Injuries and deaths due to beatings at school, suicides committed by students when they receive punishment at the hands of their teachers – these news have lost their shock value, they seem to occur every other day. A recent case was that of Rouvanjit Rawla of the prestigious La Martiniere School in Kolkata, [...]
Family honour or Child’s Happiness?
June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Reading reports of honour killings in the papers, I can’t help wondering if we are living in the medieval ages. Killing your own children for the supposed dishonour brought upon the family by marrying outside the caste is not just despicable, it is downright barbaric. If these shameful acts were performed by illiterate [...]
Anguish of a Girl Child
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Ashtaputravathi Bhava” (May you be blessed with 8 sons) is an old Hindu ‘blessing’. What does this kind of sexist benediction or rather a curse, mean for a little girl in India? In many Indian villages, the girl child is not wanted at all. They would rather she not live and female infanticide [...]
Kids or Super kids?
May 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Television abounds in programmes with children – dance shows, music shows and even serials with children as protagonists. Watch a children’s reality dance show. The chances are that instead of impressing, one will feel disgusted with the adult expressions and obscene dance steps of the little children in the course of the show. When [...]
Children adoption: Some cautions, some facts
May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bearing a child is considered to be the very purpose of life, especially by the orthodox and those with a traditional bent of mind. A childless couple performs endless poojas, goes through various treatments, for that bundle of joy which has not yet arrived. They are ready to go to any extent, shell out [...]
Values : The best legacy for your child
May 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A child is the apple of a parent’s eye. For the parent, nothing is good enough for the child. He must have the best clothes, the best education, the best of everything. In the process of providing all this, the child gets pampered. And if both parents go out to work, there will be [...]
Be the best friend of your Child
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Only a good parent can become a best friend their child. Are you a good parent? Most of the parents say yes. But it is not very easy to get a friendship with their child. The traditional parenting concept is utterly changed now. Parent- child relationship now became more open and friendly. This is [...]
Parenting: Develop your child early
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Every child has different qualities and you can never compare your child with others on one constraint. Parents should understand this fact and start looking for qualities which their children have instead of which they don’t. Every child is blessed and has some hidden qualities. Not everybody can excel at mathematics, singing or for [...]
How can I become a good parent?
December 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This is the question asked by most of the parents as they meet many difficulties in parenting. The moment at which a person became a father/mother is very exciting. After that they are being given a serious responsibility of making their child a good citizen. Parents have great impact on child’s life especially at [...]
Discipline or Punishment
November 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Many parents do not recognize the harmful effects of physical and verbal punishment. They don’t know that yelling, slapping, hitting, and spanking teach violence, destroy self-esteem, create anger, interfere with learning, and damage the relationship between parent and child. Discipline & Punishment are used interchangeably; punishment and discipline do not have the same meaning [...]
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