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Every morning melodious number rhyme sweetened our little home. "One, two, three ....seven mangoes.....interruption...mummy clap".Every day my toddler headed straight from bed to balcony to count the number of mangoes hanging in a nearby mango tree and was so contented to see the count increasing as the summers advanced. This was his daily pattern until one day when out of his habit he ran to the balcony and found no tree. "It is gone" he cried. I followed his footsteps only to find that the tree had been axed. It was equally difficult to control an inconsolable child and sight of fallen branches kissing the deserted roadside. "One, two, three.....". These words echoed in my ears for days. The events that followed - people showing solidarity to protect trees from being axed in Delhi, a  meet in Kolkata on awareness of widespread environmental degradation in megapolises, the concerns to improve the urban living standards by adopting eco-friendly, green ar...

Stress management is a pre-preparation of mind and body in response to various challenges in everyday life. A little stress is healthy and motivational to cope with a situation or finish our work timely but too much stress harms our body. In the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in the number of crimes by juveniles and suicide cases by school students. The reasons being either exam phobia or lower percentage in exams or  comparison with others in peer-group or  inability to cope with a family crisis or  violent video games etc. How to manage stress? The children are easily falling prey to negative thoughts, extreme sadness and anger.  This is alarming !! Kids might not understand that what haunts them are stress and anxiety and taking revenge or ending their life is no remedy. The only solution is to trick one's mind and checkmate stress. DESTRESS Reasons for stress in preteens Performance in school and acquiring good grades in ...

In dictionary language "counselling" is advice by an expert about a particular problem. During some of the other phase of life, there is a time when kids need counselling and parents often consult specialists to handle the situation. The question arises Can parents counsel their child themselves?/"How can I counsel my child?"  Are we competent enough to deal with the issues bothering our child?  Though we may not be expert in each and every matter we are the first teachers of our child and who knows our child more than we do. We as parents can be the first counsellors. Nevertheless, counsellors are highly trained  people  and well equipped with updated techniques but as parents, we can give first try to counsel our child unless the situation is alarming . How can I counsel my child?  How can I counsel my child ?   The phrase "my child" is significant because it is difficult to counsel our kids as they are familiar to us. They may be hesitant to open...

Adventure sports are physical activity full of excitement, thrill and entertainment although involving lots of physical risks. As a toddler, a child uses motor skills to jump, run and hop. Parents encourage him/her to explore the outdoors-the playground. In preteens, these activities are replaced by sports like cycling, swimming, skating, hockey, football, cricket. These physical activities: strengthen muscles and bones, boost the immune system, improve overall health enhance school performance The purpose is learning and entertainment through fun but as a child grows up to adolescence, focus shifts to other things like studies or screen time. The daily physical activities reduce or become monotonous because there is no adventure associated with them. In teens, children are full of energy and enter a phase of self-discovery. They are ready to learn new things but search thrill and excitement in whatever they do. That is why this is the optimum phase to introduce them to ad...

Yummylicious redefined is a newly propounded term by mother chefs. To make their fussy kids eat at home moms continue experimenting new delicacies with the traditional ingredients to maintain optimum nutrition in the diet. The preparation of these dishes has been more visually appealing to attract kids to the home kitchen and healthy eating rather than opting for restaurant foods. Innovations required for optimum nutrition/Yummylicious redefined understanding the taste of a child involving him/her in shopping planning how he/she can help in the kitchen assigning tasks in the kitchen to keep up the level of excitement asking for kid's suggestions if any let him/her take the lead in final serving enjoying the recipe with the whole family Yummylicious redefined What purpose will innovation serve? mother will be happy that the child has accepted home-cooked food-her goal accomplished,  the kid will appreciate home-cooked food and accept the fact that restaurant f...

Behavioural abnormality in kids cannot be measured. In one of the colouring events, I accompanied my kids, I was mesmerised with the colourful imagination of people. One young girl was painting the complexities of the brain so minutely that my attention was completely drawn towards her painting. Suddenly something crossed my eyes. Before I could understand what interrupted my undiverted attention, one of the guardians started scolding a child while a woman was repeatedly sorry for the behaviour of her kid. Out of curiosity, I peeped into the conversation. A boy of 8 yrs threw a painting brush on a toddler which hit him on his forehead. Due to the intervention of other parents, the matter was wrapped up quickly and the event resumed its character. But the mother of the boy was so upset that she left the place with her child in haste. I was closely watching the behaviour of mother and boy. As the event progressed nobody cared about that soon forgotten incident but being a paren...