School closures, social isolation and continuous use of digital devices have resulted in children suffering vitamin deficiencies; sleep deficit and depression/anxiety disorders, writes Mini P. & Arundhati Nath
The still raging Covid-19 global pandemic has hugely disrupted family, especially children’s, lives adversely affecting their physical and mental well-being. School closures, social isolation and continuous use of […]
Protein is an important building block of bones, muscles, cartilage and skin and helps build and repair body tissue. Soya is an excellent vegetarian source of protein essential for children’s growth and development. Here are three easy-to-make soya-rich recipes for vegetarians and non-vegetarians, writesParvathy Menon
One of the 40 Unesco recognised World Heritage sites in the country, Hampi is evocative of the pomp and glory of the Hindu kingdoms of the pre-Mughal era which has brought visitors from across the seas to marvel and write about it
Virupaksha Temple
A designated Unesco World Heritage Site, Hampi (pop.3,300) — sited in […]
Foil is a literary device which enables readers to appreciate the protagonist’s strengths and virtues through comparison and contrast with a supportive character, writes Roopa Banerjee
PW readers can surely recall at least few movies/books featuring an exceptionally intelligent protagonist who is always accompanied by a person not too smart. For instance, in the popular Hindi […]
PW invited parents of Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad to share their insights on how their children are coping with the school syllabus in the new academic year
Gurukul has given my son Adithyavardhan Shetty (class XI) no reason to believe that syllabus completion will be a challenge this year. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 […]
Screams and laughter carried a long way from a coach of a train bound from Bhopal to Chennai. Twin sisters, Ashwina and Avasha, aged 12, and their cousins Prashant and Arjun, were playing Spelling Bee. Nobody took much notice of Arjun’s four-year-old brother, Rachit. The boys didn’t want a tiny tot in their team. […]
Hey, Guys! Do you love crossword puzzles? Rhymes? Songs? Greeting cards? What do all of them have in common? Words, of course!Though we use words day in and day out, they are never uninteresting. That’s because they communicate all types of thoughts, ideas and feelings, and they always give us food for thought. […]
The scope and possibilities of the emerging science of robotics are vast, spanning space exploration, surgery, automotive industry and the defence services
With blockbuster movies Robot and Ra-One having fired the imagination of Indian youth already hooked on computer games in a big way, robotics is emerging as a glamorous and popular career option.
Dr. Pallavi Rao Chaturvedi, a parenting coach, founder – Get Set Parent, and vice-president, Early Childhood Association of India, answers parents queries:
My three-year-old son speaks in short sentences of only three-four words. At three, he needs to be talking a lot more. Because of the intermittent lockdowns our social interaction with extended […]
With the Covid-19 pandemic having prompted intermittent lockdowns and travel restrictions over the past 16 months, discovering India and the world through physical travel has been denied to most households. Here are some well-written books to introduce children to India and the world’s most popular cities, writes Cynthia John
My five-year-old son often gets skin rashes. I fear that this could be a symptom of some other disease. Could it be chicken pox rash?
— Seetha Balram, Chennai
Chicken pox rash tends to appear on the scalp, face, chest, and proximal limbs. Children suffering chicken pox also report high fever, often touching 103°F. The […]
There’s growing awareness within the parents community that physical fitness apart, sports and games enable children to build character and life skills, writes Mini P
The recently concluded Tokyo Olympics 2020 and India’s unprecedented seven medals haul including a first-ever gold in athletics that attracted over-the-top media and public adulation and big-ticket cash prizes, have aroused […]
The Age newspaper recently highlighted the issue of “helicopter parenting” at universities. The report talked of parents contacting lecturers to ask about their adult children’s grades, sitting in on meetings with course coordinators and repeatedly phoning academics to inquire about students’ progress.
Over-parenting involves parents using developmentally inappropriate tactics that far exceed the actual needs […]
Obstetricians highly recommend pregnant women to include pelvic floor, aka Kegel, exercises in their routines to strengthen pelvic muscles which are highly strained during pregnancy and child birth, writes Anita Bennett
Pregnancy precipitates several bodily changes caused by sudden and dramatic increase in production of estrogen and progesterone hormones. Common symptoms include swelling, fatigue, loosening of […]
ParentsWorld interviewed some of the country’s most knowledgeable educationists and healthcare professionals to advise how best parents can prepare and support children to resume in-person schooling at a time when education institutions and society are obliged to live with the Coronavirus until herd immunity is attained, writes Aurelin Ruth, Mini P. & Cynthia John
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (August) has found that children gained excess body weight during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially those in the five-11 years age group. “When we compared the weight gain among children from 2019 to 2020, we found that there was more weight gained during the pandemic […]
Welcome parenting apps
Thanks for your informative cover story ‘Best parenting apps 2021’ (PW August). There are literally hundreds of parenting apps and it’s very difficult to choose the best. Your curated list of the Top 10 was helpful and refreshing.
In today’s pandemic routine of work from home and online schooling parents are swamped […]
Evidence of the irreparable damage done to children’s education and future livelihoods by the prolonged 63 week pandemic phobia closure of pre-primary, primary and secondary schools countrywide, is assuming mountainous proportions. The latest is a report (August 6) of the parliamentary standing committee on education which forthrightly says that with 70 percent of the country’s […]
Twenty-five students from The Heritage School, Kolkata, had the opportunity to attend the Conclave on Mental Health at the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata on 20th January. .....Read More
The Jharkhand cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, has approved the introduction of computer-based education in government middle schools under the Gyanodya scheme, along .....Read More
