How to Create a Nourishing Space for Children to Learn and Grow

One of the most beautiful gifts that Goa (on the West coast of India) bestows on its inhabitants is space- … More

Let children see the good and bad in you

As parents point children to see not just the good in you but the bad in you. Don’t make it look … More

Being a girl child in India

The Indian constitution today treats women and men alike and bestows upon them the same rights and duties. There are … More

From Learning to Knowing

With children, we normally associate ‘learning’ to represent all activities of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, attitudes, and … More

On Children

A century ago, in a war-torn world, the Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote Prophet in 1923. In … More

Trust a better guide than belief

I define ‘trust’ here as a process of reaching a firm judgement that something is true. This is one of … More

Using beliefs as means rather than end

Most of us are products of societal learning and conditioning. Based on the communities and traditions that we have been … More

Do we really love our children?

Let’s us prepare them for the world and not prepare a world for them.

How do you measure the success of Parenting?

By far the biggest investment of one’s lifetime is parenting a child. It is an investment which takes 25-30 years of committed labour, love and resources to show signs of maturity.

11 Values to value by age 11

Here is a curated list of the eleven most important values that I would like my daughter to appreciate by … More