Discover your Child through Encouragement
Feb 25, 2014Sridhar RamanathanBlog, Growing up in India, Learning disabilities
I met Amrit Ramnath, then 11 years old, nearly three years ago when I had gone to visit his family in Chennai. During the course of our conversation, Amrit showed me some of his sketches and...
Strike Up a Conversation with a PWD without Feeling Awkward
Feb 24, 2014Shweta ChooramaniBlog, Daily Ponderings, Learning disabilities, Special needs
More often than not, parents get uncomfortable with queries raised by their kids on seeing Children With Special Needs (CWSN) or Persons With Disabilities (PWD). To brush away such questions and...
The Final Choice: Choosing your Best Fit College
Feb 19, 2014Prab SinghBlog, Education Abroad
With letters of acceptance rolling in over next month, it is time to return to the beginning and find the Best Fit. Well, many of you have already heard from some of the schools that you have applied...
My experiments with millets
Feb 18, 2014Sudha Kumar24x7 Parent, Blog, Health and Nutrition
Much is being written about how millets have somewhere gone missing from, and why we need to reintroduce them, into our diet. In fact, ParentEdge carried a really informative article ‘Discover the...
Coping with Cyber Bullying: What Every Parent Needs to Know
Feb 18, 2014Aparna Balasundaram24x7 Parent, Blog, Teen Parenting
When you and I were in school we might have experienced bullying, either personally or from a distance, in the classroom, the playground or recess time. For our children today, bullying has taken...
Nursery admissions: Trial time for parents
Feb 11, 2014Swati Nitin GuptaBlog, Diaries of the young parent, Primary School
Swati Nitin Gupta is a journalist with extensive experience in writing for newspapers, tabloids, magazines and online media in India as well as in the Middle East. She has written on a range of...
Effects of Aggressive Parental Discipline and Inspiring Cooperation without Punishment
Feb 10, 2014ParentEdge24x7 Parent, Blog
This is a guest post by Jasmine Pasricha Balsara, Child Psychotherapist. Aren’t parents supposed to punish their children ? Aren’t children supposed to feel shame and guilt if they...
Are we growing children with low frustration tolerance?
Feb 08, 2014Kritika SrinivasanBlog, Daily Ponderings, Diaries of the young parent
I recently read a blog post on a young mother who prepares to send her child to pre-school for the first time. Amongst some of the things she does, she also practises walking with the child to school...
