Parenting Simplified – Emotionally & Mentally Happy Parents and Kids
Everyone would have heard about Indra Nooyi in one form or the other. She is one of the well-known and most admired CEOs of the world. So, when her memoir was released recently, I grabbed that book immediately for my next read. I finished reading it last weekend and was in a big fix as …
With the onset of the fall season everywhere in the world the nature will start changing its colors and prepare itself for the forthcoming festival season across countries and cultures. In India, October is the busy festival season, with both Navratri/Dussehra and Diwali coming in sequence. This is the time of the year, most of …
In the earlier days, parenting tasks were just not limited to parents. Most of the time, the moms are not even aware when their kids grew up, as the kids grew up along with other cousins and siblings. Elder kids in the family took care of the younger ones. Elder kids are not the real …
Navratri Parenting Pebbles from Navadurgas is a three-part blog series that captures the ancient parenting wisdom shared by Navadurgas through their different incarnations. Each incarnation of Maa Durga that’s worshipped during the Navratri has a hidden meaning and purpose. Once we try to understand that hidden purpose and meaning, we would be amazed at how …
This blog post, “Navratri Parenting Pebbles” is a three-part series of blog posts that talk about the various parenting lessons the different incarnations of Maa Durga bring to the forefront during these Navratri celebrations. All the festivals in Ancient India have some significance and hidden meanings. They are not about just celebrations and feasts. Each …
The stress is taking over everyone’s life. Even toddlers are undergoing a lot of stress these days. A happy childhood is becoming a myth due to the outside competitive world, peer pressure, parental pressure, and of course due to the continuous use of gadgets. So during these uncertain times, it’s always beneficial to turn towards arts. …
Children are heading to school in a couple of months/weeks across the world after almost 1.5 years. All over the world, child psychologists as well different organizations which are dealing with children are advising that unless the schools are opened up shortly, we would be losing an entire generation of kids to online addiction. That’s …
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Most parents think that there is no need for teaching critical thinking skills to kids as they would learn them at the school itself. But actually, our current education system is not conducive enough to accommodate questioners or thinkers out of the box. I am sorry to tell you this …
The Independence day fever has not yet subsided in my house. My kid is still relishing the stories about the Indian Freedom struggle and History. So we keep pouring over our history books and digging deeper to understand what freedom meant to our ancestors and what they thought were their responsibilities to their country, parents, …
As a parent, I used to always struggle to understand the right balance of activities for my child. I used to trust my instincts and my child’s interests in scheduling different after-school classes or activities for him. But during the initial days of the pandemic and the series of lockdowns, as all of us are …