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Growth and development cannot be forced as it takes time and patience. Children need to be nurtured like plants and allowed to blossom naturally. The role of parents is to help a child to help himself, as growing up is a tricky business. Disciplining is helping a child to behave in a socially approved manner. It involves good manners and acceptable behavior. Before trying to change a child’s behavior, it is a good idea to examine one’s own self. Many parents find it very difficult to keep their own attitudes, likes and dislikes, from influencing the manner in which they handle behavior in children. There may be times when a child will make parents very angry. Parents do a lot of harm to the child when they say things that they do not mean in the heat of the moment which may have a damaging effect on the child. Each child has a different set of needs. The hereditary makeup and the rate of maturation differ from that of another child who is of the same age. What may seem to be su...

In India, exams create a different environment altogether. From parents to students, everyone is under deep stress and if we go in-depth, the reason is competition and comparison. While parents are stressed about their societal status, innocent kids are stressed to see their parents going through the phase. Apart from this, the peer pressure and school pressure makes the situation worse. Fear usually leads to stress, thus developing anxiety and depression in students. This ultimately results in performing poorly in exams. Some possible reasons for exam fear may be: Ø   High expectations of parents Ø   Parents imposing their ambitions on them Ø   Constant comparison with other kids can be their older sibling Ø   Insulting remarks from teachers Ø   Irregular coverage of the entire syllabus Ø   Reading without understanding the topic Ø   Unable to recollect the material Ø   Not making revision notes Ø   Negative thinki...

Play is any activity that the person engages in for the enjoyment it gives. Any activity could be a play when it is voluntary and gives pleasure and the same activity is work when one has to do it out of compulsion. The play has a great influence on the development of a child. Play provides the brain building blocks that will set them up for the rest of their life. Through play, children gather information about the world, master the use of their bodies, learn social skills and pick up every little detail to do with fitting into the culture that surrounds them. Play helps in the physical, intellectual and social-emotional development of all ages. So, we as adults should understand the importance of play in a child’s life. Sometimes the adults get too much involved in the child’s play that they start instructing the child at every step and the play changes to work. Today, let us know some tips on the role of the adult’s in children’s play: ·       ...

“My son does not eat proper lunch/dinner. He wants to eat junk food.” “My daughter is not hungry at meal times. She only eats roti with jam and curd rice.” “My son is not eating anything. See how thin he is as compared to last year.” Very often I used to come across such statements from parents complaining about their child’s food habits when I was teaching in pre primary section. Today, let us talk about some possible causes and how can we prevent and handle them. Causes: ·          Many children become choosy about food during preschool years, and due to height gain, they look thinner than before. ·          Children are not offered a variety of food with various tastes up to 2 years and suddenly when in preschool they are expected to eat everything. ·          Lot of junk food like biscuits, chocolates, ice-creams, chips etc is introduced to the ch...