Our baby has had diaper rash couple of times. Recently, he had diarrhea and the diaper rash was bad.

The below method worked well for us in getting through this phase.

• Change the diaper frequently. We used to change it every 1-1/2 hours.
• Give lots of free time i.e. without diaper on. Our little one doesnt like staying still. We played him a animation movie (Madagascar) and lay him on his back without a diaper.
• Dry well (using a paper towel) on every diaper change.
• After drying, apply some diaper rash cream or petroleum jelly. This protects the skin from the wetness.
• If the baby is not having a diarrhea, you can put a hole in his diaper and let him sleep during the night. Make sure, there is a plastic sheet or something similar to protect the mattress. But this trick is a fast healer.
• When changing the diaper, try using paper tissue soaked in water, or even his baby wipes soaked in water. Clean gently. Rubbing might worsen the rash.

We found that air is the best healer for a rash.

Just thought of writing about the morals/thoughts I learned or realized after watching the hindi movie called “Tare zameen par” which means “Stars on the Earth” in english. The movie is about a boy who has difficulty in reading and writing, but has other significant skills with painting and creativity.

Parents and teachers continually put him down branding him as a good-for-nothing foolish child. Once a teacher who had similar problems in his own childhood meets this boy, he realizes and helps this boy. Finally, the boy’s confidence develops and he starts making very good progress that the teahers speak very well of him.

Some thoughts I had after watching the movie:

- Parents – never break a child’s spirit. Never brand them negatively.

- For all of us- We all have unique talents and ways of creativity. Dont ever stop pursuing it. Dont allow the world and others to adulterate the unique creativity in you.

I really love what Google is doing. It says – you ‘ve to work 4 days a week for the projects assigned. We will pay 1 day for you to be creative and dream. Popular google products like Gmail and many others came out of this 1 paid day of creativity. When will the other companies learn from this example?

- One statement in the movie goes like this: “…each child has his pace to study and pick up things .. dont pressurize them, they will learn it today or tomorrow.

As example to this statement. There were very studious and average and below average students from my school and college. But finally, I see most of them ending up with top IT companies. Some below average or average folks are even managing the studious folks.