Can you remember the last time you stopped what you were doing to listen to your child? Have you noticed their eyes widening with excitement while recalling an interesting story from school? Now let us turn the tables. Does your child listen to your instructions with complete attention? How important is it to have good…
Major Parenting Styles
Are you raising your child the way you were raised? Or are you employing a different technique of bringing them up? Either way, the parenting style that you adopt determines their course of physical, mental, and emotional development. To establish a healthy parent-child relationship, realize that your child is not you. Irrespective of how unique…
Simple Techniques to Make Your Child Interested In Learning
We always want our children to be good students who fare well in examinations. Yet not all children are keen learners with the same excitement for studies as they have for other interests like sports. At the same time, any student can be encouraged to study better by developing the basic aptitude for learning and…
Don’t Raise An Obedient Child – Raise An Independent Thinker Instead!
Children are naturally inquisitive. They begin asking questions from the time they start talking – ‘Why is the sky blue?’, ‘Where do stars go in the morning?’, ‘Why should I go to bed early?’ And when they start painting, elephants will be blue, trees will be orange and flower green. But adults often shoo such…
Tips To Improve Your Child’s Appetite
Children in their growing years need sufficient intake of vitamins and minerals in adequate quantities. But picky eaters often come up with excuses to skip meals and tend to eat less. If you are a parent of one of them, here are some tips and tricks to make your child eat better. Breakfast is the…
Mind-Blowing Tips To Increase Concentration Power In Children
Does your child take an hour or more to finish his homework that should have been done in twenty minutes? Does he fidget a lot, telling you classroom stories and looking around, instead of focusing on the work? Don’t worry, this happens to most of us. Due to their natural exuberance and high energy levels,…
Good Habits Every Parent Must Teach Their Child
Habits are everyday activities that we do without consciously thinking about it. They are the basis of what constitutes a day and indicators of where we are headed in life. As they say, good habits start early. It is the responsibility of parents to ensure that good habits are inculcated in children at an early…
Quick and Easy Ways to Reduce Your Child’s Time on Digital Devices
Since the time the web has taken over our household, our children seem to be spending more time with “virtual assistants” than the people they live with. They have become practically inseparable that spending 2 to 8 hours every day staring at the screen has become the norm. Not surprisingly, we have witnessed an unprecedented…
5 Innovative and Practical Tips to Teach your Child to Read
Reading is a crucial skill in education – there are no two ways about it. The better a child can read, the better they will perform at school and throughout life. For those of you finding it a herculean task to teach your child to read, the following are some practical steps to make things…