Authors

Natalie Parotikova
Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Engineer-Ecologist. Right now – just a mom.

Favourite activity: inventing here and there starting from daily routine to the child’s upbringing. Fields of interest: photography, design, family pedagogics, Sahaja Yoga.

Author of the blog: «Silent Music of Photography» (rus) , «For Mothers’ Chalking up!» (rus) in co-authorship with Anastasia.

Favourite saying:
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – A. Einstein

Anastasia Polunina
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Linguist, teacher of English and Russian as a foreign language.

Lifestyle: creativity in all life aspects.

Fields of interest: photography, painting and drawing, traveling, Alpine skiing, do-it-yourself things, Sahaja Yoga.

Author of the blogs: «Seekers’ Notes» (rus), «Children’s Land» (eng), «For Mothers’ Chalking up!» (rus) in co-authorship with Natalie.

Position in life is described by the sayings:

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”  Buddha

“All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.” Samuel Butler

The authors of this blog got acquainted in the Internet working at a collective project. In half a year, due to some a concurrence of circumstances, Anastasia with her husband Valery turned out at Natalie and Serge’s place. And in some more 2,5 years, with eh difference in only 3 months minus 1 day, baby-son Arseny arrived at Natalie’s family and baby-daughter – at Anastasia’s.

All these years of friendship we have been constantly sharing creative ideas for all the fields of our life, we have also launched several mutual projects. Right now we are mostly interested in parents’ ideas, tips and tricks on how to make household chores a joyful activity and the process of the child’s development rich and absorbing for all the members of the family. Life with kids is easy! And the proof of it is our Project “Parents’ Ideas” that we started when our babies had not turned 1 .

On the pages of this blog we collect our experience and the experience of other parents to share it with all our readers.

You are very welcome!
Anastasia and Natalie