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Annie and Arjun
WRITTEN BY VARSHA VARGHESEILLUSTRATED BY TWISHA MANIAR
Annie and Arjun have a problem - they just don’t get enough time in the day to play together! They have been assigned duties at home but are really perturbed how these duties have been decided by their parents - why does Annie have a separate set of chores, and Arjun the rest? Why can’t they both wash the dinner plates; it leads to a rather delicious activity of making soap bubbles! Watch them solve their problems and get inspired by it too!
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This is a heartwarming story of two children, Annie and Arjun, who are puzzled by the assignment of chores to them and see it as a problem that stops them from spending time with each other. Through the course of the story, Annie and Arjun, debate, ideate and finally come up with a solution that can be an inspiration to many.
Up till the age of eight, children learn mostly through observation and imitation. Several places like home, schools and other institutions become instrumental in displaying for the child roles they are supposed to adopt. Both Annie and Arjun are thinking about gender norms at home, and develop a new system that works out to their advantage (so they have more play time!) at the same time sharing responsibly work at home.
Tags: sexism, gender, children, critical thinking, problem solving, gender norms