What should the role of education be?
Jun 30, 2014Asawari Joshi SalwanBlog, Learning
The understanding of Education, as we all know it, has not been questioned for generations now. We modify our textbooks to bring knowledge content up to date. We innovate on new subjects, train our...
Protecting your Child’s Health during the Monsoons
Jun 26, 2014Krishna Mahathi24x7 Parent, Blog, Diaries of the young parent, Health and Nutrition
Monsoon Musings Double standards do not agitate me anymore. I have come to believe that most of us have three sets of standards: one that we set for ourselves and rationalise if we don’t attain,...
What would your 10 year old son do?
Jun 25, 2014Sridhar RamanathanBlog, Learning
My friend and I were talking about a career decision he would have to make soon. He had an excellent offer to work abroad. It was really tempting. He was keen. His wife was in two minds. His parents...
Is passion over-rated?
Jun 22, 2014Sudha Kumar24x7 Parent, Blog, Education and Career, Teen Parenting
“Got the job, so that’s great news. I think I’m going to have to work very hard but that’s probably a good thing ” My husband and I got this short email from our 21+ year old...
6 Awesome Parenting Resources Found Online
Jun 20, 2014ParentEdge24x7 Parent, Blog
This blog post has been reposted, with permission, from Bril’s blog (http://brilindia.com/blog/). Good parenting is all about trial and error. Nobody is born with all the super mom or super dad...
Bollywood, My Son and I
Jun 18, 2014Ramya SrinivasanBlog, Daily Ponderings
I remember growing up enjoying and laughing through movies like Golmaal, Amar Akbar Anthony and Khushboo. And, I remember my parents rationing my TV time during exams. I remember buying tapes of and...
My experience as Student Editor at ParentEdge
Jun 13, 2014ParentEdgeBlog, Magazine
This blog post has been contributed by Tulika Misra, Student Editor of Issue 12 (May-June 2013) of ParentEdge. My experience with ParentEdge in February 2013 was entirely accidental but one of the...
How to get a Fussy Eater to Eat Healthy Food
Jun 12, 2014Swati Nitin GuptaBlog, Health and Nutrition
Transforming your fussy eater toddler into someone who loves food can be a mammoth task if you have a child like mine who doesn’t even want to taste anything new, let alone eat it. But I...
Understanding the role of fibre
Jun 10, 2014Meera SrinivasanBlog, Health and Nutrition
Definitely children in urban India are undergoing a worrying “nutrition transition”. There is clear evidence to show that their diets have become higher in fat and refined processed food...
Choosing to Give Birth to a Child with Special Needs
Jun 09, 2014ParentEdgeBlog, Special needs
This blog post has been contributed by Deepa Garwa. A teacher by profession and a writer by choice, Deepa Garwa is an opinionated blogger, a self advocate on disabilities and a parenting enthusiast....
