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Apr 19, 2012 
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Posted in Igenius Parent, Parenting, Uncategorized, Wholesome Development
Summer vacations! It’s a time that is filled with mixed emotions for any family – excitement for your child and anxiety for you, the parent! After all what can be worse than having a bored youngster at hand for a whole one and a half months? Yes, there are the jaunts to the park and
Jan 10, 2012 1 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
The famous African adage, “It takes a village to raise a child” couldn’t have been closer to the truth. Just one look at your child’s life indicates the number of people who influence his or her life on a daily basis. Of course parents play a major role in their child’s life, especially in the
Dec 29, 2011 4 Comments Posted in Parenting
It’s that time of the year again, when everyone around is in a celebratory mood. Our household is no different. We too have swung into celebration mode with dinner parties this weekend before the New Year kicks in. In one such dinner party, where we had invited a few of our friends with their children,
Dec 23, 2011 0 Comments Posted in Contests and Events, News And Discussions, Parenting
The festivity in the air is hard to miss, with Christmas less than a couple of days away! Just one look at the newspapers and you are flooded with options on how you can celebrate Christmas, right from parties to attend, to events, galas and fests. Even the neighborhood shopping complexes and malls are dressed
Dec 22, 2011 0 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
I want to begin this blog by relating an incident that took place a few months back. As usual, I picked up my son after school, and since he was famished, bought him a pack of chips for the drive back home. As we slowed down at a signal crossing, he looked out the window,
Nov 4, 2011 7 Comments Posted in Igenius Parent
I am a teacher and this profession has been my passion from the past 15 years. My son Shayon is 19 years old and studies at the same school I teach at. My experience as a teacher has helped me understand that he is an average student, capable of securing 60-70 per cent and this
Oct 18, 2011 10 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
Just fresh from sharing my thoughts in a blog on the importance of emotional intelligence, I found it difficult to resist a colleague’s sarcastic remark to another, about how she was being ‘a baby’ in expressing her grief through tears, about not having done enough for a client who had terminated his services with our
Oct 15, 2011 1 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
The other day as I saw two of my colleagues have a go at each other for the nth time, and that too over a trivial issue, it really got me thinking! Both these colleagues I work with are brilliant in what they do and yet they often display complete apathy for each other and
Oct 8, 2011 1 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
Bullying has become a problem of increasing concern in recent times. It is a big part of growing up and there is enough research to show that bullying can seriously affect a child’s life, impacting his or her emotional and interpersonal functioning as well as causing changes in the way the child perceives, interprets and
Sep 30, 2011 2 Comments Posted in Parenting, Wholesome Development
Just the other day, my son and I were flipping through channels on the television so that we decide on what cartoon film he wanted to watch, and agree to finish his lunch (it was a deal struck to finish some veggies in the plate) and he came across the famous detergent advertisement, where a
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