Tag: Parent toolkit life
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 ...