara). (Editing to note: The birthday girl’s mom was on

Kavi has been invited to a birthday party that is apparently taking place on a party bus, and she needed a formal dress for it, so we did a quick run down to the mall at Cermak, where there are many affordable teen prom-type dresses at Windsor, and she found something she liked pretty quickly,