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Here are some important questions for you. What time do you go to bed? What time does your child have dinner? What time does your child go to bed? How many hours of sleep does your child get at a stretch? What are your child’s

Stories are an integral part of a child’s life (in fact everyone’s life- child or adult). We learn through stories, we think through them, we live directly or vicariously through them, we think through them, we understand things and people

One of the important aspects of integrity is teaching to keep the deals that are made. This ability comes in handy in adulthood in relationships, workplaces as well as parenting. The common assumptions upon which we normally act are: Children don’t understand

“You didn’t say hi to me, now I am upset!” “You finish your food then I’ll be happy.” “Won’t you give me a hug? I’m feeling sad now!” “When you don’t listen to me, it makes me angry!” We hear these dialogues commonly being

Imagine a game where one person has many needs, continuously coming up but the person cannot speak or move or do much. The only things the person can do are perhaps squirm, move the arms and legs (that too with

No one can give anyone a template of good parenting done right. The demands of parenting are bound by many contexts like cultural, social, economic, gender, time period, support available, relationship of parents, transgenerational patterns, parents’ childhood experiences and so

How many of us have many memories of the first 3-4 years of our life? Even if we have some specific memories, we don’t have many. Naturally it is easy for us to believe that children don’t remember much of

What is a home for you? How does it feel ‘at home’? How do you think you want to feel ‘at home’? It can be many specific things but for most people, feeling ‘at home’ means they want to feel

Have you lied to your child? Perhaps your child wanted to watch a video on your phone and you told your child that your phone was not with you or the bird took it away? Perhaps your child wanted to switch on

“Don’t touch that, the shopkeeper will scold you.” “Don’t do that, that aunty will get mad.” “You drew on the wall, now I am going to tell the watchman uncle that you did this. He will scold you then.” Such dialogues are common