Talking to Your Child while He or She Is Sleeping! What are Brainwaves?Electroencephalography (EEG) is the study of the changing electrical potential of the brain. The apparatus used to measure the electric potential of the brain is called an electroencephalograph, and the tracing or the printout of the measured brainwave forms is an electroencephalogram.Frequency is [...]
Hyperactive Children A lot of parents, in fact, I would say, most parents, are so concerned about their child that they use the term ‘hyperactive’ so very casually to describe their children. “My child is hyperactive” is a refrain we hear every so often. Actually, the first step is to stop referring to the child as [...]
Capacity of Human Brain – Part 2 TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE As explained in the book, The Learning Revolution, by Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos, “Each of us has a preferred learning style and a preferred working style. Some of us are mainly visual learners: we like to see pictures or diagrams. Others are auditory learners: [...]
Capacity of Human Brain – Part 1 Most parents in the world do not give much importance to the first few years of their child’s life. The first few years, to be more precise, the first 6 years of your child’s life are the most essential and the most formative years with respect to all [...]
Self-Esteem of your child What is self-esteem?A child has either high self-esteem or low self-esteem. Self-esteem is what the child thinks about himself subconsciously. Self-esteem is the ‘self-talk’ going on in the child subconsciously (without him or her knowing about it). What is the inner voice telling the child? It can be positive (‘anything is [...]
Movies and Your Child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child Is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). I shared in the previous chapter that a parent needs to have awareness about the kind of music he or she exposes the child to. The same way, the parent needs to have awareness about the movies [...]
Increasing Your Child’s Imagination Article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). As discussed earlier, art as a form of expression is the easiest and surest way to increase your child’s imagination. As he imagines, he visualises, and as he visualises, he expresses (i.e., paints). The moment his [...]
Music and your Child Excerpts from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent!’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek).Music can do in minutes what weeks of meditative practice strives towards. Colin RoseMusic is one of the most beautiful ways of expression. It brings one into a state of relaxed alertness. Music must necessarily be an integral [...]
Discipline and your Child An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). Before we understand the concept of ‘discipline’, we should understand the concept of ‘conditioning’. We normally subject our children to three major types of conditioning: Social Conditioning Religious Conditioning Gender Conditioning Social conditioning Consider [...]
What is Education? An article from the book ‘Your Child is Your Parent’ by Manoj J Lekhi (Amrut Vivek). The dictionary meaning of education is ‘to know and to impart’, but ‘to know what?’ is a question we must ask ourselves. Does our education system really teach us to go beyond the routine? Does it [...]
