You looked away for what seemed like a minute and your piggy tailed play school going baby has flowered into a young teenager, all gung ho about going out for an evening with a complete stranger! While dating might be a concept Indian families are slowly familiarising with, nothing short of hell breaks lose, when you realise that your daughter …

The most likely reason for milk drying up is the inhibition of the ejection reflex (the mechanism by which milk is ejected from the breast). This reduces the production of milk and gradually stops it completely. Often, the drying up has psychological reasons behind it – when people ask the mother whether her milk has dried up or is drying …

When relating to children, especially when they feel threatened, let them know they do not have to prove themselves to you. Let them know there are no strings attacked to what you do or to what you ask them to do. I took Tommy, one of my tutoring students, to the library and I let him take out a book, …

The heroine runs out of the room with her hand on her mouth. Her parents look thunderstruck. And then it hits them. Their daughter is pregnant. Thanks to Hindi movies, few aspects of pregnancy are as well known as morning sickness. The term morning sickness is actually a misnomer since it can strike at any time and last all day. …

The term ‘siblings’ refer to brothers and sisters. Parents, who have their biological child and want to adopt a second child, need to first prepare their own child for adoption much in advance. It is very important to prepare the older child for the arrival of a new child, in order to fight feelings of jealousy, sibling rivalry and loneliness. …

Taking Care of New Born – The first glimpse of the baby is very exciting time for every parent. If it is your first baby you may not be quiet prepared for what a newborn actually look like. Many mothers like to bring up the child not according to what they are but what they expected him to be. Thus, …

Rima was expecting and was advised bed rest as she had a miscarriage earlier. One night she woke up with stomach cramps in the seventh week of pregnancy and began bleeding. It was happening again despite all that rest. An Abortion Is Caused By Malformation Many spontaneous early abortions are caused by defective development of the fertilised ovum. This is …

Most minor mishaps do not require any medical attention at all. The human body has its own way of dealing with them. In fact, often, administration of first aid by an over-enthusiastic elder can hamper the natural process of healing. For example, antiseptic creams often delay wound-healing while doing little to prevent unlikely infection. Sticking plaster can keep a cut …

Remember Stephanie Tanner from the hit SitCom “Full House”? Remember her several issues with “always being in between!” Well, that is a glimpse (a very tiny glimpse) of middle child syndrome for you. Without a doubt, in reality the syndrome can get much worse. So, how does a parent know that their little angel is suffering from a syndrome simply …

Toxic metal mercury, which is not allowed to be used in cosmetics in India, is found in 44 per cent of the fairness creams in India, a study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found. It also found chromium and nickel in around fifty per cent of the lipstick samples it tested. The CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Lab …