My five-year-old loves eating noodles, pasta and pizza — all of which are made from unhealthy refined flour — and shuns fruits and vegetables. How do I help him develop good food habits?
— Meenakshi Kiran, Bengaluru
You need to make efforts to include locally available nutritious foods in your son’s diet to promote his orderly […]
Did you ever wonder why most fairy tales have an older female villain character? For instance, the wicked stepmother in Cinderella and Snow White. In A Little Mermaid, the sea-witch is an aging woman who yearns for youth and beauty. These characters are examples of a literary device known as motif — a recurrent […]
Mealtimes provide an excellent opportunity for parents to teach children good eating habits such as mindful eating, chewing food well, choosing right mix of healthy foods, and dining etiquette.
Latter-day fast-paced lifestyles constrain parents from paying sufficient attention to family mealtimes. This needs to change because mealtimes provide an excellent opportunity for parents to teach children […]
PW invited parents of Navrachana Higher Secondary School, Vadodara to share their insights on how they help make weekends meaningful for their children
“It’s a given for my children – Yushika (class X) and Adit (class V) – to spend maximum time with us every weekend. Therefore, we carefully plan small trips close to nature. On […]
PW invited parents of Gurukul the School, Ghaziabad to share their insights on how they encourage their preschoolers to become independent in action and thinking
“We allow our son Shravil (prenursery) to complete simple tasks on his own like brushing his hair or eating meals by himself. To promote independent thinking, we ask him open-ended questions […]
Authoritarian parents insist on children following hard and fast rules based on the ‘because I say so’, philosophy. Permissive parents give their children great latitude to choose what they want to do and tend to fudge discipline issues.
Progressive parents balance the need for rules and regulation with encouraging freedom combined with responsibility, Take this quiz […]
I seriously believe I have a very gifted eight-year-old child. She’s amazing at painting, craft and clay modelling. I feel her school’s art education and the hobby classes she attends are not helping her develop her potential to the fullest — R.K, Pune
It’s wonderful to be able to spot a gifted child early. Helping her […]
How often we wonder if the young generation truly understand the struggles of people in pre-independence India!
Here’s an activity to help your children understand how one man with a fistful of salt changed the course of history. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi decided to give the British a taste of his unique brand of satyagraha. And […]
Described as the king of Indian street food, chaats are all-time favourite snacks. Here are three chaat recipes you can rustle up at home!: writes Khushboo Nehaal Jashnani
Pav bhaji (4 servings)
Ingredients
• 8-10 pieces pav bread
• 2 potatoes
• 3 tomatoes
• ½ capsicum
• ½ cup peas
• 1 large onion
• […]
A desire to check out whether the God’s own country hype which attracted 15 million tourists last year is warranted, prompted a short investigative tour of the better northern half of the state
Within a continent-sized nation which despite its rich heritage of ancient cultural monuments and natural attractions draws a mere 7.24 million foreign […]
My daughter (8) often wakes up in the night complaining of nightmares. We’ve tried consoling her, but she gets very distressed. How can we help her cope with recurring nightmares?
— Disha Patel, Ahmedabad
Dreams are a natural component of sleep, and sometimes they can be unsettling. Addressing nightmares in children is critical […]
Mansi Zaveri is Founder & CEO of kidsstoppress.com, a parenting and child care online platform with a digital reach of 10 million per month. She also hosts India’s first parenting original podcast on Jio Saavn. Her debut book, The Parents I Met, is an anthology of her conversations with parents of […]
It is almost a year since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, fuelling great excitement as well as concern about what it might mean for education.
The changes keep coming. Earlier in the year, MyAI was embedded into social media platform Snapchat. This is a chatbot powered by ChatGPT, which encourages […]
With offshore oil exploration and production set to intensify, a huge demand for deep sea divers, who inspect, maintain and repair sub-sea installations, is on the cards
The workplace is deep underwater; the hours long requiring hanging by an umbilical cord-like link which supplies life-giving oxygen, and a connection with the world above. That’s perhaps why […]
– Dr. Saurabh Khanna is a neonatologist and paediatrician with over 15 years’ experience, and lead consultant, Pediatrics and Neonatology, CK Birla Hospital, Gurugram
An oft-repeated complaint of parents is that their toddler tends to fall ill frequently. This could be because of exposure to ailing children in preschool or low immunity […]
Combine mindfulness with exercise for happier 2024
Lifestyle habits that focus on both physical and mental health are effective in lifting mood and improving overall well-being, says a study published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity (December). Researchers of the University of Bath reviewed research studies to highlight that combining mindfulness practice with […]
Timely & useful advice
Your Health and Nutrition column (PW December) ‘Protecting children from air pollution’ was timely and informative. With the onset of winter, children in major cities are being exposed to high levels of toxic air pollution which is causing respiratory infections and other health problems. Pulmonologist Dr. Ganesh Pratap’s preventive measures were […]
To say that the world — India included — is facing an unprecedented environment destruction crisis is an understatement. Climate change, air pollution, deforestation, water and food insecurity, melting ice caps, rising sea levels and global warming are gradually despoiling the life supportive ecology of Planet Earth — and threatening the survival of humankind, and […]
For parents, the possibility of a school massacre, a bomb blast in the city and sexual abuse in schools is a nightmarish prospect. What we don’t often dwell upon is how insecure such incidents make our children. With television and newspapers headlining horrific incidents, their hyperactive imaginations can go into overdrive.
There’s a rising consensus among educators and green activists that it’s also important for families and households to adopt sustainable living practices to protect the next generation from the impending environmental disaster that’s looming ahead writes Kiran Balimane, Mini P. & Cynthia John
At the COP28 Meeting — the 28th United Nations (UN) climate meeting — […]
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