Parenting Resources

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 …

The phone rang at 5 am on Sunday morning. Sleepily I picked it up thinking it would be an emergency call from the hospital. To my surprise it was my friend Seema from Singapore. “Geeta, I am pregnant! Can you believe it?” She exclaimed loudly. After 10 long years! Naturally she was overjoyed, as it was a precious pregnancy. “But …

A disease, which has no formal treatment as such other than prevention through immunization, measles is most commonly seen in pre-school children, specially in the winter and spring ones. It initially appears like a bad cold that is getting worse. Contact the doctor if your child has a cough, a fever along with a rash. Its symptoms begin appearing only …

So you’re three months into pregnancy and it’s finally beginning to show. It’s time to step up those changes in your lifestyle that you began when you first came to know. Begin with the clothes. No more tight jeans and figure-hugging churidar kurtas but loose stuff that can accommodate your growing body and give it space to breathe. And no, …

For teachers, therapists, and concerned friends, it builds self-esteem in children when you so you care enough to remember not only their names, but the names of their pets, family members, places they told you about, other significant details about them. Familiarity with concrete names shows you were really listening and you really understood. For parents, it is important to …

Make visiting special places a part of your relationship with children. Take them to a place out side the regular or prescribed structure. Take them to a place you say is special to you so that the memory of it will be of a special place shared. When I tutored students, I would sometimes take a child to the nearby …