“My son gets so angry the moment I even mention homework. He used to be so sharp and eager, and now he just avoids it completely. Did I do something wrong?” — a message that landed in my inbox last week, from a mother who sounded exhausted and a little guilty. I didn’t reply to …
पिछले हफ्ते मैं और मेरे पति किचन में किसी बात पर थोड़ी तीखी बहस कर रहे थे। अचानक मेरा बेटा दरवाजे पर खड़ा दिखा – चुपचाप, डरी हुई आंखों से हम दोनों को देख रहा था। उस पल मुझे एहसास हुआ कि बच्चों के सामने क्या नहीं करना चाहिए, यह सिर्फ एक पेरेंटिंग टिप नहीं …
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 …
