Monthly Archives: September 2011
When to Talk to Your Child about Puberty, Sex and Stuff Like That
You want the best possible life for your child. At every age and stage of her life, you want to see her happy, healthy, successful, fulfilled, enjoying great relationships, living a sane and balanced life. This is your dream for … Continue reading
Fix Your Child’s Most Irritating Habit
If someone asked you to identify your child’s most irritating habit, it would take you some time to do so. Not because you have to think really hard to identify it, but because there are so many, that you’d need … Continue reading
Why Parenting is a Bad Career Option
You are a dedicated career person, relatively happy and busy, progressing in your field. Then you hit a speed-bump called ‘having a baby’. Most societies are patriarchal, so the parent who stays home to look after the kids full-time (if … Continue reading
The Myth of Quality Time
You are a busy person. You wear many hats, and manage, somehow, to stay on top of it all. One day, a baby gets added to your packed schedule. You have some months’ notice, so you start clearing your schedule … Continue reading
The Benefits of Not Managing Stress
There was a time, perhaps in your childhood, when only adults experienced stress. The adults might not have known the word ‘stress’, but they experienced it. There was a living to earn, a family to provide for and raise, parents … Continue reading
When Parents Fight: How to Reduce Your Child’s Pain
At the heart of parenting is the idea that you are the best parent in the world when you are yourself. Sometimes, unfortunately, when the parents of a child are themselves, the combination is explosive. They clash too hard or … Continue reading
When Parents Fight
We are so unnatural around little children! We don’t want them to know about hurt, anxiety, anger, fear. More precisely, we don’t want them to know that any ‘negative’ emotions exist outside their little world. We behave like Gautama Buddha’s … Continue reading
The F-word You Don’t Want Your Child to Say
Background: In my family, we use bad language sparingly. I don’t mean sparingly around children; I mean even by ourselves or around an adult audience. We don’t use too many swear words. So my daughter has grown up in a … Continue reading
Motivating Your Child
Motivate (verb): to provide with a motive or motives; incite; impel. I’d agreed to conduct a few sessions on Fun with English as part of an Integrated Summer Workshop. One day we explored Creative Writing. The next day, a Grade … Continue reading
The Power of Expectation
A lot of people think I’m crazy. Well, it’s a free world, and people can think what they want, is my response to that. What’s interesting is why they think I’m crazy. One of the reasons people think I’m loco … Continue reading