Child ceremonies .......

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

Naamkaran now also.... :woohoo:
But you have to give his name at hospital for birth registration. If so???
Also, will pandit give the name??? Not parents????

What is manlike??? :blink:

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

Naamkaran now also.... :woohoo:
But you have to give his name at hospital for birth registration. If so???
Also, will pandit give the name??? Not parents????

What is manlike??? :blink:

in my family it is not followed thats why we all have name starting with A but i have witnessed it in many houses around.

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

Naamkaran now also.... :woohoo:
But you have to give his name at hospital for birth registration. If so???
Also, will pandit give the name??? Not parents????

What is manlike??? :blink:

in my family it is not followed thats why we all have name starting with A but i have witnessed it in many houses around.

If so you will get some old names.
Christians do so...will get 3 or 4 names together...lengthy names..Isn't it?

What's manlike?

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

Naamkaran now also.... :woohoo:
But you have to give his name at hospital for birth registration. If so???
Also, will pandit give the name??? Not parents????

What is manlike??? :blink:

in my family it is not followed thats why we all have name starting with A but i have witnessed it in many houses around.

If so you will get some old names.
Christians do so...will get 3 or 4 names together...lengthy names..Isn't it?

What's manlike?

but i dont have an old name.yes now i found many people with this name but thats ok.and my name perfectly fits my personality.

child ceremonies in north side and in my house is a little bit different as told by you.at my place at the time of birth if child is manlik we do some pooja after 17 or 25 days of his birth.when the single teeth of baby comes in 6th or 7th month his/her uncle(mama) give him utensils of silver for food feeding.basically bowl and spoon. and children hair are grown long till we perform his hair cutting ceremony may be till 1 year or 2 year.we also have naamkaran puja where a pandit or someone come and tell the first letter and from that we keep his name.

Naamkaran now also.... :woohoo:
But you have to give his name at hospital for birth registration. If so???
Also, will pandit give the name??? Not parents????

What is manlike??? :blink:

in my family it is not followed thats why we all have name starting with A but i have witnessed it in many houses around.

If so you will get some old names.
Christians do so...will get 3 or 4 names together...lengthy names..Isn't it?

What's manlike?[/quote

Where is your answer baby?

On the 21st day of the baby born, we give the name to the baby and we keep them in the cradle and then after one month, on a good day you feed the baby with rice, next on auspicious day espcialy on the birthday of saraswathi devi, you make the baby to study first time. next, we keep few things infront of the baby and make the baby to choose any of the 3. by those things we estimate what the baby may become

On the 21st day of the baby born, we give the name to the baby and we keep them in the cradle and then after one month, on a good day you feed the baby with rice, next on auspicious day espcialy on the birthday of saraswathi devi, you make the baby to study first time. next, we keep few things infront of the baby and make the baby to choose any of the 3. by those things we estimate what the baby may become

I also heard so.....but I think it's not practised here.

We make them study on Saraswathi pooja.....the end day of Desara celebrations...Vijaya dasami.....(My girl was born one day before that-Mahanavami-Aayudha pooja). As I told , any famous person at the temple makes her write 'Harishree' in a plate of rice known as vidyaarambham.
Sarala, when is Saraswathi maa's birthday?

Its already went this day. Saraswathi maa's pooja comes on the moola star on some thithe

Let me share a link and a photo of this auspicious ceremony....

http://in.news.yahoo.com/hindu-christian-kerala-kids-vidyarambham-072934557.html

Actually, Christians also conduct the same ceremony on Saraswathi pooja in middle Kerala like Kottayam, Pathanamthitta etc :woohoo: :woohoo: though they write something else instead of Harisree


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Let me share a link and a photo of this auspicious ceremony....

http://in.news.yahoo.com/hindu-christian-kerala-kids-vidyarambham-072934557.html

Actually, Christians also conduct the same ceremony on Saraswathi pooja in middle Kerala like Kottayam, Pathanamthitta etc :woohoo: :woohoo: though they write something else instead of Harisree


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di what exactly they are doing.do they make child write through pen on something like paper or other thing?
and what the person is writing on baby's lips?

Let me share a link and a photo of this auspicious ceremony....

http://in.news.yahoo.com/hindu-christian-kerala-kids-vidyarambham-072934557.html

Actually, Christians also conduct the same ceremony on Saraswathi pooja in middle Kerala like Kottayam, Pathanamthitta etc :woohoo: :woohoo: though they write something else instead of Harisree


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di what exactly they are doing.do they make child write through pen on something like paper or other thing?
and what the person is writing on baby's lips?

Not lips....but tongue.....Ohm..
Most kids cry while seeing strangers...best shown in pictures.
In some temples, kids are made sit on parents' lap so that they won't cry seeing strangers and big crowd.

They use a bowl of rice to make kid write, 'Hari shree'
"Om Harishree ganapathaayee namah"

Its already went this day. Saraswathi maa's pooja comes on the moola star on some thithe

So your star..Isn't it?
I ahve just checked the calender. It doesn't come as a part of mahanavami/desara celebrations. So, I think not in October

Can you come forward with some nice answers??

I am pulling this thread up as I really want to know about child ceremonies of our country

When I was of 7 months a small ceremony what we called in bengali was annaprasan i.e mundan was celebrated and I have many photo of that ceremony of . I also heard from my mother that a grand party was thrown on the day.So like this many ceremonues are their for child.

I think the main ceremonies are 'naam Maran' and 'Mundan' Naam karan is just giving a 'name' to the child and 'mundan' is hair cut.. In some communities, there are also customs relating to first food taking by child, first admission in school and so on. The Muslims observe 'Sunnat'. The Christians have baptism.

When I was of 7 months a small ceremony what we called in bengali was annaprasan i.e mundan was celebrated and I have many photo of that ceremony of . I also heard from my mother that a grand party was thrown on the day.So like this many ceremonues are their for child.

Ram has already told about Annaprasam.
We also have.....the first time when rice food is given.


In the 28th day of birth, we tie black thread around his waist and put black bangles. Then only given colour dresses and ornaments. Do you have such customs?
When will you wear kids with ornaments first ?

I think the main ceremonies are 'naam Maran' and 'Mundan' Naam karan is just giving a 'name' to the child ad 'mundan' is hair cut.

Mundan means hair cutting. Isn't it?
Many people take their kids to Thirupathi or Palani at the age of 1.

Christians also do so at the age of 1. they go to Velankanni matha church