For a long time, I thought my son was fine before exams because he never once said the word “scared.” He didn’t cry, he didn’t refuse to go, he didn’t complain about the syllabus. It took me much longer than I’d like to admit to notice that his silence itself was the anxiety, not the …
There’s a moment every parent knows well: the book is open, the pen is in hand, and yet nothing happens for the next ten minutes. That was our reality for a long time, even after my son had genuinely started enjoying his subjects. In my last post, I wrote about how cricket stats helped him …
पिछले हफ्ते मेरे 7 साल के बेटे ने तीसरी बार नया टॉय मांगा — और तीसरी बार मैंने “हां” बोल दिया। रात को जब उसकी अलमारी साफ कर रही थी, देखा कि आधे टॉयज़ तो उसने खोल कर देखे भी नहीं थे। उसी रात खुद से सवाल पूछा — क्या मेरा बेटा जानता है कि …
If you’re searching for how to make child interested in studies, I want to tell you something first — I’ve been exactly where you are. My son was nine years old, bright, endlessly curious about the world, and yet the moment his school books came out, that curiosity simply vanished. Every evening turned into a …
Last week, Aryan was doing his homework and, without asking me, asked the AI helper on his school iPad, “Why do we celebrate Diwali?” I was glad he got a quick answer — but for a second, my heart skipped a beat too. Was the answer even correct? What else could he have clicked on …
A few weeks ago, I came across a study that stopped me mid-scroll — it looked at how physical discipline at home links to bullying behaviour in children, and the findings weren’t something I could just read and move on from. As a mom who has spent a lot of time lately thinking about how …
My son is 7 now, and just the other day, a kid at the park told him, “your haircut looks weird.” I braced myself for the usual reaction — a hurt face, maybe tears, maybe him coming to hide behind me. Instead, he just shrugged and said, “That’s okay, I like it.” And walked right …
Every mom reaches this moment eventually — the toy cupboard is overflowing, the answer to “can I have this?” is almost always yes, and somewhere along the way you start wondering if your child even notices how much he has. That’s exactly where I found myself with my son, and it’s what sent me looking …
Last week I asked my son to keep his shoes by the door — for the fourth time in ten minutes. By the third “beta, please,” my voice had already climbed an octave. When I finally snapped, he looked at me with those wide eyes and went quiet. And in that silence, I asked myself …
Last month my son, who’s about to turn 7, asked me for ₹200 to buy a toy car — and then got genuinely confused when I said we didn’t have that exact amount in cash lying around. That one conversation turned into a week of me fumbling through explanations of what money actually is, why …
