So long, and thanks for the opportunity…
Jul 11, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
This much I now know – parenting is highly personal. There have been so many things being a parent has taught me, these last (nearly) 15 years, but one thing stands out – what’s...
Pet thoughts…
Jun 11, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
If I’m ever granted three wishes, one of them will surely be “I want a pet”. The pet could be anything – a dog, a cat or an ant eater. The last is recency effect; I just read...
How do you teach your child to be sensitive to other people’s woes?
Apr 12, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
From the time of Buddha, it’s a big parental dilemma… do you expose your child to the “real” world? Or do you – because you can – raise your child in a happy...
Where one family tries to teach their child finances…
Mar 14, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
A few weeks ago, we decided that the daughter needs to learn about money. Her innocence in money matters was seriously worrying. She had no grasp of ground realities; that what we spent on a fancy...
Negotiating the mine-field that is body image.
Feb 13, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
So your daughter moves on from primary to secondary school; the girls get self-conscious; and your daughter – who is, by nature very slim – decides that she needs to lose still more weight. Of...
To push or not to push.
Jan 12, 2013Aparna Karthikeyan
Parenting is all about pushing; it begins with labour, and after that, there’s really no getting away from it. Initially, it’s all about the little things – push in one more...
How do you choose books for a teenager?
Dec 12, 2012Aparna Karthikeyan
If you thought it’s a wrench to choose clothes for a teenager, just wait till they’re bored of everything in your bookshelf. The call for new books should actually set off alarm bells;...
Parenting Lessons
Nov 12, 2012Aparna Karthikeyan
‘Why don’t you come for a parenting class?’ a friend – let’s call her ‘R’ – asked me. ‘Parenting class? But why?’, I asked her, shocked. In...
