The questions we ask people when we meet them show what we give importance to in their lives. What do we value in other people’s lives?...

Some people are shocked when they hear children in some households call elders by their first names. In most homes, the parents are often...

Odious. Parents wield many weapons against their children. Sharp laced comments, insidious barbs, emotional blackmail or the deadly...

Recently, while sitting in a cafe sipping coffee, could not help but overhear four mothers discussing their children. Three of the...

“Whenever I watch Japanese Anime which I love, my mom says, I am wasting my time. She says, I should watch National Geographic and I...

“I don’t want to take cash, can you transfer the money online to my account?” I asked a friend recently. “I will ask my dad to do it,”...

Rote learning is getting a lot of bad press these days. Many schools and institutions advertise, ‘No rote learning’ without really...

Disproportionate responses to people’s behaviour around us cause a lot of unpleasantness. When we are on the other side don’t we feel for...

There is a saying, Families that eat together stay together. In many families, although sadly on the decline, eating together one time a...

Every morning at about 9.30, two toddlers march briskly towards the sand pit in the play area opposite my flat. Armed with spade and...

The one gift every parent should bequeath to her child is the unconditional freedom to be curious. The world is full of wonderful things...

I remember playing ‘ library- library ‘ with my kids years ago. An underused room was converted into a reading room cum library. Two mats...

Carrying Tales. Life is really just stories strung together. If we stop and think for a moment, the most mundane of situations have the...

Laid Back parenting style Our parents stumbled into parenthood and then bumbled their way through it. For the most part, they left us to...

I was talking to the mother of a teenage girl and the mother was very distraught that her daughter was doing things neither taught at...

We want our kids to succeed. At school. In the music room. On the playing field. On the dance floor. They should be adept in languages....