With Father’s Day approaching, I have been wondering what to buy for my dad. Would he like an all-purpose toolbox for the innumerable repair jobs he finds at home – an interest he picked up during the one year he was unemployed. Or, would he like a new golf mallet? Perhaps I shouldn’t . Isn’t this what had kept him …
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On The Fitness Track
Ameya’s parents were shocked. The doctor attributed the plump 12-year-old’s lack of concentration and attentiveness to malnutrition. How could a chubby-looking child from an upper class family be undernourished, they wondered? Obviously Ameya’s parents have mistaken their obese child to be healthy. And obese child usually grows up to become an obese adult. What are the effects of obesity? Parents …
Read More »Older Baby’s Bedtime Routine
Baby love routine and rituals, from six month your baby will settle more happily if whole process of going to sleep takes place in exactly the same way every evening. Try to impose the normal routine (even if you’re away from home) as your baby will not be quite ready to sleep in strange surroundings. Baby will easily get upset …
Read More »Of Roles And Responsibilities
To have a child is every parent’s delight. Then, somewhere along the way, there creeps in a feeling among parents that despite their nurture and care, their child has not “come up to expectations”. Here it becomes imperative for parents to introspect and identify areas of concern before jumping to conclusions regarding the behavioral pattern of the child. As parents …
Read More »Now Your Little Girl Wants To Date
You looked away for what seemed like a minute and your piggy tailed play school going baby has flowered into a young teenager, all gung ho about going out for an evening with a complete stranger! While dating might be a concept Indian families are slowly familiarising with, nothing short of hell breaks lose, when you realise that your daughter …
Read More »Middle Child Syndrome
Remember Stephanie Tanner from the hit SitCom “Full House”? Remember her several issues with “always being in between!” Well, that is a glimpse (a very tiny glimpse) of middle child syndrome for you. Without a doubt, in reality the syndrome can get much worse. So, how does a parent know that their little angel is suffering from a syndrome simply …
Read More »Medication During Lactation
The phone rang at 5 am on Sunday morning. Sleepily I picked it up thinking it would be an emergency call from the hospital. To my surprise it was my friend Seema from Singapore. “Geeta, I am pregnant! Can you believe it?” She exclaimed loudly. After 10 long years! Naturally she was overjoyed, as it was a precious pregnancy. “But …
Read More »Remember Names
For teachers, therapists, and concerned friends, it builds self-esteem in children when you so you care enough to remember not only their names, but the names of their pets, family members, places they told you about, other significant details about them. Familiarity with concrete names shows you were really listening and you really understood. For parents, it is important to …
Read More »Take Children To Special Place
Make visiting special places a part of your relationship with children. Take them to a place out side the regular or prescribed structure. Take them to a place you say is special to you so that the memory of it will be of a special place shared. When I tutored students, I would sometimes take a child to the nearby …
Read More »Make Encounters Appealing through Novelty
Introduce novelty in activity, in tools, in words, in tasks, in colors, and shapes. Anything that looks new and fun filled is apt to be attractive to children and motivate their interests. Whenever children feel their own inner attraction to something, they are motivated to know it, explore it, spend time with it, and value it. While self-motivation provides a …
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