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Shivali Mathur, a mother, home manager and an artist!

Womenlines introduces Shivali as entrepreneur of the month because of her extraordinary skills and achievements. Her story is motivating to all those aspiring ladies who want to create niche for themselves and also want to look after their family while managing their work from home.

Shivali is a commercial art artist. She is a Commercial art diploma holder from Jaipur college. She says that she never planned her career. She wanted to pursue modern office management but got admission in commercial arts. She was not aware

Woman who fills colours in everybody's life

at that time that she had taken a right decision for herself. She started her career in field of arts by taking art classes for kids in home. When she shifted to Singapore then her career graph started taking positive turns. She started making her own paintings. Once her little one had grown up, in 2005 she started taking drawing and painting classes in Singapore. That time she got a chance to participant as an Indian Artist in South Asian Art exhibition. There she got introduced to Temple of Fine Arts, Singapore and participated in three of the Dance India Taste India events organised in Singapore by them. She is also involved to promote Indian Art with India Tourism Board in Singapore at many of the events organised by them. Ang Mo Kio GRC also invited her to exhibit her art work at ‘Rhythms In Unity 07′. Along with all these activities, she also started conducting kids holiday workshops, kids birthday crafty workshops, art workshops for kids and ladies. Mind you ladies, her classes are not just only for kids and youngsters.Students of all age groups and from different walks of life come to her. She has students from age 50 to young as 4 years old. Some working women have also come to her to learn painting as they enjoy doing it and find it easy way to relax  themselves. Recently, she also got an opportunity to exhibit her art work and conduct workshop at ‘Celebrating Womanhood’, an event organised at Suntec, Singapore. Visit http://www.shivaliart.com/index.php to have a look at her work.

At present she has joined Global India international School as an Art and Craft CCA teacher and as a teacher for the Indian Club In Singapore Management University(SMU). In SMU, she is teaching various type of Indian paintings like Madhubani, Warli, Miniature paintings.

This path of her career has been built up by her hard work and dedication. In the meanwhile she became mother twice. She managed moving with her husband from one place to other, and is managing her home with a touch of art in it!

Its really aspiring ladies. If you have some art in your hand then don’t get it go waste!

You never know how God can help you out if you work with true dedication and integrity!

Kids throw tantrums and always they throw!

Kids yell, jump, throw things here and there, slap, bite, behave rudely, and do so many other undesirable activities which at times every parent wants to avoid. I have gone through so many phases of my kid throwing tantrums  which forced me to find out that why he is behaving in such a way and how I can create the desirable behaviour  in my child. While my research on Internet sites, through various books I gathered so much knowledge that I consider it must to share with my blog readers so that they can also be benefited.

Parenting is a subject in itself and every parent should be knowing that their are certain things to know and understand before you deal with your child. Ignorance can be a bliss but can cause you distress in later part of your life. That’s why I always say to my friends read as much as you can about parenting before you become one. Its definitely not an easy job and as nowadays most of the time there are nuclear families with nobody to guide you around you have to deal alone with your kids.

Positive behaviour in kids has to be nurtured out and cannot be achieved in one day. It demands your time , attention and desire to do it.

The first step to start with nurturing is to praise your child a lot. You will observe lots of improvement with recognizing good behaviour like patience, empathy, sibling caring, helping out others. While you are praising your child you are positively interacting with your child and if you do this act 6-7 times a week  you can just start with a baby step for reinforcement of type of behaviour you want. Praise is good as it builds self esteem, which is the inner feeling of competence which determines success in life. Make sure you are not praising your child for non-specific reason like “You are a good boy!” . Your praises must be for specific purpose like when your kid behaved properly praise like”That was like a grown up boy dear. When you are helpful to others you remind me that how big you are.Good Job!” We as a parent have to put lots of energy in complementing our kids to achieve desirable results.

Every child is a bundle of innocence and love. We have to learn to handle them with care so that as they grow they are having abundance of love in them which they can spread out around!