Tag: parenting
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The Power of Repair: Why It’s Never Too Late to Reconnect with Your Child
If you’re a parent, chances are you’ve had at least one moment where you’ve lost your temper — maybe even more than one. The kind of moment where you say something you regret, where the anger spills out before you can pull it back in. The guilt that follows can be crushing. You tell yourself,…
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The Beautiful Trouble of Raising a Human
Parenting is not a profession, a project, or a plan—it’s a wild, messy, magical relationship. From the moment a child is born, a parent is thrown into a lifetime of balancing joy and frustration, love and fatigue, laughter and tears. It is both the hardest and most rewarding journey a person can embark on. And…
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Teaching a teenager to share
Caring and sharing are both important values that contribute to healthy relationships and a sense of community. They complement each other, and practicing both can help us to build stronger connections with others. Caring refers to a feeling of concern, empathy, and compassion towards others. When we care about someone, we want them to be…
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How parents can prioritize their time
As parents, we want to take up the responsibility of raising our children entirely. But many of us think this means we try to do everything we can to contribute to parenting. Juggling between work and home, if not done right, can get stressful and ultimately affect both work and home. Being hard-pressed for time…
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Tracking Moral Development of Children
Moral development is the process through which children develop proper attitudes and behaviours toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws. All of us want our children to grow up to be morally strong citizens of society. But how do we know how they are developing, where they stand…
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Outgrowing the Parenting Instinct
One of human life’s greatest joys is to become a parent. The sheer happiness of holding your child first time in your hand is magical and indescribable. Anyone who has experienced this will vouch for me on this. Even the mere sight of watching a parent with a child brings so many emotions. A parent…
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Parenting on the Spiritual Path
Becoming a parent is one of the most rewarding experiences that life can offer and also one of the most fulfilling ones. I consider myself fortunate to be a father to a beautiful daughter for the last 11 years and I have savoured every moment of it. On my blog, I share my parenting journey…
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Is Meat right for Children?
In this post, I express my stand on the topic based on my own experience. My intention here is not to offend meat eaters and meat lovers. Meat is a dietary choice and something that each of us has to reason to ourselves about. Many children are raised consuming meat- parents encourage and serve meat…
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Everything You Believe will be Put to Test
There comes a day when everything you believe and took pride in being will be put on trial, questioned, challenged and put to test. You will be asked to narrate the story of your life and your choices, decisions and responses to situations will be judged. Your claim over your achievements will be challenged. Your…
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Non-violent Ways of Disciplining Children
This post can be treated as a continuation of two previous posts- one on violent discipline and another on rights of children. In this post, I wish to share solutions as we have already discussed the problem enough. I understand that most of the time parents resort to violent discipline tactics simply out of frustration…
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Knowing Children’s Rights
As grownups, adults I am sure most of us are aware of our rights- how we like to be treated, what our basic needs are while operating as individuals in a society. We have been educated enough on the topic by social awareness campaigns and through school education as well. But do we know what…
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It is Wrong to Hit Children. Period.
One of the biggest evils plaguing the lives of the children of the world today is violent discipline practices. Spanking, whooping, beating- it all means hitting, a big, powerful person hitting a smaller, less powerful person. It also goes by the word corporal punishment. In a majority of countries, more than 2 in 3 children…
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Parenting, Religion and Atheism
All of us have experienced and seen the security and comfort a child derives while being in the company of its parents. We know the discomfort a child finds in not seeing its parents around. I believe this longing for security and warmth is something we continue to carry with us as we grow into…
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Task 4: Five point plan to improve health and fitness without disturbing other routines
My small steps to better health and fitness
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Should we set rules or teach values to help build character?
As parents, we all expect our children to develop a good character and virtues so that they can grow to become responsible adults and good citizens. While our expectations are clear, what doesn’t seem so clear is the effective method to do it. Most of us set rules for steering our children in the right…
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To Parent is to…
It’s so much more than a word.
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Task 2: Setting the routine
‘The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.’ – Mike Murdock My next job is to understand and set a daily routine. I think a good sleep of 8 hours is sacrosanct if I have to have the health. And energy to perform well during the day. So the sleep has to…
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Task 1: Drawing up the support system
The first step is to setup the support system.
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The Journey Begins
Like many parents, I didn’t plan to start a blog on parenting. Until the responsibility of single-handedly parenting Aanya landed on my shoulders. For a few months I had to take up the role of both parents for our daughter while my wife would be away. I am married for 9 years now and have…
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