As much as possible, especially at the outset of a relationship with a child, find places, ideas, and people you share. Show how you are not separate from each other, but connected. When dealing with low-self-esteem children, go into their world first to find connections. Find places in their world where you are also at home or with which you …

Shivam is a normal 15 year old. Except that he prefers to sit at home rather than play cricket with friends. Interacts with those in the 30 plus age group at the expenses of his peer group, and started attending playschool even before he was two. The last piece of information would probably be meaningless were it not be accompanied …

When it comes to getting children admitted to formal schools, most parents take it very seriously. Rightly so, because the school in which the child will study for the next 14 years will play a very important role in defining the child’s personality and life-path. No wonder, we feel anxious about how our child will perform in the interview. Sometimes, …

Trusting children seems to be a significant factor in building their self-esteem. Children sense when you are testing them. A test of trust proves there is little or no trust. Rather be confident that mutual trusting, which in extended process, will grow naturally as your knowledge of each other grows. Trust-growth happens most naturally when you and the child are …

The bottle can also be a bond between the mother and the baby. The mother can hold the baby in her lap and the closeness can be as satisfying as it is while breast feeding. The trouble arises when the mother thinks that since she is not breast feeding the baby someone else can do the bottle feeding as well. …

It was two-and-a-half months since the baby was born. I had not stepped out of home after childbirth. That was not because I was ill or was inept at handling the new-found responsibility of parenting. It was because I could not imagine feeding in public, let alone do it. I often wondered how women managed to do it in buses, …

There can be vast differences between adoptive parents and adoptees. Adopted children may differ in looks – skin, eye and hair color, have unique features, personalities and temperaments and built. They may come from a different country and have different sexual preferences when they grow up. They may have special health or mental problems or genetic diseases than their parents. …

The creativity children are more sociable, more warm-hearted and anxious. Three characteristics of personality shows the difference between the highly creative children from less creative but equally intelligent children.
The highly creative have a reputation for having wild and silly ideas.
Their work is characterized by production of ideas, “outside this world”. “Humour, playfulness, lack of rigidity and realization” characterize …

In the increasingly complex social scenario of today, single parenting is a situation which can be seen in growing proportions. Reasons can range from death; divorce; separation by choice or by circumstances. Even though it is a monumental task to come to terms with the fact that one is now single, the parent must accept that now he or she …

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 …