Do you want to teach something to your children Then don’t tell them What to do OR How to do it OR Why do it OR Ways to do it……. Instead, ask them series of open-ended questions Lead them to a conclusion you are hoping them to get If you want them […]
Did your child receive doses of vitaminEQ ?
VITAMIN EQ BEFORE ACADEMIA IQ Did your child get a good dose of vitamin EQ (Emotional Intelligence) while working on their IQ? Isnt’ academic performance is all it takes to be successful and emotions will definitely fall into place once success happens? Shouldn’t we, as parents should be preparing him for future success, for living […]
Resolve your parenting challenges with your teens
I was struggling with my parenting You see, back when I embarked on my parenting journey, I was working from a parenting style that I had seen, heard, and experienced myself while growing up. So it was all about discipline, results, shoulds, have to’s and my child was my project, my canvas to the world. […]
P.A.U.S.E
IF LIFE HAVE A REMOTE CONTROL THEN THE ONLY BUTTON WE CAN PRESS IS PAUSE. PLAY IS ON DEFAULT. REPLAY AND FORWARD DOESN’T EXIST. Press P.A.U.S.E Besides the importance of Pause in our lives , the acronym of P.A.U.S.E became much more important in today’s time of uncertainty.I would love to share the understanding of […]
CONTEMPT -A POISON
If you feel better than other person in any relationship -be it parent child, marriage or friendship, all you are doing is projecting CONTEMPT. Criticism for long time clubbed with heavy intensity develops negative thoughts about other and leads to contempt. Ways we communicate with contempt, when • Treat with disrespect • mock them with […]
Uncomfortable feelings
What happens when we face uncomfortable feelings like sadness, anger, or dislike? What happens when we see our loved ones facing these uncomfortable feelings? What happens when we think that their uncomfortable feelings are so trivial? It is a common scenario for parents and all these things are intermingled in any simple incident of parenting […]
Does keeping information about your children sound a bit cold?
Do you “keep tabs” on each of your children? Does keeping information about your children sound a bit aloof? Is it about trust or giving a child a safe framework to navigate? When parents tell me that I want to trust my child and give him full control of his screen. And when the same […]
Do you remember the last meaningful one-to-one conversation ?
Let me ask you: Do you retrieve your child’ latest report card details? If yes, then how does it compare to the one before or was it you comparing with someone else’s report card? What was your child’s sentiments about the report card, what was his foremost concern? Remember the last meaningful one-to-one conversation you […]
What’s the worst thing that could happen?
We, parents, are a pro in visualization of the worst possible thing that could happen to our children and we do it with tons of worrying, anxiety, and fear attached to it. Almost every parent worries, to the extent of fear, about the future of their child and gets embroiled in negative visualization where a […]
How not to condition yourself with ” SHOULD & HAVE TO” ?
Have you ever felt the “SHOULD’S & HAVE TO” Syndrome? I should do it this way. I should always answer, right. I should be smart. I should not make a fool of myself by asking. You have to do it, that’s the only way. A large part of our critical self-talk, which emerges from this […]