When the dust settles after the exams, your kids will surely have earned themselves a break. They will deserve some fun and make sure that they do get it. But fun is not something that can only be got through gadgets.
Category: Childcare
Raising Teenagers – Let’s Play with Kites!
Teenage – This phase is tricky not just for the individuals who go through the personal transition, but it is equally tricky for their parents.
Happy Parents, Happy Children!
The most important ingredient for a happy life is love. It is true that there is no parent who does not love their kids. But what is important here is to express your love to your children. “I love them a lot but don’t tend to show it much. I guess they realise that”, is not the sort of thing that you should be taking refuge in.
How Can We Improve Our Family Relationships?
our families hold a profound influence over what we are and today the discussions about the family assume greater significance. Why is that so? Well, it is precisely because family relationships have never been more threatened than they are today.
What are we actually eating?
How many of us have the habit of reading food labels? Let’s try a better question. How many of us have gone through a food label from the start to the end at least once? These labels are all around us. Yet for ages, it appears that we have been ignoring these mini baskets of…
Kids spending too much time online?
That is a pretty straightforward question, isn’t it? So how much time should we ideally spend online? What about 6 hours per day? Is that too much? Ok then let’s cut down. What about an hour a day? Well, that seems to be too little. Ah! so then the answer must lay somewhere in between,…
Healthy eating from young
‘Eat healthy from young’, well that’s quite easy to say, isn’t it? But try to implement it with your tiny tots and voila! We arrive at one of the biggest parenting challenges. Before we go further, let’s just take a sneak peek into the causes of this challenge. The truth is that many parents today…
5 ways to deal with your kid’s homework challenge
‘HOMEWORK’… This is a word that haunts almost every parent. A kid’s homework turns into a source of immense anxiety for parents. But all this can be easily avoided. Let’s see how it is done in 5 easy steps. Understanding your child’s needs Your child is an individual with her own tastes and skills. For…
What are your kids reading now?
Many parents today will not be able to answer this question. With our hectic schedules, we hardly get any time to spend with our children. But are we to be faulted for this? Does it matter much what our children are reading? Research points out that children start developing habits right from the age of…
Screening Our Technology Use
Screen time is an easy demon to hate. As digital devices become more common in our children’s lives, we need to be careful about how we approach and use this double-edge sword. All screen time cannot be treated the same
