Author: Pooja Goyal
Every time I take a baby in my arms I get lost in the warmth and the beautiful baby smell, but when I notice the intense gaze I always wonder, ‘What does this baby think ...
Music and mathematics have traditionally inhabited different worlds in our mind space. Music is associated with the ‘arts stream’ – relaxing and good to pursue as a hobby while math is pure science – associated ...
It was a regular scene at the park. A toddler enjoying the swings while her mother tries to help. The toddler insists on resisting all her mother’s well-intentioned efforts to help her learn how to ...
'Originals’ by Adam Grant is not about ‘parenting’ at all. Instead, it explores what it means to be an ‘original’ — to take the road less travelled, to champion a set of novel ideas that go ...
Alison Gopnik, one of the most eminent developmental psychologists, uses a wonderful analogy in the book ‘The Gardener and the Carpenter’ to illuminate the role of a parent. She opines that there are two broad ...
My eight-year daughter was visibly upset about messing up the class quiz in Math. As she threw up her hands in frustration, she declared that she was terrible at Math, and that she would never ...
When I met Ananya a few weeks after she had delivered her baby, her eyes were blood shot, shoulders sagging, and hair dishevelled. I, of course knew that bringing a baby into this world (having ...