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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
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
Sep 16, 2011 1 Comments Posted in Parenting
Just like any other parent, when summer approached this year, I was scanning through the numerous classes and activity camps that my 4-year-old son could join and enjoy. Little did I know then, that a simple class could be the beginning of a special journey, both for me and him. You see, at the beginning
Aug 12, 2011 0 Comments Posted in Igenius Parent, Parenting
When we talk of Parent child friendship, how many of us parents are helping our children enter a virtual world? After a certain amount of time they would fancy spending their time separately with their technology partner. Technology is being used to engage children either to enhance creativity or merely keep them busy. The world
Aug 12, 2011 2 Comments Posted in Wholesome Development
When I was around 10 years old, we moved cities, and while I was excited to live in this new place, have my own room, and enjoy the amenities available at this new society, my biggest fear was loneliness. And justly so! Making friends is perhaps one of the most challenging things that happen in
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