My current mission in life is raising a happy teenager. Parenting teenagers with love and logic involves ensuring their mental as well as physical health, what with all the pressures they have to handle in their busy young lives. So for my parenting post at Parentous this week, I decided to…
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At our place, most days are happy days. No matter how the day goes, we manage to squeeze out the happy from it. This morning, like any Sunday, we woke up, remembered that the whole world is making a big deal of Father’s Day, and thought, hey, why not! We don’t…
“Encouragement or Praise – which is better?” is the title of my latest post on Parentous. I was scheduled to publish a post yesterday. I was sorting through ideas in my mind on May 26 when the phone rang. It was Vidur’s classmate calling to tell him that their 10th-grade exam…
Not that I need a special day to write a Mother’s Day tribute to Mom. I consider myself extremely fortunate that I had my Mother and Grandmother, two wonderfully wise women who believed in giving and not keeping score. “God could not be everywhere. So he made Mothers” is a quote…
It is Day 16 of the #AtoZChallenge and it is P for Parenting Perspectives. When I first realized I was expecting a baby, I was nervous about whether I would make a good mother. Like everyone else, I read books, explored parenting perspectives, tips and of course, received a lot of it…
Balancing the compliment criticism ratio is critical in life in all our relationships and with specific reference to parenting. As someone who grew up in a joint family, I always wondered what it would be like to have been a “normal” family with one Mother, one Father, and one me. As…
Parenting with love and logic really is the best way. In retrospect the word “parenting” translates to “fun” for me. I may or may not have said this a decade ago since our feelings about any role are influenced by the prevailing situation. I admit to being frustrated, nervous and all…