Many parents get worried if their child is not speaking by one and a half years and because the neighbour’s kid was speaking at that age. It is important to recall by which time the baby attained the other milestones like sitting, crawling, standing, playing with toys, etc. If all these have been achieved at the right time, there is …

Post Adoption Depression Syndrome or PAD is common in many adoptive couples. There can be several reasons behind this depression that are not all baseless or temporary but that does not mean that adoptive parents have taken a wrong decision about going through an adoption. Even biological parents face a similar phase as post partum depression. These feelings are not …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Fathers with smaller testes are more involved in child care, and their brains are also more responsive when looking at photos of their own children, according to research published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Evolutionary biologists have long observed a trade-off in male primates between mating efforts to produce more offspring and the time …

You can serve up a cold bottle to your child it will not harm your baby in any way. But if you are serving warm milk to your baby test the temperature of the milk or expressed breast milk by squirting a drop or two onto your wrist; if it feels comfortably warm, it’s right for your baby. Few Tips …