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 …
I said “we can’t afford that” to my son so many times before I actually stopped and thought about what it was teaching him. Turns out, a child’s money mindset isn’t built in some finance class years down the line — it’s built from us, from the everyday lines we say without thinking twice. If …
When I think about what I truly want for my son — beyond good grades and a decent career — it always comes back to one thing: I want him to be okay inside. That’s why the psychological skills for children we build in the early years matter so much more than any tuition class …
“My husband absolutely adores our kids — but he has no idea how much he’s actually shaping who they’ll become. Most dads don’t.” That’s something I hear from moms all the time. And honestly? It’s not a criticism. It’s a gap worth closing. If you’re a dad reading this — or a mom who’s going …
A few months back, my 13-year-old started shutting the door. Not in an angry way — just… a normal, this-is-my-space way. And I remember standing outside it the first time thinking, okay, this is the start of something. The cute “mumma tell me a story” years are over, and a whole new phase has begun, …
People often ask me how to raise an emotionally intelligent child, and I never have a neat answer. Last week, my son spent almost an hour building a tower out of his blocks. He kept calling me to come see it, and I kept saying “one minute, beta” because I was finishing a work email. …
