Children calling elders by their first names
Some people are shocked when they hear children in some households call elders by their first names. In most homes, the parents are often...
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Sarita Talwai
- Sep 16
- 2 min
Comparisons Kill
Odious. Parents wield many weapons against their children. Sharp laced comments, insidious barbs, emotional blackmail or the deadly...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Should parents discuss the negative aspects of their children with others?
Recently, while sitting in a cafe sipping coffee, could not help but overhear four mothers discussing their children. Three of the...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jul 28
- 2 min
Do children need to be ‘productive’ all the time?
“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...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 27
- 3 min
Protecting people we love all the time or teaching them to protect themselves?
“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,”...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 19
- 2 min
Rote learning is not child abuse
Rote learning is getting a lot of bad press these days. Many schools and institutions advertise, ‘No rote learning’ without really...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 18
- 4 min
Daily arguments over fans/lights switched on in empty rooms
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...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- May 17
- 2 min
Board Games - Bonding Better with Family Members
There is a saying, Families that eat together stay together. In many families, although sadly on the decline, eating together one time a...
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Sarita Talwai
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Passionate Detachment
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...
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Sarita Talwai
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Curiosity does not kill
The one gift every parent should bequeath to her child is the unconditional freedom to be curious. The world is full of wonderful things...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 12
- 2 min
The Bookworm Turns.
I remember playing ‘ library- library ‘ with my kids years ago. An underused room was converted into a reading room cum library. Two mats...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 7
- 2 min
To survive, you must tell stories...
Carrying Tales. Life is really just stories strung together. If we stop and think for a moment, the most mundane of situations have the...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 2
- 2 min
Benign Negligence.
Laid Back parenting style Our parents stumbled into parenthood and then bumbled their way through it. For the most part, they left us to...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
- Jan 2
- 2 min
WHY IS MY CHILD Doing Such WILD THINGS? Have I Failed As A Parent?
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...
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Sarita Talwai
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Fluent in silence.
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....
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