What can be the most cherishing sight for a mother? The smile on her child’s lips undoubtedly. But, what about working mothers, who are passionately committed to career development as well? Why, the same bewitching smile. Now, there’s a little-overlooked reality, especially about working mothers. Hopelessly compelled to divide their time between unavoidable work and precious family, working mothers become self-acknowledged survivors of guilt and stress.Continue reading
Stay‑at‑home Moms vs. Working Moms: Which One is Harder
A not so frequent advertisement on television hints at a very pertinent fact; the initial guilt-stricken conscience of a working mom on leaving her reluctant toddler at a dare care center, is shown to easily subside on the assurance of unlimited care provided by their proclaimed product. Rather high and mighty! Now, let’s try to imagine the probable responses of our two types of moms:Continue reading
How to Get Kids to Do Chores: A Peep into the Ways
In Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” although little Tom’s thankless job of whitewashing the fence is an unpleasant punishment, yet, it is his ingenious manner of making the work irresistibly attractive that makes his initially reluctant friends finally beg and plead him to hand over the same task to them.Continue reading
Aggression in Children: Analyzing the Agony and Finding Solutions
The uproar concerning the unexpected death of thirteen-year-old James was palpable. The demand for transparent investigation was monumental. However, mass memory is transient, and soon James would survive only in discarded newspaper articles. But what about the fatal trait that had driven the boy to be unabashedly reckless with such a vital entity called life? Aggression, discernable in almost all the activities of the child, had been the very crucible of his death. But the fallacy had not been momentous; it had proliferated like a deadly virus, finally rendering its victim powerless before its sway.Continue reading
Blended Family Problems: Pursuing the Means of Resolution
It is a truth seldom universally acknowledged that some relations best survive apart. Not quite clear? Imagine yourself taking fancy towards nurturing a harmless cat and your mother incurs diphtheria. Blended families suffer pretty much the same predicament. In major cases, middle-aged couples no doubt bring with them years of accumulated maturity; but there also drags with them mostly uninvited, the progeny of past relations. And it is this undiluted heterogeneous mixture that pops up recurrent hiccups of open resentment, aggression, and palpable foreboding that become rigidly nonresponsive to diverse parenting medications.Continue reading
Talking Back: The Tormenting Tool of Kids
It was tough for habitually timid Poly to cope up with the interminable, seemingly illogical repartees of her 9-year-old son. There would initially be patient coaxing, cajoling and even promised extravaganzas; yet it would invariably end up in a cockfight between the two with the despot vociferously reigning supreme.Continue reading
Confused Mummy: I Hate My Kids
When Charlotte Yorks confides in Miranda Hobbes in the movie Sex and the City regarding her guilty conscience for feeling acutely frustrated with her twin daughters, we instantly catch a glimpse of the unfortunate mother caught amidst the confusing web of natural motherly affection and a repelling surge of discontent.Continue reading
Defiant Child: How to Deal with the Difficulties
Rummaging through the pages of history, one won’t fail to notice that majority of the world’s greatest achievers were essentially strong willed. Jesus Christ rebelled against Roman supremacy and was mercilessly crucified for holding on to his stand of one God; later down the ages, while one marvels at the revolutionary feat of Darwin that unsettled man’s primitive ideas about existence, it again reaffirms Darwin’s indomitable spirit.Continue reading
Of Lying Kids and Their Lies
When was the first time you lied in childhood? Were you rebuked? Did the scolding succeed in arousing your sleeping conscience? Or did you shrug off the incident as petty and hurl it into a perpetually abandoned region of the mind? Anything is possible, but the indifference in the latter would probably promote the habit to germinate, feeding on the attitude of lethargy, misguidance, clinging on to it, polluting it, devouring the better impulses and finally bursting forth in the form of a great irreparable flaw.Continue reading
Disrespectful Children: A Growing Malady
There were beads of perspiration on her forehead; she felt nervous and then there was a searing pain in her lower abdomen. Deft hands worked fast and after what seemed like an eternity, she heard the cry, shrill, loud and yet pleasing, long awaited. Her son had been born!!Continue reading