There can be vast differences between adoptive parents and adoptees. Adopted children may differ in looks – skin, eye and hair color, have unique features, personalities and temperaments and built. They may come from a different country and have different sexual preferences when they grow up. They may have special health or mental problems or genetic diseases than their parents. …

The creativity children are more sociable, more warm-hearted and anxious. Three characteristics of personality shows the difference between the highly creative children from less creative but equally intelligent children.
The highly creative have a reputation for having wild and silly ideas.
Their work is characterized by production of ideas, “outside this world”. “Humour, playfulness, lack of rigidity and realization” characterize …

In the increasingly complex social scenario of today, single parenting is a situation which can be seen in growing proportions. Reasons can range from death; divorce; separation by choice or by circumstances. Even though it is a monumental task to come to terms with the fact that one is now single, the parent must accept that now he or she …

I was planning to stop feeding when my son started cutting his teeth. Mainly because I used to have nightmares of running frantically to a doctor to stitch a bitten nipple back into place. Or even resigning myself to a nipple-less existence for the rest of my life. Until it happened. It was not as bad as I had imagined …

Breastfeeding improves brain development in infants, according to a new study. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better development than formula alone, the study found. Researchers from Brown University used specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at the brain growth in a sample of children under the age of …

Looking at the world today, we feel horrified and disheartened to see the kind of violent acts being committed by man against mankind. We strongly believe in the saying, “As you sow, so shall you reap”. It means that whatever we do today we shall have to answer for it tomorrow. We fail if we do not educate our children …

Before a meeting with a child, prepare for it, be ready for it. Bring something to the encounter – an object, a thought, an experience – that shows you were thinking about the child beforehand. This achieves at least three positive self-esteem effects. First, the something you bring provides an object upon which you both can focus, a meeting place …

Emotionally, children are easily threatened by anyone bigger, older, or more confident than they are. Not yet possessing the well-developed defenses adults usually have, children’s sense of self is still fragile, vulnerable, and easily knocked down. For example, children often don’t understand the significant difference chronological age can make in their performance. Younger children may feel stupid because their older …

– Just when all of your kids have moved out and you and your spouse are still in your ‘honeymoon’ period enjoying privacy that had been sacrificed for years, one of your adult children rebound back to home for some reason such as financial problem or an emotional struggle, where they need a refuge and their parents for love and …

There was a heated argument between eight-year-old Rahul and his mother on what he ought to wear for her friend’s birthday party. She wanted him to wear a shirt with a jacket, but Rahul was adamant about wearing his favourite T-shirt. Ameya, a nine-year-old, faces a similar problem with his dad. His father wishes to sit with him and help …