“Parents Know Best”. Or do they? This has been a dilemma for most children and now this question has become a hotly debated topic in psychology. It is true that as children we might not able to distinguish between what is wrong or right for us and it is here that our parents with all their experience and better ability …

Children need to be protected from over-exposure to television. Watching too much TV is detrimental not just to the physical health of your child but adversely affects his mental well-being too. Children who watch TV from a very young age and that too for long intervals at a stretch often suffer from weak eyesight and attention disorders. Spending a lot …

Breastfed kids are smarter, according to a Harvard University study that found the longer babies are nursed, the greater their intelligence. The research, which followed more than 1,000 women and their babies, found that each additional month a child was breastfed resulted in better language skills at 3 years old and intelligence at age 7, compared with babies not breastfed. …

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 …

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 …

When food or any other foreign body goes into the lungs instead of the stomach, your child will try to eject it out with a lot of sputtering or coughing. It is nature way of removing alien bodies from the lungs and getting it back to the throat. As long as the child keeps coughing and is not turning blue …

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 …

Seeing the atmosphere today, may be it is time we asked ourselves a few questions. Are we linking our children too much with our status in society? Are many of us inadvertently connecting our children’s performance to our prestige in other people’s eyes? So many of us drive both our children and ourselves wild with anxiety about admission in a …

There is no one who does not yearns for the return of the carefree days of childhood – when worries and boundaries that concern adults had no meaning for us. And yet there are times when we forget this and expect our children to behave like adults. Remember your childhood and chances are that the first feeling you will remember …

Every mother should have some basic knowledge of the right way of cooking food so that the food value is preserved. Cooking involves many processes like boiling, steaming, frying, roasting, or baking. Boiling and steaming result in comparatively greater loss of nutrients, particularly when the water is thrown away as in the case of rice or vegetables. If root vegetables …