Parenting Resources

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 …

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 …

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 …

Feeling kicked that your 20-day-old daughter smiled at you? Actually she did not. Her cheek muscles just happened to move for no reason and you happened to be in her line of vision. Don’t be disappointed, it will be this way till your daughter learns to control her movements. In the first two months of her life, her movements will …

Pregnancy hormones bring about changes to almost every part of your body, both externally and internally. An average uterus measures seven centimetres in length, five centimetres in width and is over two centimetres thick. At full term, it can measure as much as 38 centimetres in length, 25 centimetres in width and 20 centimetres from front to back. Its weight …

Burns affect more than what is visible. The heat penetrates into blood vessels below the skin, dilating them, thus making the plasma (the colourless part of the blood) escape. In a minor burn, the escaped plasma gets trapped in a blister. In a burn that removes the skin altogether, plasma bleeds from the raw area. Although only the colourless part …

By this stage in your pregnancy, you will have increased in bra size and have, hopefully, shopped wisely and had a maternity bras correctly fitted for your beautiful pregnancy shape. But if you haven’t – now is definitely the time! A properly fitted bra will not only make you feel better by offering extra support – relieving any chance of …

A lot of children become difficult at some time or the other. And often we hear doting parents say, “He’ll be all right once he’s older.” But, isn’t that untrue? Don’t we know adults who play equally difficult? Obviously, there is no set way to handle your difficult child. But, it might help if you: Know what is ‘normal’ behaviour …

Before a meeting with a child, prepare for it, be ready for it. Bring something to the encounter – an object, a thought, an experience – that shows you were thinking about the child beforehand. This achieves at least three positive self-esteem effects. First, the something you bring provides an object upon which you both can focus, a meeting place …