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While parents focus on increasing their kids IQ, it is the EQ of their children that defines their performance as genius, smart or average… Emotional quotient or EQ is now recognized to be as important as IQ. And so care givers and educators must understand how emotional development in children can be enhanced. It is…
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Every community and religion have their own festivals and celebrations. Each festival has its own distinct flavour and customs. India being such a vast and varied country we are infact lucky that we get to celebrate not only one or two but many festivals and of course we also get the holidays for each festival! …
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Have you wondered why we, the female of the species talk so much? Well, there is an evolutionary reason for this, the human baby needs the stimulus of language to connect the neurons in the brain. The window for language development is in the first few years and since the mother is the primary caregiver…
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Anxiety means to be anxious about something, severe, regular anxiety can lead to stress and prolonged stress can lead to depression and other problems. There are three broad stages in a child’s life (Rudolf Steiner) infancy, childhood and adolescence. So let see how each stage is affected by anxiety and stress In infancy the first…
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Call them by any name- Tantrums, Meltdowns- they only mean one thing to parents – stress! Kids between the ages of 18 months to 4 years usually have temper tantrums because they are coping, yes coping, coping with their lack of language skills as they are able to experience and understand their needs but are…
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How does a 6 year old realise that his mom’s clothes are not up to the mark for a birthday party? What makes a 9 year old feel embarrassed about his father’s grey hair? Is it that children are image conscious or is their overexposure to media making them so? If you read on child…
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Every child should have a life full of colour, lots of colours, each colour of the rainbow, so that the child gets an enriched experience of happiness, joy, celebrations, health and festivities. There will be many colourful occasions to share togetherness and love with our children. search for these occasions, gift children every colour in…
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Food is not just the energy for the body but for the brain too. In this new age world words like , ‘fitness’, ‘diet food’, ‘fat free’, ‘sugar free’, are actually dangerous because these words just ‘exchange the poison’. So we have fitness freaks that are constantly in an ‘air conditioned’ gym, gulping protein shakes…
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Attachment is what defines our emotional and behavioral system; our attachments are what define long term emotional ties with others. Our emotional attachments keep us emotionally healthy and lead to our overall emotional and social well being. Young children have two significant behaviors in the early years- attachment and exploration. I use the term ‘seek…
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In today’s world teachers and mothers need to be leaders and not bosses. In Piaget’s words they must work for the goal of ‘autonomy’ (intelligent and ethical decision making) rather than obedience. There should be no such thing as ‘discipline’; it should be behavior management or modification. Discipline, is fixed, like in the army, but…
